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Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1866,  by 

HENRY  HARRISSE, 

In  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the   Northern 
District  of  New  York. 


BRADSTREET   PRESS,   NEW  YOKK. 


SAMUEL   L.   M.   BARLOW 

OF  NEW  YORK 

THIS  WORK,  UNDERTAKEN   AT   HIS  SUGGESTION, 

IS  DEDICATED  BY  HIS  FRIEND 

HENRY  HARRISSE 


INTRODUCTION 


INTRODUCTION. 


Artts  etfcientitf  confiftunt  in  libris,  quorum 
emolumenta  nulla  metis  fufficcrtt  enarrarc. 

R.  DE  BURY,  Philobiblion,  cap.  xv. 


I. 


HE  abnegation  practiced  by  true  scholars  in  every 
branch  of  knowledge  is  one  of  the  most  interest 
ing  and  striking  features  of  the  age  in  which  we 
live.  With  the  recognition — daily  more  and  more 
absolute — of  the  inter-dependence  of  the  sciences, 
this  abnegation  has  come  to  be  the  test  of  scholastic  worth  and 
loyalty. 

As  Herbert  Spencer  admirably  expresses  it,  every  single  fact 
of  observation  and  discovery  now  has  u  to  be  digested  by  the 
organism  of  the  sciences"  ere  it  can  be  made  available  for  the 
development  of  the  work  to  which  its  special  discoverer  or 
observer  may  give  the  glory  and  strength  of  his  life.  And 
hence  we  see,  and  see  with  a  just  pride  in  the  intellectual  eleva 
tion  of  our  epoch,  the  scholars  and  students  of  the  world  practice 
a  degree  of  self-denial  hitherto  most  uncommon,  revere  a  reli 
gion  of  science  which  teaches  us  that  we  are  all  "  members 
one  of  another,"  and  cause  studies  apparently  the  most  dissimilar 
in  their  scope  and  objects  to  converge  upon  the  genesis  of  a 
general  science,  not  yet  perfected,  but  wherein  all  scientific  ele- 

A 


ii  Introduction. 

ments  may  one  day  find  their  absolute  connection,  and  assume 
a  true  philosophical  character. 

In  this  praiseworthy  communion,  it  becomes  as  practicable  as 
it  is  necessary  at  once  to  subdivide  every  field  of  inquiry,  and  to 
unite  and  concentrate  all  separate  efforts  upon  investigations  of 
a  positive  kind.  Nor  less  by  it  is  every  teacher  and  student 
strengthened  to  resist  the  fatal  seductions  of  that  inner  voice  which 
is  forever  lifting  itself  rebelliously  against  the  limits  imposed 
upon  human  knowledge  by  human  nature,  and  forever  prompting 
hypotheses  which  really  minister  only  to  individual  vanity  and 
weakness,  while  they  delay  the  genuine  advance  of  learning. 

To  accept  and  exercise  this  virtue  of  our  age  is,  it  must  be 
confessed,  comparatively  easy.  For  while  every  day  opens  new 
horizons  to  our  gaze,  the  very  basis  upon  which  we  strive  to 
build  our  systems  and  erect  our  hypotheses  is  perpetually  giving 
way  under  that  incessant  accumulation  of  materials  which  re 
sults  in  every  direction  of  inquiry  from  the  increasingly  active 
consensus  of  all  the  sciences.  Nevertheless,  let  all  fit  honor  be 
paid  to  those  who  practice  this  virtue,  who  control  the  constant 
aspirations  of  the  mind  after  the  unknowable,  who  select  for 
themselves  a  sphere  of  modest  labor,  and  who  give  to  the  ex 
haustive  investigation  of  a  single  class  or  order  of  facts  all  their 
talents,  their  time  and  their  energy. 

Not,  indeed,  that  we  fully  share  the  dazzling  hopes  enter 
tained  by  so  many  earnest  inquirers,  especially  in  that  vast  field 
of  historical  studies,  one  secondary  section  of  which  we  have 
made  it  our  duty  to  till,  with  what  results  this  volume  must 
attest.  It  seems  to  us,  for  instance,  over-bold  to  assert  that  we 
shall  ever  find  in  historical  facts,  when  accumulated  and  ana 
lyzed,  a  new  latent  power  adequate  to  bring  forth  a  science 
which  shall  unfold  the  universal  force  always  present,  active  and 
supreme,  in  the  history  of  humanity,  and  shall  exhibit,  through  the 
medium  of  historical  similitudes,  a  progressive  march  of  mankind 
toward  a  necessary  end — no  longer  undefined  and  mysterious. 


Introduction.  Hi 

i 

But  even  if  we  are  required  to  abandon  the  hope  of  so 
surpassing  a  result  of  our  patience  and  our  perseverance,  noble 
prizes  still  remain  to  be  won.  A  clearer  understanding  of  the 
secret  workings  of  human  nature,  a  juster  and  a  wiser  appre 
ciation  of  the  disparity  which  exists  between  our  mental  powers 
and  the  most  imposing  of  the  problems  which  mankind  so  pas 
sionately  yearns  to  solve,  may  compel  us  to  put  aside,  and  for 
years  to  come,  all  questions  which  concern  primary  and  final 
causes.  But  there  will  yet  be  left  to  us  crucial  problems  worthy 
of  the  loftiest  intellect,  lying  incontestably  within  the  grasp  of 
the  human  mind,  fraught  with  great  teachings,  and  fit  to  engage 
in  their  solution  the  united  efforts  of  all  men  truly  devoted  to 
scientific  studies. 

Pascal  says  that1  "non  seulement  chacun  des  hommes  s'avance 
de  jour  en  jour  dans  les  sciences,  mais  tous  les  hommes  ensemble 
y  font  un  continuel  progres,  a  mesure  que  1'univers  vieillit." 
This  proposition  implies  a  progress  already  achieved.  Let  the 
historian,  then,  describe  this  curious  and  necessary  evolution  in 
the  history  of  man — not  by  hypothetical  generalities,  but  by  the 
light  of  well-ascertained  facts,  and  in  the  real  order  of  succession. 

O  7 

The  march  of  mankind,  from  Engis2  to  Athens,  is  surely  exten 
sive  enough  to  satisfy  the  most  ambitious  inquirer  !  This  prog 
ress  seems  to  involve  a  development  in  accordance  with  ascer- 
tainable  laws.  It  is  the  province  of  the  historian  to  set  forth 
the  premises  from  which  these  laws  can  be  deduced  and  demon 
strated.  Such  a  development  must  have  necessarily  taken  place 
in  forms  varied  and  multifarious,  running  sometimes  parallel, 
though  with  unequal  rapidity.  The  historian  may  show  its 
starting-points,  land-marks  and  resting-places,  its  divergences 
and  its  return  to  homogeneity ;  he  may  assay  for  us  the  modicum 
of  truth  which  underlies  our  sternest  beliefs,  and  rivet  anew  the 
links  of  a  chain  disconnected  by  ignorance  or  superstition. 

1  Preface  sur  k  Traitedu  Vide,  in  Pensees,  »  Vide  the  late  works  of  HUXLEY  and 
Fragments,  &c.,  de  Pascal, publics  par  M.  P.  LYELL,  and  especially  the  lectures  deliv- 
FAUGERE;  Paris,  1844,  8vo,  Vol.  i,  p.  98.  ered  by  VOGT  in  1862-4. 


ii  Introduction. 

ments  may  one  day  find  their  absolute  connection,  and  assume 
a  true  philosophical  character. 

In  this  praiseworthy  communion,  it  becomes  as  practicable  as 
it  is  necessary  at  once  to  subdivide  every  field  of  inquiry,  and  to 
unite  and  concentrate  all  separate  efforts  upon  investigations  of 
a  positive  kind.  Nor  less  by  it  is  every  teacher  and  student 
strengthened  to  resist  the  fatal  seductions  of  that  inner  voice  which 
is  forever  lifting  itself  rebelliously  against  the  limits  imposed 
upon  human  knowledge  by  human  nature,  and  forever  prompting 
hypotheses  which  really  minister  only  to  individual  vanity  and 
weakness,  while  they  delay  the  genuine  advance  of  learning. 

To  accept  and  exercise  this  virtue  of  our  age  is,  it  must  be 
confessed,  comparatively  easy.  For  while  every  day  opens  new 
horizons  to  our  gaze,  the  very  basis  upon  which  we  strive  to 
build  our  systems  and  erect  our  hypotheses  is  perpetually  giving 
way  under  that  incessant  accumulation  of  materials  which  re 
sults  in  every  direction  of  inquiry  from  the  increasingly  active 
consensus  of  all  the  sciences.  Nevertheless,  let  all  fit  honor  be 
paid  to  those  who  practice  this  virtue,  who  control  the  constant 
aspirations  of  the  mind  after  the  unknowable,  who  select  for 
themselves  a  sphere  of  modest  labor,  and  who  give  to  the  ex 
haustive  investigation  of  a  single  class  or  order  of  facts  all  their 
talents,  their  time  and  their  energy. 

Not,  indeed,  that  we  fully  share  the  dazzling  hopes  enter 
tained  by  so  many  earnest  inquirers,  especially  in  that  vast  field 
of  historical  studies,  one  secondary  section  of  which  we  have 
made  it  our  duty  to  till,  with  what  results  this  volume  must 
attest.  It  seems  to  us,  for  instance,  over-bold  to  assert  that  we 
shall  ever  find  in  historical  facts,  when  accumulated  and  ana 
lyzed,  a  new  latent  power  adequate  to  bring  forth  a  science 
which  shall  unfold  the  universal  force  always  present,  active  and 
supreme,  in  the  history  of  humanity,  and  shall  exhibit,  through  the 
medium  of  historical  similitudes,  a  progressive  march  of  mankind 
toward  a  necessary  end — no  longer  undefined  and  mysterious. 


Introduction.  in 

• 

But  even  if  we  are  required  to  abandon  the  hope  of  so 
surpassing  a  result  of  our  patience  and  our  perseverance,  noble 
prizes  still  remain  to  be  won.  A  clearer  understanding  of  the 
secret  workings  of  human  nature,  a  juster  and  a  wiser  appre 
ciation  of  the  disparity  which  exists  between  our  mental  powers 
and  the  most  imposing  of  the  problems  which  mankind  so  pas 
sionately  yearns  to  solve,  may  compel  us  to  put  aside,  and  for 
years  to  come,  all  questions  which  concern  primary  and  final 
causes.  But  there  will  yet  be  left  to  us  crucial  problems  worthy 
of  the  loftiest  intellect,  lying  incontestably  within  the  grasp  of 
the  human  mind,  fraught  with  great  teachings,  and  fit  to  engage 
in  their  solution  the  united  efforts  of  all  men  truly  devoted  to 
scientific  studies. 

Pascal  says  that1  "non  seulement  chacun  des  hommes  s'avance 
de  jour  en  jour  dans  les  sciences,  mais  tous  les  hommes  ensemble 
y  font  un  continuel  progres,  a  mesure  que  1'univers  vieillit." 
This  proposition  implies  a  progress  already  achieved.  Let  the 
historian,  then,  describe  this  curious  and  necessary  evolution  in 
the  history  of  man — not  by  hypothetical  generalities,  but  by  the 
light  of  well-ascertained  facts,  and  in  the  real  order  of  succession. 
The  march  of  mankind,  from  Engis2  to  Athens,  is  surely  exten 
sive  enough  to  satisfy  the  most  ambitious  inquirer  !  This  prog 
ress  seems  to  involve  a  development  in  accordance  with  ascer- 
tainable  laws.  It  is  the  province  of  the  historian  to  set  forth 
the  premises  from  which  these  laws  can  be  deduced  and  demon 
strated.  Such  a  development  must  have  necessarily  taken  place 
in  forms  varied  and  multifarious,  running  sometimes  parallel, 
though  with  unequal  rapidity.  The  historian  may  show  its 
starting-points,  land-marks  and  resting-places,  its  divergences 
and  its  return  to  homogeneity ;  he  may  assay  for  us  the  modicum 
of  truth  which  underlies  our  sternest  beliefs,  and  rivet  anew  the 
links  of  a  chain  disconnected  by  ignorance  or  superstition. 

1  Preface  sur  U  Traitedu  Vide,  in  Pcnsets,  «  Vide  the  late  works  of  HUXLEY  and 
Fragments,  &c.,de  Pascal,  publics  far  M.P.  LYELL,  and  especially  the  lectures  deliv- 
FAUGERE;  Paris,  1844,  8vo,  Vol.  i,  p.  98.  ered  by  VOGT  in  1862-4. 


iv  Introduction. 

If  any  important  results  have  already  been  attained  in  studies 
of  this  character,  it  is  due  to  the  subdivision  of  each  and  every 
field  of  inquiry.  But  the  work  of  analysis  must  be  carried  still 
further.  No  subject  should  be  deemed  too  insignificant  to  enlist 
the  entire  attention  of  series  and  successions  of  students  ;  and 
when,  in  consequence,  and  as  the  glorious  reward  of  this  con 
centration  of  labor,  the  subject  so  investigated  again  exhibits  an 
opening  for  a  new  division,  this,  in  its  turn,  must  be  probed  by 
new  men  and  with  adequate  means.  It  is  thus  that  in  the  exact 
and  natural  sciences  such  marvelous  progress  has  been  accom 
plished.  History,  we  know,  is  not  based  upon  the  observation  of 
identical  phenomena,  and  no  one,  therefore,  as  we  have  already 
suggested,  can  hope  to  see  this  science  keep  pace  with  Chemistry, 
Astronomy  or  Natural  Philosophy  ;  but  from  a  union  of  all  the 
pursuits  which  have  the  least  bearing  on  man,  his  past  and  his 
place  in  creation,  we  may  possibly  find  that  several  of  the  ques 
tions  which  have  so  long  exercised  the  ingenuity  of  the  most  acute 
thinkers,  will  eventually  admit  of  a  solution.  And  when  we  con 
sider  these  sciences  philosophically,  we  are  surprised  to  find  how 
easily  they  may  be  connected  with  a  view  to  the  solution  of  such 
questions.  Geology  and  Palaeontology  enable  us  to  see  man  in 
his  first  stage  not  only  of  physical  but  of  intellectual  develop 
ment  ;  Archaeology  brings  to  light  his  earliest  efforts  in  art ; 
Philology  gives  us  the  history  of  his  origin  and  migrations ; 
Literature  reveals  to  us  his  dearest  traditions,  and  the  primitive 
aspirations  of  his  poetical  genius.  But  each  of  these  sciences  is 
in  itself  complex  and  extensive.  Divide  and  subdivide  them  into 
as  many  and  as  minute  sections  as  the  mind  can  conceive, 
and  every  fragment  will  yet  require  the  use  of  all  the  means 
which  we  can  apply  to  the  survey  and  analysis  they  require. 
From  every  such  subdivision,  indeed,  arises  a  new  necessity,  de 
manding  a  still  greater  abnegation ;  for  the  task,  in  proportion  as 
its  field  is  enlarged,  becomes  ever  more  and  more  thankless. 
This  is  eminently  true  in  reference  to  the  study  of  the  mechan- 


Introduction.  v 

ical  means  which  the  votaries  of  these  sciences  must  possess  ;  to 
the  pursuits  of  those  who  devote  themselves  to  devise  and  per 
fect  instruments  to  alleviate  the  efforts  of  synthetic  philosophers 
and  historians ;  to  the  modest  callings  which  aim  at  placing  within 
the  reach  of  others,  whosoever  they  may  be,  appliances  which 
rarely  fail  to  impart  method,  logic  and  precision.  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
is  concerned  with  one  great  class  of  these  appliances,  and  we 
may  be  pardoned,  perhaps,  a  few  words  in  regard  to  the  imme 
diate  bearing  of  this  science  on  the  subject  now  before  us. 


II. 

The  assertion  of  Caspar  Thurmann* :  "  Notitia  librorum  est 
dimidium  studiorum,"  has  not  been  considered  an  exaggeration 
of  the  claims  of  bibliography  by  historians  who  strive  to  elucidate 
facts  in  lieu  of  ventilating  theories  and  reinforcing  opinions.  All 
that  survives  to  us  from  the  past  of  positive  knowledge  has  been 
preserved  in  books  and  manuscripts.  Traditions,  even  among 
semi-barbarous  races,  are  no  longer  intrusted  to  the  memory  of 
those  who  cherish  the  remembrance  of  their  ancestors  and  of 
their  deeds  :  they  find  a  lasting  shrine  in  the  printed  word.  And 
when  we  consider  that  we  have  inherited  at  least  forty  centuries 
of  recorded  facts,  and  that  annals  hitherto  engraved  on  stone  are 
now  transferred  into  books,  which  are  thus  carrying  back  the 
accessible  history  of  man  to  periods  heretofore  shrouded  in  dark 
ness  and  mystery,  it  will  easily  be  admitted  that  he  is  no  trust 
worthy  historian  who  can  seize,  without  a  thrill  of  gratitude,  the 
hand  which  alone  may  lead  him  unerringly  through  so  vast  an 
accumulation  of  materials.  The  science  of  Bibliography  limits 
its  claims  to  this  right  and  duty. 

8  apud  Abbe  RIVE,  Prospectus  fun  ou-  See  also  COTTON  DES  HOUSSAYES'  Dis- 
•vrage  public  par  souscrip tion  ;  Paris,  1782,  course,  in  Bulletin  du  Bibliophile,  No.  II, 
I2mo,  p.  59,  notes.  3d  series,  p.  488. 


vi  Introduction. 

A  bibliography  is  not  necessarily  a  list  of  books  contained  in  a 
certain  library  ;  but  even  when  limited  by  this  modest  definition, 
it  yet  possesses  a  value  which  subsists,  and  is  available,  long  after 
the  books  described  may  have  been  scattered  or  destroyed.  A 
mere  title  frequently  supplies  the  historian  with  the  link  which 
alone  can  impart  a  logical  connection  to  this  work.  This  title 
may  lead  him  to  study  a  book,  which  was  perhaps  unknown  to 
his  predecessors  in  the  same  line  of  investigation,  and  from  this 
study  he  may  often  acquire  a  knowledge  of  certain  facts  which 
shall  cause  him  to  alter  the  entire  plan  of  his  work4.  Viewed, 
indeed,  in  its  proper  light,  a  well-constructed  catalogue  of  books 
is  simply  a  luminous  chronology  of  intellectual  facts,  and  there 
is  no  Bibltotheca  Philosophica  which  does  not  exhibit,  in  a  more 
or  less  striking  degree,  the  history  of  the  human  mind.  But  it  is 
in  the  exact  sciences  that  catalogues  are  fraught  with  their  most 
useful  teachings.  We  see  in  them  at  a  glance  the  attempts  and 
theories,  often  teeming  with  errors,  which  have  paved  the  way 
for  the  discovery  of  those  great  truths  never  to  be  wrung  again 
from  our  grasp.  Do  not  the  quaint  titles  affixed  to  the  works 
of  Lulli,  Paracelsus,  Agricola,  Bruno,  or  Cardan,  give  us  an 
insight  into  that  curious  process  from  which  arose  in  due  time 

4  We  may  here  cite,  as  an  instance  in  a  catalogue  of  modern  books,  which  had 

point,  the  greatest  historical  composition  of  escaped  his  notice,  was  handed  him  by  a 

modern  times,  AUGUSTIN  THIERRY'S    His-  friend.     It  contained  the  title  of  a  work 

toire  de  la  Conquetc  dt  rAnghterre  par  les  which  purported  to  give   a   faithful  tran- 

Normands,     Our  readers  doubtless  recollect  script    of  the   Lambeth   and   Fitz-Stephen 

that  in  this  immortal  work  the  author  de-  manuscript.      This     single    advertisement 

picts  in  vivid  colors  the  history  of  the  van-  was  sufficient  to  destroy  the  entire  frame- 

quished,  and  finds  in  Thomas  a  Becket  the  work    of  Thierry's    History  :    Thomas  a 

personification  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  and  Becket,  the  bold  protector  of  the  Anglo- 

the  champion  of  its  rights  against  the  Nor-  Saxon    race,    was    no    longer    himself  an 

man  dynasty.     The  ninth  chapter  is  con-  Anglo-Saxon,  but   disappeared  in  Thomas 

sidered  the  keystone  of  the  history,  as  it  re-  Bequet,  a  Norman  by  birth  and  parentage  ! 

lates  exclusively  to  the  memorable  struggle  The  discovery  preyed   upon   the   mind   of 

between  Henry  II  and  the  Archbishop  of  Augustin  Thierry  for  years,  but,  prompted 

Canterbury,  who,  to  his  dying  moments,  by  his  love  for  truth,  which  was  dearer  to 

remains    the    champion    of    an    oppressed  him  than  all  his  theories,  he  intended  to 

people.      THIERRY  was    preparing    a    new  remodel  his  History ;  unfortunately  he  died 

edition  of  his   work   for  the   press,  when  without  accomplishing  his  work. 


Introduction.  vii 

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the  only  true  science?     We  grant  that  the  meaning  suggested 

by  a  mere  name  can  only  be  appreciated  by  him  who  brings 
to  its  observation  a  certain  degree  of  knowledge,  which  no 
succinct  catalogue  of  books  can  ever  give  ;  but  a  title,  if  properly 
set  forth,  will  teach  the  reader  at  what  time  it  was  that  a  given 
thought,  now  trite  and  unnoticed,  first  assumed  a  positive  char 
acter.  The  title  repeated  at  a  later  period  shows  a  progress 
accomplished ;  a  succession  of  editions  marks  its  diffusion  ;  the 
controversies  which  follow,  its  importance;  and  accordingly  as 
the  work  which  it  identifies  disappears  altogether  from  subse 
quent  records,  or  maintains  its  place  in  them,  the  student  may, 
by  comparison,  ascertain  to  what  extent  its  influence  continues 
still  to  be  felt. 

Information  of  this  character  may  be  derived  from  a  mere 
list ;  but  when  the  works  are  classified  in  the  order  of  subjects, 
the  divisions  assume  a  philosophical  bearing  of  great  import. 
Our  readers  are  aware  that,  independently  of  the  immediate 
utility  which  arises  from  a  methodical  arrangement,  classifica 
tions  pertain  to  metaphysics.  Aristotle,  Bacon,  D'Alembert, 
Daunou,  Ampere,  have  made  classification  the  object  of  their 
highest  efforts  ;  yet  there  is  no  bibliographer  who  is  not  required 
to  follow  in  their  wake,  and  to  impart  to  the  frame-work  of  a  bib 
liography  the  philosophical  character  which  these  great  thinkers 
failed  to  perfect.  Aldus'  Librl  graci  impressi  may  be  considered 
a  mere  printer's  catalogue,  intended  solely  to  invite  the  public  to 
purchase  his  books  ;  yet,  in  the  primitive  classification  it  sets 
forth,  and  which  is  composed  of  only  five  sections  (Grammatica, 
Poetica,  Logica,  Philosophia,  Sacra  Scriptura)^  we  see  an  evidence 
of  the  necessity  which  forces  itself  upon  every  enlightened  bib 
liographer  to  go  beyond  a  mere  enumeration  or  index.  The 
Pandectarum  of  Conrad  Gesner,  and  the  Tableaux  of  Christofle 
de  Savigny,  which  may  have  served  as  a  model  for  Bacon's 
divisions,  show  that  Bibliography  requires  of  its  votaries  some 
thing  more  than  perseverance  and  attention.  Even  when  these 


Introduction. 

are  the  only  faculties  which  the  bibliographer  can  bring  to  bear 
upon  the  science,  he  is  frequently  interrogated  to  ascertain  who 
was  the  originator  of  an  idea,  the  discoverer  of  a  fact,  or  the 
inventor  of  a  system,  either  in  History,  Literature,  Science  or 
Philosophy ;  and  this  simply  because  his  compilation  gives  an 
exact  date  or  describes  a  book  with  accuracy.  How  many 
popular  traditions  have  been  shown  to  be  erroneous  by  a  single 
reference  to  catalogues  of  this  description5 ! 

But  whether  we  consider  Bibliography  as  an  indispensable 
means  to  explore  the  sources  of  literature  and  of  the  historical 
sciences,  or  as  the  competent  guide  which  leads  conscientious 
critics  to  the  knowledge  of  the  subjects  they  are  called  upon  to 
discuss,  it  is  evident  that  its  sphere  of  usefulness  may  be  greatly 
extended.  There  is  no  reason  why  the  bibliographer  should 
limit  his  efforts  to  a  faithful  transcription  of  titles,  coupled  with 
minute  collations.  He  may,  without  trespassing  upon  the  prov 
ince  of  Belles-Lettres,  give  the  history  of  the  book,  enumerate 
its  contents,  ascertain  its  precise  place  in  the  chronology  of 
literature,  state  the  references  which  mark  its  influence  in  the 
preparation  of  other  works,  quote  the  opinions  expressed  by 
competent  critics,  divulge  its  author  or  editor  when  published 
anonymously,  and,  if  it  be  devoid  of  imprint,  discover  the  date 
at  which,  and  the  place  where,  it  was  printed,  and  by  what 
printer.  He  must,  furthermore,  describe  the  typographical  pecu 
liarities  of  the  book,  the  changes  they  inaugurate,  and  their 
bearing  upon  the  history  of  the  art  of  printing.  Nor  should  he 
neglect  to  group  around  each  title  the  data  which  may  enable 

6  "Quand  on  saura  que  le  Don  <%uicAottc  d'oeuvres  de  PAngleterre,  on  n'accusera  plus 

a  eu  cinq  editions  1'annee  meme  qui  le  vit  les    contemporains    de   Cervantes,   de  Ca- 

paraitre ;  que  le  poeme  des  Lusiades,  quoi-  moens  et  de  Shakspeare,  d'avoir  meconnu 

que  ecrit  en  une  langue  d'un  usage  tres-  le  merite  de  ces  grands  hommes,  et  1'on 

limite,   a  eu  deux    editions   dans   sa   nou-  reconnaitra  que  1'absence  de  lois  veritable- 

veaute,   et  une  troisieme  quelques  annees  ment  protectrices  de  la  propriete  litteraire 

apres ;    quand   on    aura   remarque  que    la  a  ete,  sinon  la  seule,  du  moins  la  principale 

presse  anglaise  a  frequemment  reproduit  du  cause  de  la  misere  dans  laquelle  les  deux 

vivant  de  leur  illustre  auteur,   1'Hamlet,  premiers    ont    vecu." — BRUNET,    Manuel, 

POthello,  le   Romeo,  et  les  autres  chefs-  Introduction,  p.  xix. 


Introduction.  ix 

critics  to  correct  errors  and  to  elucidate  every  point  in  contro 
versy.  As  the  reader  will  perceive,  these  requirements  seem  to 
imply  that  a  perfect  bibliographer  should  be  so  gifted  as  to  be 
able  to  concentrate  upon  his  investigations  the  multifarious 
labors  of  a  Mabillon,  an  Audiffredi,  a  Bayle  and  a  Mylius. 
Yet,  it  is  a  question  with  us,  whether  bibliographers  are  entitled 
to  express  any  opinion  of  their  own,  or  to  decide  a  single  ques 
tion  beyond  the  matters  connected  with  what  we  may  call  the 
external  characteristics  of  the  book.  They  are  only  expected 
to  furnish  critics  with  sources  of  information,  and  to  trace  to 
the  fountain-heads  all  current  statements,  whether  true  or  erro 
neous,  concerning  the  subjects  of  their  study.  The  task  of 
extracting  from  the  materials  thus  supplied  the  synthesis  re 
quired,  devolves  exclusively  upon  the  historian.  Bibliography 
thus  understood,  it  will  be  seen,  assumes  an  encycloposdical 
character,  which  we  deem  necessary  to  bring  the  science  in 
closer  connection  with  historical  studies. 

We  are  aware  that  to  limit  the  province  of  bibliographers 
to  labors  so  arid  and  uninviting,  is  to  thrust  out  of  the  career 
many  inquisitive  scholars  who  are  willing  to  make  strenuous 
exertions  for  the  benefit  of  collateral  branches  of  knowledge, 
but  who  cannot  easily  bring  themselves  to  abdicate  their  right 
of  judging  and  deciding.  Yet  it  should  surely  be  considered  a 
meritorious  occupation  for  bibliographers  to  bring  into  play  the 
analytical  powers  demanded  by  the  sphere  to  which  we  would 
confine  them  ;  and  whatever  may  be  the  privations  involved, 
we  hold  that  no  one  should  devote  himself  to  Bibliography  who 
cannot  regard  that  occupation  as  both  adequate  and  honorable. 
He  only  is  "  called  and  chosen"  to  such  labors,  indeed,  who  seeks 
in  books  a  solace  and  a  refuge,  and  loves  them  chiefly  for  the 
sake  of  the  independence  which  they  confer6. 


8  "  O   libri  soli   liberates   et   liberi,  qui     titis  vobis  sedulo  servientes !"    RICHARD 
omni  petenti  tribuitis,  et  omnes  manumit-     BURY,  Philobiblion,  cap.  i. 


Introduction. 


III. 


The  subdivision  which  we  suggest,  of  the  component  parts  of 
every  branch  of  science,  may  be  said  to  have  been  carried  into 
effect  in  Bibliography.  The  Bibliotheca  Bibliographica  of  Dr. 
Julius  Petzhold?  exhibits  a  number  of  bibliographical  works  for 
almost  every  subject.  It  is  not  our  province  to  cite  or  describe 
such  special  repertories,  but  it  behooves  us  to  mention  all  the 
bibliographies  exclusively  devoted  to  America  which  have  come 
to  our  notice. 

Early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  the  vast  coast-line  which 
hems  the  New  World  had  already  been  surveyed.  Shouten 
doubling  Cape  Horn  in  1616  had  marked  the  extreme  limit  of 
the  southern  hemisphere,  while  in  the  same  year  William  Baffin 
had  sailed  to  the  seventy-eighth  degree  of  north  latitude  and  dis 
covered  the  bay  which  now  bears  his  name.  Immense  regions 
in  the  interior  of  the  continent  still  remained  unknown,  but  the 
colonies  of  different  European  nations  were  rapidly  encroaching 
on  the  wilderness,  and  already  encircled  the  whole  hemisphere 
with  a  chain,  to  the  completeness  of  which  but  a  few  links  were 
lacking.  The  continent  was  daily  growing  in  importance  to 
the  people  of  Christendom  not  only  as  an  inexhaustible  source 
of  revenue  to  different  European  Powers,  but  as  a  vast  field  for 
immigration  and  for  the  development  of  commerce.  True  it  is 
that  the  names  of  Cibola,  L'el  Dorado,  Quivora  and  Tiguex  had 
not  entirely  lost  the  magic  influence,  which,  nearly  a  century 
before,  had  led  a  Vasquez  de  Coronado,  a  Nuno  de  Guzman  and 
an  Orsua  to  undertake  fruitless  expeditions,  of  which  these  bold 
adventurers  fell  the  first  victims  ;  but  such  illusions  pertain  to 


7  Leipzig,  1866,  8vo,  pp.  10  +  939. 


Introduction.  xi 

human  nature,  and  we  see  them  exercise  the  same  damaging 
power  over  the  mind  of  men  at  all  times  and  everywhere8. 

It  would  be  rash  to  assert  that  the  crafty  statesmen  who  at 
that  time  ruled  Spain,  France,  England  and  Holland,  shared  the 
delusions  which  prompted  so  many  Europeans  to  cast  their  lot 
in  the  New  World.  It  was  not  the  Fountain  of  Youth  which 
Philip  of  Spain  and  Elizabeth  of  England  had  in  view  when 
they  encouraged  maritime  expeditions  to  America,  but  a  market 
for  their  manufactures  and  seaports  for  their  navies.  We  hear 
of  a  Spanish  fleet  sailing  in  1602  from  Acapulco  to  California, 
but  although  the  production  of  gold  in  Peru  and  Mexico  had 
risen  in  the  year  1600  from  three  to  eleven  million  dollars  per 
annum,  this  precious  metal  was  not  even  mentioned  among  the 
objects  of  the  expedition  ;  and  Sebastian  Vizcaino  received  no 
other  instructions  than  to  find  a  safe  harbor  for  the  galleons  on 
their  way  homeward  from  the  Philippine  Islands?.  The  colonies 
were  gradually  emerging  from  that  state  of  absolute  tutelage, 
which  checked  all  individual  efforts,  and,  in  imitation  of  the 
military  colonies  established  by  the  Romans  in  Bruttium  and 
Campania,  seemed  to  have  no  other  object  than  to  exhaust  the 
resources  of  the  country  for  the  benefit  not  even  of  the  con 
quering  power,  but  of  a  few  privileged  adventurers.  John  III 
of  Portugal  had  already  broken  ground  for  the  division  into 
twelve  captainships,  which  was  destined  to  initiate  the  prosperity 
of  Brazil ;  and  James  I  of  England  had  commissioned  Governor 
Yeardley  to  establish  a  provincial  legislature  in  Virginia.  Spain, 
even,  striving  to  keep  a  watchful  eye  over  her  distant  posses- 


8  "  M.  de  Humboldt  ayant«dans  sa  der-  les  resultats  ne  repondirent  pas  a  1'attente 

mere    edition    [de    YExamen     Critique  f\  des    speculateurs,    et    ils    eurent    1'etrange 

donne  de  nouveaux  details  sur  ce  fameux  pensee  de  traduire  le  nom  de  1'illustre  voy- 

lac    de   Guatavita  ou  s'accomplissaient  les  ageur  a  la  barre  du  Parlement." — DENIS, 

actes  de  1'ancien   Dorado,  et   ou   Ton  sup-  Le  mondc  Enchant'e ;    Cosmographie  et  His- 

pose  que  de  nombreux  tresors  sont  enfouis,  toire  Naturclle  fantastiques  du  Moyen  Age  ; 

une  compagnie  anglaise  s'empara  de  cette  Paris,  1845,  i8mo,  p.  2,88,  note. 

revelation   historique  et   se   constitua  pour  *  TOROJJEMADA,  Monarquia  Indiana,  lib. 

1'exploitation   du    lac.      Malheureusement  v,  cap.  45  and  55. 


xii  Introduction. 

sions,  had  framed  a  judicious  system  of  laws10,  which,  had  they 
not  been  thwarted  in  the  application  by  the  rapacious  and  reck 
less  adventurers  whose  nefarious  influence  was  still  felt  two 
centuries  after  the  conquest,  would  have  proved  a  blessing 
instead  of  a  bane  and  a  curse  to  the  vast  regions  over  which 
they  were  extended. 

This  constant  interposition  of  the  European  governments, 
and  the  growing  prosperity  of  the  American  colonies,  naturally 
increased  the  interest  which  individuals  took  in  the  geography, 
history  and  laws  of  America,  either  for  the  purpose  of  trade  or 
immigration,  and  created  a  corresponding  demand  for  works 
from  which  the  required  information  might  be  obtained.  We  see, 
therefore,  sometimes  under  the  direct  influence  of  the  govern 
ment,  but  generally  at  the  cost  of  booksellers  or  of  companies 
interested  in  promoting  immigration  from  certain  localities,  books, 
pamphlets,  broadsides  and  maps  multiply  at  the  beginning  of  the 
seventeenth  century  with  amazing  rapidity.  The  great  works 
of  Hakluyt,  Herrera,  Linschotten  and  Wytfliet,  with  their  nu 
merous  translations,  are  of  that  period.  The  splendid  publica 
tions  of  the  Brothers  De  Bry  and  of  Hulsius,  parts  of  which 
have  been  so  frequently  altered  and  reprinted  that  a  perfect 
collection  is  almost  an  impossibility,  show  that  the  demand  for 
works  of  this  description  had  already  reached  certain  spheres 
where  beauty  in  the  execution  was  deemed  paramount  to  truth 
or  reliability.  The  curious  and  extensive  list  of  English  pla- 
quettes  and  pamphlets  begins  in  1602,  with  the  Brereton  and 
Waymouth  books,  which  were  soon  followed  by  a  succession 
of  tracts  relating  to  New  England  and  Virginia,  the  number  of 
which  is  truly  surprising".  The  Diary  of  W.  Cornelitz  Shouten 


10  Of-  ]•  GUTIERREZ  DE  RUBALCAVA,  Espanolcs  con  sus  colonias  en  las  India*  Oc- 
Tratado  histdrico  politico  y  legal  del  Comer-  cidentales;  Madrid,  1797,  4to,  and  CAM- 
IT  to ;  Madrid,  1750,  4to,  R.  ANTUNEZ  Y  poMANEs'^cndVce  a  la  Educcacion  popular. 
ACEVEDO,  Memorial  Hhtdricas  sobre  la  Le-  n  Cf.  Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  p.  16,  sy., 
gislacion  y  Gobierno  del  Comercio  de  los  and  Part  n  of  Bibliotheca  Broivniana. 


Introduction.  xiii 

opens,  in  1617,  the  era  of  Dutch  pamphlets11,  many  of  which 
come  to  light  daily,  and  increase  beyond  all  expectation  the  list 
of  such  works. — We  have  seen  an  entire  shelf  covered  with  the 
different  editions  and  translations  of  the  Brevissima  relation  of 
Las  Casas,  published  in  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries. 
The  Mexican  and  Peruvian  presses  begin  at  that  time  to  furnish 
their  contingent  of  American  books,  while  the  works  of  Les- 
carbot  and  Champlain  pave  the  way  for  the  Jesuits'  Relations, 
then  comparatively  numerous  and  now  so  rare. 

A  catalogue  of  all  these  publications  was  certainly  needed  ; 
yet,  the  only  special  list  of  books  relating  to  America  which 
seems  to  have  been  published  from  the  time  when  the  Roman 
presses  first  published  the  Epistle  of  Columbus  in  1493''  to  tne 
year  1625,  is  the  meagre  chapter  de  Scriptoribus  Rerum  Ameri- 
canarum  in  the  Bibliotbeca  Classica  of  Draudius1*,  that  "  Cata 
logue  mal  digere  des  foires  de  Francfort,"  as  Baillet  justly 
calls15  this  miserable  compilation.  It  was  left  to  a  native  Ameri 
can,  Pinelo,  to  frame  the  first  and  best  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Born  in  Peru  and  educated  in  Lima16,  Antonio  de  Leon  y 
Pinelo  commenced  at  a  very  early  age  to  take  a  lively 
'  interest  in  the  geography,  laws  and  history  of  this  con 
tinent.  Having  been  bred  to  the  bar,  he  concentrated 
his  efforts  on  a  digest  of  the  numerous  ordinances  which  had 
been  enacted  for  the  regulation  of  the  Indies17.  But  as  such  a 
compilation  required  extensive  researches  into  the  archives  of 
Spain,  he  repaired  to  Seville,  when,  after  having  been  appointed 
a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Colonies,  he  received  the 
important  office  of  Chronicler  of  the  Indies,  which  had  already 


IJ  Cf.  TROMEL,  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  "  Jugcmcns  des  Sa-vans,  Vol.  11,  p.  7. 

p»  29,  sq.  18  ANTONIO,  Bibliotheca  Hispana  Nova, 

13  Nos.  I,  2,  3,  4.  Vol.  i,  p.  1395   FRANCKENAU,   Bibliotheca 

14  Francofurti  ad  Mcenum,   162,2,    4to.  Hispanica,  p.    38.     The  reference  in   the 
If  our  memory  serves  us   right,    the   Bib-  latter  to  J.  FLORES  DE  OCARIZ,  Genealogias 
liotheca    Historica    of    BALDUANUS,   which  del    nue-vo    Reyno    de    Granada    (Madrid, 
was   published  five  years  before,  does   not  1674,   fol.),  Vol.  i,  p.  295,  leads  only  to 
classify  separately   the    works    relating  to  an  insignificant  marginal  note. 

the  New  World.  1T  See  infra,  p.  392,  ty. 


Introduction. 

been  filled  with  so  much  credit  by  Oviedo,  Herrera  and  Davila 
y  Padilla.  It  was  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  that  Leon 
Pinelo  prepared  a  history  of  the  Council  of  the  Indies18,  to  which 
he  intended  to  add,  at  the  request  of  the  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Council,  an  analysis  or  description  of  every  work,  whether 
printed  or  in  manuscript,  relating  to  the  Spanish  possessions 
beyond  the  seas19.  But  instead  of  publishing  this  vast  repertory, 
which  was  actually  composed20,  and  would  have  proved  in 
valuable  to  subsequent  bibliographers,  he  only  printed  in  1629 
an  abridgement  or  Epitome™  "  como  primicia  de  mis  [sus]  largos 
estudios,  i  suma  de  mayor  Biblioteca,  que  superior  mandate 
anticipo  a  la  estampa"."  This  Epitome  may  be  considered  the 
first  Bibllotheca  Americana. 

The  plan  of  the  work  is  remarkable.  The  four  main  sections 
are  composed  of  a  Biblioteca  Oriental,  a  Biblioteca  Occidental,  a 
Biblioteca  Nautica,  and  a  Biblioteca  Geografica.  The  second  of 
these,  which  is  the  only  one  that  interests  us,  is  subdivided  into 
historians  who  wrote  concerning  the  Indies  in  general,  and  those 
who  treat  of  particular  countries,  such  as  New  Spain,  Florida, 
Peru,  &c.  Religions,  Linguistics,  Jurisprudence  and  Natural 
History  form  separate  chapters.  Leon  Pinelo  intended  to  add  two 
sections,  one  giving  the  titles  of  works  which  referred  inciden 
tally  to  America ;  the  other,  which  would  have  proved  of  great 
interest,  containing  a  description  and  extracts  of  the  "  Libros 


18  Conscjo  Real  i  Supremo  de  las  Indias,  de    Toral  i  Monasterio,  Conde    de    Parma- 
su   origcn   i  jurisdicion,   i   los    Prcsidentcs,  coel/o  i  Valdorce,  Comendador  de  Valdcpcnas, 
Cosejeros,  Fiscales  i  Secretaries  que  desde  su  Gran  Canciller  de  las  Indias,  Tcsorcro  Gen- 

fundacion  hasta  oy  ha  tenido  ;  MS.,  Epitome,  eral  de  la   Corona  de  dragon,  i  Conscjo  de 

page  119.  Italia,  Capitan  de  los  den  Hijosdalgo  de  la 

19  Dedication  to  the  Duke  de  Medina  guarda   de   la    Real  persona  i  Sumiller  de 
de  las  Torres,  on  signature  3.  Corps.     Per  el  Licenciado  Antonio  de  Leon 

20  "  la    Biblioteca    que    mas    ampliada,  Relator   del  Supremo  i  Real  Conscjo   de   las 
tengo  escrita,"  loc.  cit.,  p.  1 34.  Indias.      Con  Priuilegio.    En  Madrid,  Par 

21  Epitome   de  la  Bibliotheca    Oriental  i  luan  Gonzalez.     Ano  de  M.DCXXIX. 
Occidental,  Nautical  Geografca.   Al  Excel-  *^*4to;  title  i  1.  +  43  unnumb.  11  + 
entiss.  Senor  D.Ramiro  Nunes  Perez  Felipe  183   numb.  pp.  +  12  pp.  for  appendix-)-  I 
de  Guzman,  Senor  de  la  Casa   de   Guzman,  1.  for  colophon. 

Duque  de  Medina  de  las  Torres,  Marques  **  Prologo,  on  sign.  4. 


Introduction.  xv 

Reales"  in  the  offices  of  the  secretaries  of  the  Supreme  Council 
of  the  Indies — upwards  of  five  hundred  of  which  he  had  read. 
The  Epitome  describes  manuscripts  as  well  as  printed  books,  in  the 
alphabetical  order,  with  valuable  notes.  Pinelo  seems  to  have 
made  his  descriptions  from  the  works  themselves,  except  in  a  few 
instances  where  the  titles  are  derived  from  the  catalogues  of 
Balduanus2',  Draudius24,  Gabriel  de  Sora25,  and  from  works  in 
the  library  of  his  predecessor,  Thomas  Tamayro.  He  likewise 
extracted  from  Hervagius,  Ramusio  and  De  Bry,  the  accounts 
relating  specially  to  the  New  World.  Prefixed  are  several  poems, 
an  introduction  by  Juan  Rodriguez  de  Leon,  who  was  Pinelo's 
brother,  and  several  indices  carefully  and  skillfully  drawn. 

From  the  fact  that  Juan  de  Solorcano  Pereira  was  appointed 
in  1634  to  continue  the  Recopilacion  de  Leyes,  commenced  by 
Rodrigo  de  Aguiar  and  Leon  Pinelo,  we  infer  that  the  latter 
died  probably  in  1633. 

Although  several  authors  of  note26  may  have  intended  to  follow 
the  example  of  the  Peruvian  jurist,  the  earliest  cata 
logue  of  books  exclusively  devoted  to  America  which 

1713.  ' 

we  can  find  after  the  work  of  Leon  Pinelo,  is  the 
useful  Bibliothecte  Americana  Primordia  of  White  Kennett,  Dean 
of  Peterborough2?,  enlarged  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Watts28.  The 

83  Bibliotheca     Classica,     siue     Catalogus  borough,    1718;    died,    1728. — DARLING, 

Officinalis,  Francofurti  ad  M.   1625,   4to.  Cycloped.  Bibliogr.,  col.  1718. 

24  Bibliotheca    Historica,    Lipsie,    1 620,  28   Bibliotheca    Americanos     Primordia. 
4to.  An  Attempt  Towards  laying  the  Foundation 

25  "  Bibliothecae    amplissimae    dominus,  of  an  American  Library,  In  several  Books, 
cujus  non  exigui  voluminis  extat  catalogus  Papers,  and  Writings,  Humbly  given  to  the 
typis    editus  .  .  .  .  "      ANTONIO,    loc.    cit.,  Society  for   Propagation   of  the    Gospel  in 
Vol.  i,  p.  509.  Foreign  Parts,  For  the   Perpetual  Use  and 

28  Alcedo  mentions  in  the  prologue  of  Benefit  of  their  Members,  their  Missionaries, 
his  manuscript  bibliography,  a  Biblioteca  Friends,  Correspondents,  and  others  con- 
Americana,  composed  by  JUAN  DIEZ  DE  LA  cern'd  in  the  Good  Design  of  Planting  and 
CALLE  5  a  few  sheets  only  were  printed  promoting  Christianity  'within  Her  Majesty's 
about  the  year  1646.  Colonies  and  Plantations  in  the  West-Indies. 

27  Born  at  Dover,  1660.     Entered  of  St.  By  a  Member  of  the  said  Society.     London, 

Edmund    Hall,    Oxford,    16785  Vicar    of  Printed  for    J.    Churchill,    at    the    Black 

Amersden,  Oxfordshire,  1684;   Rector  of  Swan  in  Pater- Noster-Row,  1713. 
Shottesbrook,  Berkshire,  1693;  Minister  of         *#*  4105  title  one  leaf  4- 16  preliminary 

St.  Botolph,  Aldgate,  London,  1699;  Dean  pp.  +  276  pp.  +  112    unnumbered    leaves 

of  Peterborough,  1707;  Bishop  of  Peter-  for  table. 


xvi  Introduction. 

title  explains  the  purpose  of  this  excellent  bibliography.  The 
accounts,  which  are  chiefly  extracted  from  the  collections  of 
Hervagius,  Ramusio,  Eden,  Hakluyt,  and  Purchas,  are,  together 
with  relations  borrowed  from  the  Epistles  of  Peter  Martyr, 
arranged  in  the  order  of  dates.  A  certain  number  of  valuable 
works,  especially  of  the  seventeenth  century,  apparently  taken 
from  the  library  which  the  learned  Bishop  donated  in  1713 
to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel,  are  described 
with  accuracy.  As  an  index  of  subjects,  the  Bibliotbeca  Ameri 
cans  Primordla  stands  prominent  among  the  works  of  the  kind. 
Lenglet  Du  Fresnoy  inserted  in  his  well-known  Methods  pour 
etudier  la  G'eograpbie  29  a  list  of  works  relating  to 

LENGLET      America.     It  numbers  about  sixty  titles  (exclusive 

Du  FRESNOY.     ,    ,  .        /•  T»  ^  r  »     r»     r>    N          •• 

/•          of-  the  reprint  or  Kothehn  s  De  Bry),  beginning 

with  Benzoni.  We  notice  an  Ovledo  of  1730, 
which  is  not  to  be  found  anywhere  else.  The  catalogue  of 
American  voyages3"  is  still  more  succinct.  Both  of  these  lists 
bear  a  certain  resemblance  to  Mencke's  workjl. 

Andres  Gonzales  de  Barcia  Carballido  y  Zuniga32,  while  pre 
paring  the  edition  of  Herrera's  Historia   General™, 

BARCIA 

"  o       which  is    so  well  known  for  its  admirable  index, 

1737-0.  ' 

thought  it  advisable  to  enlarge  the  list  of  Los 
Autores  impresos,  y  de  mano,  que  ban  escrito  cosas  particulares  de 
las  Indias  Occidentals,  which  precedes  the  original  edition  of 
Herrera.  To  that  effect  he  instituted  diligent  researches  to  dis 
cover  the  larger  work  of  Leon  Pinelo,  but  failing  in  this34,  he 


29  Paris,  1742  (third  edit.),  Vol.  i,  Part  3a  "  Barcia  was  a  man  of  literary  dis- 
u,  p.  405,  sq.      We  have  not  been  able  to  tinction,  much  employed  in  the  affairs  of 
procure  the  edition  of  1768,  which  is   the  state,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Span- 
most  complete.  ish  Academy.     He  died  in  1743." — TICK- 

30  loc.  cit.,  p.  504,  sq.  NOR,  Hist,  of  Spanish  Literature,  Vol.   11, 

31  Catalogue    des   principaux     Aistoricns,  p.  29,  note  13,  on  the  authority  of  BAENA, 
a-vec  des  rcmarques  critiques  sur  la  bonte  de  Hijos  de  Madrid,  Vol.  i,  p.  106. 

leurs  ou-vrages  et  sur  le  choix  des  meilleurcs  33  Madrid,  1726,  — . 

editions.     Par  J.  B.  MENCKE  ;   Lipsic  [«'c],  34  "  Esta  Obra  maior,  que  no  falta  quien 

M  DCC  xiv,  izmo,  p.  426,  sq.  diga  haverla  acabado  (i  en  el  continuo  tra- 


Introduction.  xvii 

availed  himself  of  his  "  noble  collection  of  books  and  manu 
scripts  relating  to  America"35,  of  some  stray  notes  ("  Papeles 
Originales,  i  copias  del  autor")  left  by  Pinelo,  and  of  such 
materials  as  he  could  find  in  the  extensive  compilations  of 
Rodriguez36,  Quetif  and  Echard37,  Labbe38,  Nicholas  Antonio, 
Du  Halde,  Trevoux,  &c.,  and  following  the  plan  of  the  Epitome 
of  Leon  Pinelo,  compiled  the  extensive  BibliotbecaW,  which,  to 
distinguish  it  from  the  latter,  we  call  Pinelo-Barcia. 

Barcia's  work  is  an  immense  repertorium,  containing  abridged 
titles,  all  translated  into  Spanish,  and  fraught  with  inaccuracies 
of  all  kinds.  The  multiplicity  of  indices,  and  the  different 
paginations  render  this  bulky  compilation  of  little  use,  although 
in  the  midst  of  a  chaotic  mass,  painstaking  bibliographers 
may  discover  notices,  especially  in  the  mention  of  manuscript 
sources,  which  could  not  be  found  in  any  other  work.  Many 
of  the  errors  which  mar  the  utility  of  subsequent  bibliographies 
can  be  traced  to  Pinelo-Barcia. 

If  no  bibliography  of  American  books  is  to  be  found  for  a 
number  of  years  after  Barcia's,  there  are  several  lists,  prefixed  to 
histories,  which,  although  relating  exclusively  to  particular  sec 
tions  of  countries,  find  their  place  in  this  con- 

CHARLEVOIX.  .         ~M     c      .       ,        .    .          .  ,  c 

nection.     I  he  nrst  is  a  description,  with  notes,  or 
1744- 

fifty-five  works,  added  by  Charlevoix  to  his  His- 


bajo  del  Autor,  es  verisimil)  no  han  podido  Se-villa,  y    Coronista  Maior  de  las   Indias, 

descubrir  las  mas  eficaces  diligencias."     Pi-  anadido,  y  enmendado  nue-vamente,  en  qitc  se 

NELO-BARCIA,  Proemio,  third  page.  conticncn  los  cscritores  de  las  Indias  Orien- 

36  RICH,    Bibliotheca  Americana   Nova,  tales,  y    Occidentales,  y    Reinos    con-vecinos 
Vol.  I,  p.  55,  No.  7.  China,    Tartaria,  Japan,   Persia,  Armenia, 

86  BibliothecaValentina^ Valencia,  1702-  Etiopia,  y    otras   partes.     Al    Rey   nuestro 

1703,  folio.  senor.      Par   mono  del   Marques  de    Torre- 

37  De   Scriptoribus  ordinis   Pradicator.  ,•  Nueita,    su    Secrctario    del    Despacho    Uni- 
Paris,  1719-21,  fol.  -versa/  de  Hacienda,  Indias  i  Mexico.      Con 

38  Bibliotheca     BibHothccarum  ,•      Paris,  Privilegio.      En   Madrid  :     En    la  oficina 
^664,  4to.  de   Francisco   Martinet  Abad,   en  la   Calle 

39  Epitome  de  la   Biblioteca    Oriental,  y  del  0/i-vo  Baxo.     Ano  de  M.  D.  cc.  xxxvu. 
Occidental,     Nautica,    y     Geografica.      De          *^*  Folio,    3    vols.    (second    and   third 
Don  Antonio  de  Leon  Pinelo,  del  Consejo  de  dated    M.  D.  cc.  xxxvni.),    Biblioteca    Occi- 
su  Mag.  en  la   Casa  de  la   Contratacion  de  dental,  cols.  516—912,  in  Vol.  n. 


xviii  Introduction. 

tory  of  New  France*0.  Laudonniere  (1586)  is  the  earliest 
author  mentioned  ;  but  we  find  reliable  accounts  of  Lescarbot, 
Champlain,  Sagard,  and  of  the  most  important  historians  of 
Canada.  The  notes  are  succinct,  but  trustworthy,  and  such  as 
would  have  added  still  greater  value  to  the  History  of  America 
of  Robertson,  had  that  painstaking  historian  done  more  than 
limit  himself  to  a  mere  mention  of  titles.  The 
ROBERTSON.  books  Described  by  Robertson*1  seem  to  have  com- 

1777. 

posed  a  part  of  the  library  which  was  procured  for 
him  by  Mr.  Widdilove,  the  chaplain  of  the  English  embassy  at 
Madrid,  and  of  copies  of  such  manuscripts  as  Lord  Grantham 
was  permitted  to  consult.  It  must  be  said,  however,  that  the 
Spanish  government  exhibited  then,  as  now,  a  great  reluctance42 
towards  communicating,  even  to  the  English  ambassador,  cer 
tain  documents,  which  it  was  left  to  Navarrete  to  publish  for 
the  first  time.  Robertson's  catalogue  comprises  nearly  two 
hundred  and  fifty  works,  all  intrinsically  valuable,  but  of  no 
great  rarity.  The  leading  historians  are  not  in  original  editions, 
but  mere  extracts  from  Ramusio's,  De  Bry's  and  Barcia's  col 
lections  or  late  reprints.  We  notice,  however,  the  princeps  of 
Las  Casas,  Castanheda,  and  the  Vocabulario  of  Molina. 

Clavigero   enjoyed  advantages  which  were  denied  his  prede 
cessors.     A  member  of  the  order  of  the  Jesuits 

at  the  time  when  the  New  World  was  ruled  by 
1780. 

the    clergy   as    a    conquered    province,    he    spent 

thirty-six  years  in  Mexico  collecting  documents  for  his  intended 

40  Liste   ft   examcn   des   autcurs  que   'fal  4a  "  Les  journaux  originaux  de  Colomb, 
consultes  pour  composer  ctt  outrage  [fr:s.  :  de  Pinzon,  d'Ojeda,  d'Ovando,  de   Balboa, 
Histoire  et  Description    Generate  de  la  Nou-  de  Ponce  de  Leon,  d'Hernandez  de   Cor- 
•velle  France,  avec  le  journal  historique  fun  doue,  de  Cortez,  &c.,  se  trouvent  tous  dans 
Voyage  fait  par  ordre  du  Roi  dans  T Ante-  le  cabinet  des  archives  de  la  couronne,  a 
rique  Septentrionale ;   Paris,  M.DCC.XLIV,   2  Simancas,    a    deux    lieues    de    Valladolid. 
vols.  4to.     In  Vol  i,  pp.  xlj-lxj],  Les  chartes  et  les  diplomes  des  affaires   de 

41  A  catalogue  of  Spanish  books  and  man-  I'Amerique  qui,  sur  1'ordre  de  Philippe  II, 
uscripts ;    in    ROBERTSON,    History    of   the  y  furent  deposes,  occupent  la  plus  grande 
Discovery  and  Settlement  of  America  j   Lon-  chambre,  et   forment   huit   cens    soixante- 
don,  1777,  2  vols.  4to,  Vol.  n,   pp.    523-  treize    gros   paquets,  que   M.   Robertson  a 
535.  vainement    cherche    a    consulter."       DE 


Introduction.  xix 

history43,  which  he  prefaced  with  two  lists,  one  of  European 
and  native  authors,  who  wrote  in  the  Mexican,  Otomee,  Maya 
and  other  American  languages ;  the  other,  containing  thirty-nine 
valuable  notices  of  writers  on  the  ancient  history  of  Mexico. 
Clavigero  mentions  manuscript  sources,  such  as  Sahagun,  since 
printed,  Motolinia,  afterwards  lost,  and  Chimalpain,  which  he 
did  not  suspect  to  be  only  a  translation  of  Gomara44. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  nearly  all  the  works  relating  to  the 
New  World  published  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  cen 
turies  in  the  Spanish  language,  were  written  by  priests,  monks 
or  individuals  who  were  connected  in  some  manner  with  the 
Church.  The  extensive  number  of  publications  of  this  character 
induced  Juan  lose  de  Eguiara  y  Eguren,  a  native 

-|-^  J  J  O  J  D  / 

GUIARA.  Mexican?  who  held  the  chair  of  Theology  in  the 
University  of  Mexico,  to  compose  a  dictionary, 
historical  and  bibliographical,  of  all  the  authors  born  in  New 
Spain.  He  died,  unfortunately,  in  1763,  without  completing 
his  work.  Although  Eguiara  carried  his  dictionary  to  the  letter 
J,  only  one  volume  was  published45.  This  includes  only  the 
first  three  letters  of  the  alphabet.  The  rest  of  the  manuscript 
was  preserved  until  within  a  few  years  in  the  library  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Mexico45.  The  prolixity  of  the  dissertations,  the 

MURR,  Histoirc  diplomatique  du    Che-valier         44  See  infra,  p.  204,  note  8. 
Btha'im ;  Strasb.  and   Paris,  1802,  8vo,  p.          45  Bibliotheca  Mexicana  si-ve  ervditor-vm 

63.      This  note  of  De  Murr  seems  to  be  historia  virorvm,  qul   in  America   Boreali 

taken  from   Robertson's  own  preface,  but  nati,  vcl  alibi  geniti,  in  ipsam  Domicilio  aut 

we  have  to  discover  the  authority  of  the  Stuijs  asciti,  quavis   lingua   serif  to  aliquid 

Nuremberg   critic  for   his   assertion  as  re-  tradiderunt :  Eorum  prcesertim  qui  pro  Fide 

gards    the    journals     of    Pinzon,    Ojeda,  Catholica  fijf  Pietate  ampliandafovendaque, 

Ovando,  &c.  egregie  factis   &   quibusvis  Scrip tis  flouere 

43  Storia    antica    del    Messico  ;    Cesena,  editis  aut  ineditis.      Tomus  primus  exhibens 

1780-1,  4  vols.,  410.     In  the  absence  of  litteras  ABC Mexici :  Ex  no-va 

the    Italian    original,    we    quote    Cullen's  Typographia   in   Ai,dibus   Authoris   editioni 

translation,  London,  1780,  410.     Catalogue  ejusdem   Bibliothecte   destinata.     Anno    Do- 

of  some    [12,8]    European    and   Creole   au-  mini  MDCCLV. 

thors  who  have  written  on  the  Doctrines  of          *^*  Folio;  title  I,  +  18  11.  +  59  +  I,  + 

Christianity  and  Morality,  in  the  Languages  pp.  1—543;  on  two  columns. 

of  New   Spain;  Vol.  I,   p.  412,57.      Au-  (Private  Library,  New  York.) 

thors  of  Grammars  and  Dictionary,  p.  414,  sq.          48  Boletin   de    la  Sociedad  Mexicana   de 

— Account  of  the  Writers  on  the  Ancient  Geograjia  y    Estadistica,   Vol.   x,   No.   2, 

History  of  Mexico,  Vol.  I.  page  77. 


XX 


Introduction. 


lack  of  criticism,  and  the  fact  that  every  title  is  translated  into 
Latin,  deter  greatly  from  the  merit  of  this  work,  which,  how 
ever,  has  not  been  entirely  superseded  by  the  more  extensive 
Biblioteca  of  Beristain,  as  Eguiara  gives  his  authorities,  which 
Beristain  frequently  neglects  to  do. 

The  work  of  Father  Maneiro47  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  this  list 

on  account  of  the  bibliographical  details  contained 
MANEIRO.  in  h}§  thirty_four  elaborate  biographies  of  Mexican 

authors.  Maneiro  belonged  to  the  order  of  the  Jes 
uits.  He  was  born  at  Vera-Cruz  in  1744,  and  died  in  the 
city  of  Mexico  in  1802.  His  biography  of  Clavigero  is  espe 
cially  interesting. 

But  the  repertory  of  Mexican  works  and  authors  which  is 

sought  after  by  collectors  (not  so  much  on  account 

STAIN.     ^  jts  intrinsic  merit  as  because  of  its  rarity),  is  the 
1816-21. 

Biblioteca  of  Beristain48. 

Jose  Mariano  Beristain  Martin  de  Souza  was  born  at  Puebla 
in  I75649.  He  completed  his  education  in  Spain,  and  returned 
in  1790  to  Mexico.  He  was  afterwards  appointed  to  the  offices 
of  Dean  of  the  Cathedral  of  that  city,  and  Rector  of  the  College 
of  San  Pedro  ;  and  became  the  champion  of  Spanish  absolutism 
during  the  revolution  of  1810.  Dr.  Beristain  never  recovered 
from  an  attack  of  apoplexy  with  which  he  was  seized  while 


47  Joannis  Aloysii  Maneiri,  Vtracrucen-  a  lux  algun  escrito,  o  lo  han  dexado  prepa- 
sis,  de  Vit'n  aliquot  Mexicanorum,  aliorum-  rado  para  la  Prensa.    La  escribia  El  Doctor 
que  qui  si-ve  Virtutc,  si-ve  litteris  Mexici  in  De  Jose  Mariano  Beristain  De  Souza,   del 
primis  floruerunt ;    Bononite,  1791—2,  8vo,  Claustro  de  las  Uni-versidades  de  Valencia y 
Vol.  i,  pp.  412;    Vol.  n,  412;    Vol.  in,  Valladolid,  Caballero  de  la  Orden  Espanola 
324.  de   Carlos   III,  y    Comendador   de   la   Real 

We  find  in  the  Diccionario  Uni-vers.  de  Americana  de  Isabel  la  Catolica,  y  Dean  de 

Hist,  y  Geogr.  (Mexico),  Vol.  i,  p.  562,  a  la  Metropolitana  de  Mexico.     En  Mexico: 

notice  of  a  MS.  Mexican  bibliography,  w'». :  Calle   de    Santo  Domingo  y  esquina~  de   Ta- 

Catdlogo  de   los   escritores   Angelo-Politanos  cuba  Ana  de  1816. 

[of  Puebla],  for  DIEGO  BERMUDEZ  DE  CAS-          *#*  Large  410,  Vol.  i,  14  11.  +  540  pp. ; 

TRO.  Vol.  ii  (dated  1819),  2  11.  +  525  pp. ;  Vol. 

48  Biblioteca  Hispano- Americana  Septen-  in  (dated  1821),  2  11.+  365  pp. 
trional :  o  Catalogo  y  Noticia  de  los  Litera-  (Private  Library,  Washington.) 
tot  que  o  nacidos  o  educados  o  jlorencientcs  en          49  Biblioteca    Hispano- Americana     Sept. 
la  America  Septentrional  Espanola,  han  dado  Vol.  I,  art.  Beristain. 


Introduction.  xxi 


preaching  in  the  Cathedral,  and  died  in  iSiy50.  He  was  a  literary 
priest  of  varied  attainments,  who  wrote  poetry,  and  enjoyed 
some  reputation  as  a  pulpit  orator  ;  but  he  is  chiefly  remembered 
on  account  of  his  bibliographical  work. 

Beristain  devoted  twenty  years  to  the  preparation  of  his  Bib 
lioteca,  but  he  lived  to  publish  only  the  first  hundred  and  eighty- 
six  pages  of  the  first  volume  ;  the  rest  of  the  work  having  been 
edited  by  his  nephew,  Jose  Rafael  Enriquez  Trespalacios  Beris 
tain.  When  first  published  it  could  be  procured  for  six  dollars  ; 
now  as  much  as  ninety  or  a  hundred  dollars  are  asked  in 
Mexico  for  a  complete  set,  and  the  work  is  rarely  met  with. 
The  reason  of  its  rarity  is  simply  that  the  number  of  copies 
printed  was  limited  to  the  list  of  subscribers,  as  there  was  no 
prospect  of  finding  purchasers  for  a  larger  edition. 

As  to  the  merits  of  the  work,  they  have  been  greatly  exag 
gerated  by  the  booksellers  who  happened  to  have  a  few  copies 
for  sale.  Its  three  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighty-seven  notices 
convey,  it  is  true,  a  great  deal  of  information,  but  of  a  kind 
which  is  not  always  to  be  trusted,  while  the  titles  are  so  muti 
lated  as  to  be  still  a  source  of  error  and  confusion51.  When  it 
was  proposed,  in  1863,  that  the  Mexican  Society  of  Geography 
should  reprint  the  work,  a  member,  of  undoubted  competency  in 
such  matters,  reported  that  to  reprint  Dr.  Beristain's  Biblioteca, 
as  it  was,  might  not  render  any  service  to  science,  while  to 
correct  it  would  be  almost  an  impossibility  ;  and  that  if  a  bib 
liography  of  this  character  was  absolutely  needed,  the  Society 
would  find  it  a  much  easier  undertaking  to  compose  a  new  one 
altogether. 

60  Diccionario  Uni-v.  de  la  Hist,  y  Geogr.  —  Observacioncs  prcsentadas   a  la  Sociedad 
(Mexico),  Vol.  I,  p.  560.  Mexicana  de  Geografa  y  Ettadistica  for  el 

61  "  El  defecto  principal  de  la  Biblioteca  Socio  de  numero  que  suscribc  [Sr.  d.  J.  GAR- 
de  Beristain  consiste  en  la  libertad  que  se  CIA  ICAZBALCETA],  acera  de  la  proycctada 
tomo  el  autor  de  alterar,  compendiar  y  re-  rcimprcsion  de  la  Biblioteca  H'npano-Amtr- 
construir  los  titulos  de  las  obras  que  cita,  icana    Septentrional  del  Dr.   Beristain  ;    in 
hasta  haber  que  dado  algunosinconocibles."  Bolctin,  Vol.  x,  No.  2,  1864. 


xxii  Introduction. 

Whether  we  consider  MeuselV*  work  as  an  enlarged  edition 
of  Struvius'  Biblioteca  Historical,  or  as  the  realiza- 
MEUSEL.     tjQn  Q^  afi   jjea   SUp-p.ested   by   the   compilations   of 
1782. 

Balduanus,  Zeiller  and  Bartels,  Meusel's  Historical 

Library  will  always  be  considered  a  scholarly  and  reliable  work 
of  the  utmost  importance  to  the  student  of  history.  It  was 
intended  to  comprise  Modern  Italy,  Germany,  the  Netherlands, 
England  and  Northern  Europe,  increasing  the  work  to  forty 
parts.  These,  however,  were  never  published,  but  we  are  glad 
to  record  the  fact  that  the  sections  relating  to  the  New  World 
were  all  inserted.  They  occupy  half  of  the  second  part  and 
half  of  the  first  part  of  Vol.  in,  with  additions  in  the  Analecta. 
Many  of  the  original  editions  of  the  most  important  authors 
seem  to  have  escaped  his  notice.  Thus,  for  the  first  collection, 
he  does  not  ascend  to  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo54,  but  to 
Ruchamer55  j  and  for  the  epistles  of  Columbus  he  refers  to 
Robertus  Monachus55;  but  he  knows  from  the  Cosmograpbits 
Introductio  the  accounts  ascribed  to  Vespuccius,  while  several  of 
the  Cortes  Letters  are  described  from  Seville  editions.  The 
secondary  authors  are  mentioned  with  a  fullness  and  accuracy 
which  betray  the  hand  of  a  bibliographer  who  did  not  limit  his 
efforts  to  the  mere  transcription  of  titles  and  collations,  but  to  a 
perusal  of  the  works  themselves  and  appreciation  of  their  merits. 
John  George  Meusel  was  born  near  Bamberg  in  1743.  A 
pupil  of  Heyne,  he  acquired,  when  only  twenty-three  years  of 
age,  a  certain  reputation  for  his  editions  of  Theocritus  and 
Lucan,  and  was  considered  in  after  life  an  historian  of  consider 
able  merit.  He  died,  in  1820,  at  Erlangen,  where  he  held  the 
chair  of  History  in  the  University. 


82  Bibliotheca   Historica.   Instructa  a  B.  parts  in  eleven  volumes,  including  analccta 

Burcardo    Gotthelf    Stru-vio,    aucta    a    B.  and  index. 
Chrhti.  Gottlieb  Budtro  nunc  -vero  a  loannc          83  lena,  1740,  8vo. 
Georgia  Mcusclio  ita  digcsta,  amplificata  et         64  No.  48. 
tmcndata,  at  paene   no'vum  opus  viJeri pot*         65  No.  57. 
sit  ;     Lipsite    MDCCLXXXII  ;    8vo,    twenty         56  No.  175. 


Introduction.  xxiii 

To  supply  data  to  an  American  gentleman  who  proposed  to 
write  a  history  of  America,  one  Mr.  Reid57  compiled 
s    '     a  chronological  catalogue58  of  books,  pamphlets  and 
state  papers.     The  titles  are   extracted  chiefly  from 
the    lists    then   in    the    British    Museum,    Jefferson's   Notes   on 
Virginia,   The  Monthly  Review,  &c.,  and  arranged  in  the  order 
of  dates,  but  abridged  and  imperfectly  transcribed.    It  is  a  worth 
less  compilation,  which  we  should  not  notice,  were  it  not  to  be 
found  on  the  shelves  of  almost  every  American  library. 

Although  the  Voyages  of  De  Bry  were  not  sought  after  in  the 
last  century  with  the  eagerness  which  distinguishes  the 

f^ 

collectors  of  our  time,  when  Camus59  read  to  his  col- 
1802. 

leagues  of  the  Institute  of  France  the  elaborate  descrip 
tion  which  he  had  prepared  of  the  fine  copy  in  the  National 
Library  he  was  immediately  requested  to  add  a  part  describing 
the  contents  of  the  work.  It  is  to  this  circumstance  that  we  owe 
an  excellent  analysis,  not  only  of  De  Bry's,  but  of  Thevenot's 
collections,  with  incidental  notes  on  those  of  Hervagius,  Ramu- 
sio,  Hakluyt  and  Hulsius.  Camus'  M'emoire^  may  not  contain  as 
minute  bibliographical  details  as  the  well-known  descriptions  of 
Cisternay  Du  Fay's61  and  of  De  Bure's62  copies,  or  collations  as 


67  This  work   is  sometimes  ascribed  to  state  of  Literature  in  those  countries  ;   Lon- 

DEBRETT    or    to    one   Rev.    Mr.    HOMER,  don,  printed  for  J.  DEBRETT.    MDCCLXXXIX. 
Debrett  was  only  the  publisher,  while  Mr.          *+*  410;   title  i  1. -f  i  1.4-2.71  pp. 
Homer  happened  simply  to   own  a  copy,          59  Armand  Gaston  Camus,  born  at  Paris 

which  contained  the  following  note:    "  R.  in  1740,  was  a  great  jurist,  who  played  an 

for  Reid,  the  anonymous   author  of  a   book  important  part  in  the  French  Revolution 

entitled  Bibliotheca   Americana,  printed  in  of  1789.      He  died  in  1804. 
1789."      See   RICH,    Biblioth,    Americana          60  Memoires  sur  la  collection  des  Grands 

No-va  (SuppL),  p.  491,  No.  i.  et    Petits    foyagcs,  et   sur   la   collection   des 

88  Bibliotheca  Americana}  or,  a  chrono-  -voyages  de  Melchisedech   The-venot  ,•  par  A. 

logical  catalogue  of  the  most  curious  and  in-  G.    CAMUS,   membre   de   rinstitut   national, 

teresting    Books,    Pamphlets,   State     Papers,  Imprimepar  Tordrc  et  aux  frais  de  Tlnstitut ; 

&c.,  upon   the  subject  of  North  and  South  Paris,  Frimaire  An.  xi.  (1802.).     410,  3  11. 

America,  from    the    earliest   period    to    the  +401  pp.  +  I  1. 

present,  in  print  and  manuscript  $  for  which          6I  No.    2825    of   the    catalogue    of   his 

research  has  been  made  in  the  British  Muse-  library,  prepared  by  G.  Martin. 
urn,  and  the  most  celebrated  public  and  pri-          ea  Bibliographic   Instructive,  Vol.  I,  pp. 

vote    libraries,    re-views,    catalogues,    &c.,  67—187  (an   interleaved  copy  of  this  part, 

•with  an  introductory  discourse  on  the  present  with  De  Bure's  cwn  annotations). 


xxiv  Introduction. 

full  as  the  monographs  published  by  De  Rothelin6',  Brunei6*, 
Quaritch65  and  Weigel66,  but  it  must  always  be  considered  a 
most  valuable  contribution  to  Analytical  Bibliography. 

Antonio  de  Alcedo  y  Bexarano,  the  author  of  the  well-known 
Geographical  Dictionary,   was  born  at  Quito  about 
ALCEDO.    ^  ^ear  jy^o.    After  finishing  his  education  at  Mad 


rid  he  entered  the  Spanish  army,  and,  in  1767,  while 
yet  holding  a  commission,  studied  Medicine  at  Montpellier.  In 
1807  he  held  the  post  of  Governor  of  Coruna.  His  last  work 
was  a  Eiblioteca  Americana^1,  which  never  was  printed.  This 
bulky  compilation  seems  to  be  based  entirely  upon  Pinelo-Bar- 
cia,  with  the  addition  of  a  few  biographical  notes,  which  are  of 
interest  only  when  referring  to  modern  American  authors.  The 
titles  are  given  in  alphabetical  order,  abridged,  and  selected 
with  very  little  discrimination68. 

Part  V  of  the  extensive  bibliography  of  Voyages6^  by  G.  Bou 

cher  de  la  Richarderie,  is  devoted  exclusively  to 

LA  America.     The  number  of  volumes  cited  is  con- 

RlCHARDERIE.      .  ,        ,,         ,  .         ,•    , 

8  £  siderable,   but   not   worthy   the   high   encomium 

passed  on  this  compilation  by  Peignot,  who  calls 


See  also,  by  the  same  bibliographer  :  state  that  the  copy  described  in  this  care- 

Descriftion  dt  fexemplaire  de  la  Collec-  fully   drawn  memoir  is  now  in  a  private 

tion  des  Grands  et  Petits  voyages  de    Th'eo-  library  of  this  city. 

dore  de   Bry  appurtenant  a   M.  le  Due  de          "  Eiblioteca  Americana,  Catalogo  de  /os 

Bedford,     s.  a.  a.  1.  [Paris,   May,    1838],  autores  que   han    escrito   de   la  America    en 

fol.  6  pp.  diferentes  idiomas.      T  noticia  de  su  vida  y 

83  Observations     et     Details    sur    la    col-  patria,  anos  en    que   viuieron  y    obras   que 

lection    des  grands   &   des  petits   voyages ;  escribieron.      Compuesto  par  El  Mariscal  de 

Paris,  1742,  4to,  p.  44  (Abbe  de   Rothe-  Campo  D.  Antonio  de  Alcedo,  Gobernado  de 

lin's  own  copy  with  MS.  notes).    Reprinted  la   Plaza   de   la    Coruna.     Ano    de    1807. 

in    LENGLET    Du    FRESNOY,  Methode  pour  Fol.  vi-\-iQ2%  11.  MS. 

etudier  la  Geogr.,  Vol.  I,  pp.  324-361.  (Private  Library,  Providence.) 

64  Manuel,  Vol.  I,  cols.  1310-1363.  8S  Witness  the  following  (fol.^236)  : 

95  Collation  of  the   German  De  Bry,  first          "  CRASOE,  ROBINSOR.      Vida  y  maravil- 

editions ;  i.  a.  a.  /.,  4  large  fol.  pages.  losos  sucesos  de  Crasoe    Robinsor,  y  entre 

66  Bibliographische    Mittheilungen     uber  otros  varios  el  de  haber  estado  28   anos  en 

die  deutschen  Ausgaben  von  DE  BRY'S  Samm-  una  Isla  desierta  sobre  la  costa  y  boca  del 

lungen  der  Reisen  nach  dem  abend-  und  mor-  rio  Orinoco:  en  ingles  .  Londres,  17. ..  8°." 

genlandischen    Indien.     Aus    dem    "  SERA-          69  Bibliotheque  Universelle  des   Voyages, 

PEUM"   besonders   abgedruckt  j    Leipzig,  T.  ou  Notice  complete  et  raisonnee  de  tous  let 

O.  Weigel,  1845,  52  PP-      ^e  are  S^a^  to  voyages  anciens  et  modernes  dans  let  differ- 


Introduction.  xxv 

it  "  un  vrai  monument  de  bibliographic  speciale70,"  we  feel  con- . 
strained  to  say  that  were  it  not  for  the  extracts  which  it  gives 
from  books  published  in  the  eighteenth  century,  the  portion 
of  the  Bibliotheque  universelle  des  Voyages  relating  to  America 
would  be  a  very  useless  compilation.  Unfortunately,  the  work 
was  frequently  consulted,  and  to  this  untoward  circumstance  do 
we  ascribe  many  of  the  egregious  mistakes  which  mar  a  number 
of  subsequent  publications71.  Giles  Boucher  de  la  Richarderie 
was  an  eminent  French  jurist,  whose  erudition  should  have 
enabled  him  to  compose  a  better  work.  He  was  born  in  1733, 
and  died  at  Paris  in  1810. 

Dr.  David  B.  Warden,  an  Irishman  by  birth,  but  who  held 
for  forty  years  the  post  of  U.   S.   Consul  at  Paris, 
%  where  he  died  in  1845,  nac^  collected  a  library  com 

posed  of  works  relating  to  America,  neither  very 
extensive  nor  containing  books  of  extreme  variety,  but,  for  the 
time,  a  useful  and  valuable  collection.  This  he  offered  for  sale 
in  1820,  and,  for  the  use  of  purchasers,  compiled  a  catalogue721, 
which  evinces  methodical  habits,  and  a  competent  knowledge  of 
the  subject.  The  collection  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Samuel  E. 
Elliott,  who  donated  it  to  Harvard  College75  in  1823.  The 
earliest  work  on  the  list  is  the  Novus  Orbis  of  1537.  A  few 
years  later,  Dr.  Warden  having  consented  to  furnish  M.  de 
Courcelles  (the  editor  of  the  continuation  of  the  Art  de  Verifier 
les  Dates) ,  with  chronological  tables  of  American  history74,  com- 


entes  parties  du  monde,  publics  tant  en  Ian-  7a  Bibliotheca     Americo-Septentrionalis  : 

gue  fran^aise  quen  langues  etrangeres,  classes  being  a  choice  collection  of  Books  in  •various 

par  ordre  de  pays   dans  leur  serie  chronolo-  languages,  relating  to  the   History,  Climate, 

gique  ;     ai-cc    des    extraits    plus    ou    mains  Geography  .  .  .  of  North  America,  from  its 

rapides  des  "voyages  les  plus  estimes  de  chaque  Jirst  disco-very  to  its  present  existing  Go-vern- 

pays,  et  les  jugements,  motives  sur  les  rela-  ment.     S.  a.  a.  I.  [Paris,   1820],  8vo,  pp. 

tions  anciennes  qui  ont  le  plus  de  celebrite.  147. 

Par    G.    BOUCHER    DE    LA    RICHARDERIE.  7S  Jos.  QUINCY,  History  of  Har-vard  Coll., 

Paris,  1808,  8vo,  Vols.  v  and  vi.  p.  553.     This  college  had  already  received 

70  Repertoire  de  Bibliographies  Speciales,  as  a  gift,  in   1818,  from   Mr.  Thorndike, 

— .  the  valuable  collection  of  Prof.  Ebeling  of 

''FARIBAULT,    among    others,    for    in-  Hamburg,  which  contained  a  large  number 

stance,   borrows   many   of    his    inaccurate  of  books  on  America  5  loc.  cit.,  p.  413. 

descriptions  from  La  Richarderie.  r4  Paris,  1826—9,  8vo,  Vols.  ix-xn. 

D 


xxvi  Introduction. 

menced  a  new  collection  of  books  on  America,  which,  when  his 
work  had  been  published,  he  also  offered  for  sale.  It  was  pur 
chased,  for  $4,000,  by  the  State  of  New  York?? ;  and  it  is  the 
catalogue  of  this  second  collection  which  is  frequently  quoted 
as  "  Warden's  Bibliotheca^"  It  numbers  1118  works,  begin 
ning  with  the  translation  of  Munster  by  Belleforest  (ed.  of  1570), 
and,  with  the  exception  of  some  rare  charts,  does  not  contain 
anything  of  special  interest  to  bibliographers.  The  compiler 
mentions  as  the  rarest  books  in  the  collection,  Heylin's  Cosmog 
raphy,  the  Peter  Martyr  of  1533,  a  De  Bry,  a  Ramusio,  a  Pur- 
cbas,  a  Laet,  a  Torquemada  and  an  Ogllby. 

The  collected  voyages  of  Levinus  Hulse  or    Hulsius77  may 
be  considered   an   imitation78   of  that   of  De   Bry, 

A        A  OTT 'p'n 

'  x  although  it  is  superior  to  this  highly-prized  collec 

tion  in  many  respects,  and,  what  is  of  greater  im 
portance  to  collectors,  much  more  difficult  to  complete.  It  is 
in  the  German  language,  and  devoted  chiefly  to  the  voyages  of 
the  Dutch.  Camus7?  states,  on  the  authority  of  Meusel80,  that 
"  Hulsius  a  employe  pour  cooperateurs  quelques-uns  de  ceux 
qui  1'avaient  ete  par  de  Bry,  entre  autres  Gothard  Arthus." 

Although  mentioned  as  rare  and  valuable  as  far  back  as 
Haller81,  it  was  only  in  1833  that  a  bibliographer  attempted  to 
do  for  Hulsius  what  Camus  had  so  successfully  done  for  De 
Bry.  Mr.  A.  Asher,  a  Berlin  bookseller,  who  had  collected  the 


75  Session   Laws  of  the   State   of  New  blicum    ab,    that   1602   eine    Reise   nach 

York,  for  1845,  p.  72.     Documents  of  the  Holl.  und  Engelland,  liess  sich  hernach  zu 

Assembly,  1845,  Doc.  n.  Franckfurt   am    Mayn   nieder;    und   starb 

78  Bibliotheca  Americana,  being  a  choice  um  1606,"  QOCHER,  on  the  authority  of 

collection   of  Books   relating   to    North    and  VALER.  ANDREAS). 

South  America  and  the  West  Indies,  includ-  7S  "  ad    imitationem    operis     hojlocporici 

ing    Voyages    to   the   Southern    Hemisphere,  fratrum  de  Bry."     FREYTAG,  Analecta,   p. 

Maps,  Engravings  and  Medals ;  Paris,  1831,  47  3 . 

8vo,    pp.    139.      Reprinted,    Paris,    1840,  79  Memoire  sur  De  Bry,  p.  23,  note. 

8vo,  pp.  124.  80  Bibliotheca   Historica,  Vol.  n,  Part  I, 

77  "ein  Geographus  und  Mathematicus  p.  337. 

von    Gent,  gieng    um    1590   nach  Niirn-  81  "  quo  toms  26  prodiit,  quae  rarissima 

berg,  gab  daselbst  einen  Informator  in  der  est   edito."      Bibliotheca    Botanica.    Tiguri, 

frantzosischen  Sprache  und  Notarium   pu-  1771-72,  410,  Vol.  I,  p.  378. 


Introduction.  xxvii 

fine  set,  afterwards  sold  to  Mr.  Thomas  Grenville,  first  pub 
lished  a  brief  memoir81,  which,  six  years  later,  was  enlarged 
and  printed  in  4to8j.  Although  full  of  interest,  and  a  praise 
worthy  effort  in  the  proper  direction,  this  description  is  not  as 
reliable  as  hypercritical  collectors  would  desire8*.  It  is  therefore 
necessary  to  add  to  Asher's  Memoir  the  collations  published  by 
Quaritch85,  the  London  bookseller  ;  although  these  covers  only 
the  first  editions  of  Hulsiuses. 

Of  late  the  attention  of  collectors  of  American  books  seems 

to  be  concentrated  on  perfect  sets  of  De  Brys, 

O'CALLAGHAN.   TJ  ,  •  ,  T      .    ,  D  /    .         -ru    i  „ 

0  Hulsiuses  and  Jesuits   Relations.     1  he  latter  are 

1047  • 

certainly  the  most  valuable,  if  not  the  most  in 
viting  to  the  eye,  and  deserve  the  solicitude  of  collectors,  inas 
much  as  there  is  not  a  perfect  set  to  be  found  anywhere.  As 
our  readers  are  doubtless  aware,  these  Relations  are  the  annual 
reports  sent  by  the  Superiors  in  Canada  to  the  Provincials  at 
Paris,  from  1632  to  1672,  and  contain  interesting  accounts  of 
the  progress  of  the  Jesuit  missionaries,  among  the  Indians,  as 
well  as  trustworthy  details  concerning  the  geography  of  the 
country,  the  different  tribes,  their  customs,  languages  and  tradi 
tions.  The  only  bibliographical  account  which  we  could  find 
of  these  Jesuit  Relations,  is  a  paper  read  by  Dr.  E.  B.  O'Calla- 

82  A  short  Bibliographical  Memoir  of  the  ist,  with  variations   only  in  the  title  and 
Collection  of  Voyages  and  Travels  published  prel.  11.),  instead  of  1627.     The  earliest 
by    Lc-vinus    Hulsius,    at    Nuremberg    and  issue  of  the  3d  edit,  of  Part  v  is  1603,  in- 
Francfort,  from    1598    to    1650.      By   A.  stead  of  1612.     There  is  no  dedication  to 
ASHER,  i.  /.,  1833,  8vo,  pp.  16;   extracted  Ander   Schiffahrt's    2d   voyage   (Nuremb., 
from   No.    35    of  his   Monthly  list  of  Old  1602);  the  text  in  Raleigh's  Guiana  (Part 
Books.  v,  1601)  is  in   18  pp.  instead  of  17.     In 

83  Bibliographical  essay  on  the  Collection  Part  iv,  1599,  there  are  fifteen  plates,  in- 
of   Voyages  and  Travels  edited   and  pub-  eluding  Schmidel's  portrait,  instead  of  "  six- 
lished  by  Lcvinus  Hulsius  and  his  successors,  teen   besides   the   portrait,"  &c.,  &c.      We 
at   Nuremberg   and   Francfort,  from   anno  are  sorry  to  say  that  bibliographers  are  ex- 
1598  to  1660.     By  A.  ASHER,  London  and  pected   to   take  notice  of   such   minutiae; 
Berlin,  1839,  4to,  3  11. +  118  pp.  nay,  these  often  constitute  the  only  stock 

84  For   instance,  the  1st  edit,  of  Part  v  of  knowledge  of  certain  collectors,  whose 
is  not    1601,  but    1599;  it  is  the  second  lynx  eyes  are  constantly  in  search  of  errors 
which  is  dated  1601,  instead  of  1603.    The  or  omissions  of  this  character. 

1st  edit,  of  Part  x  is  not  1613,  but  1608.  88  Collation  of  Hultius.  First  editions, 
The  ad  edit,  of  Part  xin  is  1617  (like  the  s.  I.  a.  a.,  410,  8  11. 


XXV111 


Introduction. 


ghan  before  the  N.  Y.  Historical  Society,  afterwards  published 
in  pamphlet  form86,  and  translated  into  French8?.  This  was  fol 
lowed  by  the  publication  of  an  annotated  list88,  mentioning 
where,  in  1853,  all  the  copies  then  known  could  be  consulted89. 
Dr.  O'Callaghan's  brief  disquisition  is  interesting,  and  as  full  as 
the  subject  and  the  knowledge  of  the  copies  at  the  time  could 
permit.  The  discovery  made  since  of  five  unknown  editions90, 


86  Jesuit    Relations    of  Discoveries    and 
other  occurrences  in  Canada  and  the  North 
ern    and    Western     States    of    the    Union. 
1632-1672.      By    E.    B.    O'CALLAGHAN, 
M.  D.;  New  York,  MDCCCXLVII,  8vo,  22 

PP- 

87  Relations    des    J'esuites    sur    les    De- 
couvertes  et  les  autres  evenements  arrives  en 
Canada,  et  au  Nord  et  a  f 'Quest  des  Etats- 
Unis    (1611-1672).      Par  h  DR.  E.   B. 
O'CALLAGHAN.      Traduit  de  /' 'Anglais  [by 
Father  Felix  Martin]   avec  quelques  [erro 
neous]  notes,  corrections  et  additions  ;  MONT 
REAL,  1850,  8vo,  70  pp. 

88  A  few  notes  on  the  Jesuit  Relations, 
Compiled  for  Private   Circulation,  by  E.  B. 
O'CALLAGHAN,   M.  D. ;    1850,   one  folio 
leaf. 

89  When   we   consider  the    extravagant 
price  now  paid  for  Relations,  it  is  interest 
ing  to  learn  that  the  twenty-three  volumes 
left  by  SOUTHEY  sold,  at  his  death,  for  less 
than  <£8   the   entire  lot;    and  that  thirty 
more  were  purchased  at  Quebec  in  1851, 
for  $100. 

'°  They  consist  of  two  reprints  of  the 
time,  with  different  paginations,  &c.,  but 
no  change  in  the  text  of  the  Relation  of 
1638  ;  a  translation  into  Latin  of  the  Ra- 
guenau  Relation  of  1653,  forming  part  of: 
Progressus  fidei  Catholicae  in  Novo  Orbe. 
I.  In  Canada,  sive  Noua  Francia.  2.  In 
Cochin  China.  3.  In  Magno  Chinensi  Regno. 
De  quo  R.  P.  Nicolaus  Trigautius.  Soc. 
Jesu.  libris  V,  copiose  et  accurate  serif  sit, 
etc.  Colonite  Agrippime.  Joannem  Kin- 
chium,  1653,  I2mo,  60  pp. 

(Biblhtheca  Browniana,  Part  II,  p.  IIJ,No.  564.) 
And  the  two  following  : 

COPIE  DE  DEUX  ||  LETTRES  ||  ENVOIE'ES 

DELA  ||  NOVVELLE    FRANCE,  ||  Au    Pere    PrO- 

cureur  des  Millions  II  de  la  compagnie  de 
IESVS  en  ces  contrees.  II  A  PARIS  II  chez  Se- 
baftien  CRAMOISY,  Imprimeur  ordinaire  du 


Roy  et  GABRIEL  CRAMOISY.  rue  S.  lacques 
aux  Ci-  ||  cognes.  ||  M.DC  .  LVI  .  Auec  pri- 
uilege  du  Roy. 

*.£*  1 8  mo,  title  i  1 .  +  pp.  3-28. 

RELATION  ||  DE  ce  qui  f'eft  paffe  ||en 
la  Nouvelle  France  ||  en  1'annee  1634!! 
Enuoyee  au  R.  Pere  Provincial  de  la  Com 
pagnie  de  lefus  en  la  ||  Prouincc  de  France.  \\ 
Par  le  Pere  le  IEVNE  de  la  Compagnie, 
Superieur  de  la  ||  Refidence  de  Kebec.  || 
EN  AflGNON  ||  de  1'Imprimerie  de 
IAQUES  BRAMEREAV,  ||  Imprimeur  de  fa 
Sain<3ete,  de  la  Ville,  &  ||  Vniuerfite.  Auec 
permijjion  des  Superieurs  ||  M  .  DC  .  XXXvi . 

*x*  8vo,  title  i  1.  4-  4  unnumb.  11.  + 
pp  1-269;  then  pp.  291-336  for  Relation 
of  LE  JEUNE  of  1635;  pp.  337-392,  for 
Relation  de  ce  qui  s'est  passe  aux  Hurons  en 
Vannee  1635,  by  BREBEUF;  pp.  390—400, 
for  Relation  by  PERAULT  (1634-5);  pp. 
401-416,  for  Divers  Sentiments. 

The  first  part  corresponds  with  the  Le 
Jeune  Relation  of  1634  (Paris,  1635)  ;  the 
second  part  is  a  reprint  of  the  Relation  of 
1635  (Paris,  1636). 

These  two  reprints  and  Relations  are  in 
a  Private  Library  of  this  city  ;  the  Latin 
Raguenau  in  a  Private  Library,  Provi 
dence. 

As  to  the  Relation  of  1658-9,  vim.: 
Lettres  envoices  de  la  Nouvelle  France  au 
R.  P.  Jacques  Renault  Provincial  de  la 
Comp.  de  Jesus  en  la  Province  de  France. 
Par  le  R.  P.  Hier.  Lalemant,  etc.  ;  Paris, 
Sebastien  Cramoisy,  1660,  I2mo,j>p.  49  + 
2 ;  although  there  is  no  original  copy 
known  at  present,  there  was  one,  but  it 
was  destroyed  in  the  conflagration  of  the 
Parliamentary  Library  at  Quebec,  in  1854. 
Fortunately  a  collector  of  this  city  had  se 
cured,  a  short  time  previous,  a  manuscript 
copy,  which  he  caused  to  be  printed  in  fac 
simile,  at  Albany,  in  1854,  for  private  dis 
tribution. 


Introduction.  xxix 

and  the  scarcity  of  the  pamphlet,  render  a  reprint  of  this  valua 
ble  contribution  to  American  bibliography  necessary. 

But  it  was  not  until  1828  that  collectors,  acting  under  the  in 
fluence  of  Obadiah  Rich,  began  to  form  libraries  exclu- 

1832. 


R.ICH 

sively  composed  of  American  books.     This  bibliopole, 


whose  name  is  a  household  word  with  American  col 
lectors,  was  a  native  of  Boston,  Mass.  In  early  life  he  devoted 
himself  to  botanical  pursuits,  but  having  been  made  a  member 
of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  he  directed  his  attention  to  the 
study  of  bibliography,  which  "became  his  ruling  passion  through 
life."  In  1815  he  received  the  appointment  of  United  States 
Consul  for  Valencia,  in  Spain,  from  which  he  was  afterwards 
transferred  to  Madrid.  It  was  during  his  residence  in  Andalusia 
that  he  succeeded  in  forming  a  library,  which  Prescott,  Irving 
and  Ticknor  consulted  at  the  time  they  visited  Spain  for  the 
purpose  of  writing  the  works  which  have  rendered  their  names 
celebrated.  His  means  being  limited,  he  visited  London  at  in 
tervals  for  the  purpose  of  disposing,  by  private  sale  or  by  auction, 
of  the  rare  works  which  he  was  continually  collecting  in  Spain. 
It  is  to  this  circumstance  that  we  owe  the  formation  of  the  four 
greatest  collections  of  books  in  America91,  as  well  as  the  Amer- 


"  European  students  of  American  his-  cux*     This   contains  minute  descriptions 

tory  frequently  express  their  surprise  when  of  parts   of  Thevenot,  Hulsius,   De    Bry, 

informed  of  the  richness  of  certain  libra-  Relations,  as  well  as  Columbus  and  Cortes 

ries  in  this  country;  but  they  forget  that  Letters.      It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  after 

the   owners    commenced    collecting    forty  a  circulation  of  ten  years,  and  the  knowl- 

years  ago,  at  a  time  when  collectors  abroad  edge  that  the  highest  price  in  the  market 

neglected  American   books,  and   were  loth  would  be  paid,  not  twenty  numbers  were 

to  pay  prices  which  were  frequently  much      

below  the  bids  sent  from  America.     Our 

..  *  Livres    Cuneux.      Garrtgue  et    Cftristern.  Li- 

collectors    were  in    direct    correspondence  braim  Strangers;  New  York,  1854,  Svo,  pp.  37. 

with    De    Bure,   Rich    and  Asher ;     when  The  following  passage,  not  in  the  purest  French, 

traveling   abroad    they  never  neglected   to  explains  the  object  of  this  otherwise  valuable  cata- 

.  .       .  °        .......               ,     °    .          ,  logue :     "  Les  editions  specifiees  etant  les  seules 

visit  the    public   libraries,   and    notice    the  jont  on  a  besoin,  aucunes  autres   ne   pourraient 

editions  which  were  wanting  in  their  col-  etre  prises.     Les  offres  devraieiit  done  corresponds 

lections  ;   and  went  even  so   far  as  to  print  'xac1'"L'.nt  avec  les  Collations  donnees  ci-dessous. 

/-I.,                  i-   i  Les  differences  entre  les  differentes  editions  etant 

catalogues  of   desiderata,  which   circulated  quelquefois  tres-minimes,  les  descriptions  ont  etc 

freely    among    the    European    booksellers,  preparees  avec   grand  soin,  de  maniere   que   Ton 

It  is  one  of  these  which  Brunet  quotes  oc-  trouvera  indique  precisement  ce  qui  est  desire,  et 

„                             .  ,        c   r  •             •,     •  quelquefois  meme   les   particulantes    des   editions 

casionally,  under  the  title  of  Li-vres  Cun-  tres-semblables  mats  fauists,  qu'on  neveut  pas." 


XXX 


Introduction. 


ican  portion  of  the  Bibliotkeca  Grenvilliana,  which  contains  gems 
not  to  be  found  in  any  other  library.  These  four  American 
collections  are  located  as  follows  :  one  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  one  in  Washington  city,  and  two  in  New  York,  the 
Aspinwall  collection  having  been  removed  hither  from  Boston 
in  18639*. 

In  1828  Rich  removed  to  London,  where  he  opened  a  place 
of  business,  which  remained  as  such  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  although  in  1836  he  accepted  the  consulate  at  the  Balearic 
Isles,  and  fixed  his  residence  at  Port  Mahon,  attracted  thither 
chiefly  by  the  desire  of  examining  at  leisure  one  or  two  extensive 
private  libraries  in  that  vicinity.  The  business  meanwhile  was 
carried  on  under  the  superintendence  of  his  son,  Mr.  George 


obtained  out  of  a  list  of  two  hundred  and 
sixteen  mentioned  in  this  curious  catalogue, 
which  points  out  important  differences 
which  had  escaped  the  notice  of  previous 
bibliographers.  It  must  be  said,  however, 
that  the  books  asked  were  among  the 
rarest  known  ;  while  several,-)-  we  feel  cer 
tain,  had  not  been  seen  in  many  years  ! 

The  number  of  rare  and  valuable  works 
which  are  scattered  in  several  American 
libraries  is  considerable,  but  we  possess  five 
collections  exclusively  devoted  to  America, 
which,  as  far  as  we  have  been  able  to  as 
certain,  surpass  all  libraries  of  the  kind  in 
Europe.  These  are  the  collections  of 
Messrs.  J.  CARTER  BROWN,  in  Providence, 
SAMUEL  L.  M.  BARLOW,  in  New  York  city, 
PETER  FORCE,  in  Washington,  HENRY  C. 
MURPHY,  at  Owl's  Head,  Long  Island,  and 
JAMES  LENOX,  in  New  York  city.  We 
have  examined  all  these,  except  Mr.  Len 
ox's,  which  we  have  never  seen;  but  if  we 
may  judge  from  the  sundry  works  which 
the  owner  permitted  us  to  consult,  and 
from  conversational  remarks,  Mr.  Lenox's 
collection  stands  unrivaled. 

It  is  very  much  to  be  regretted  that 
none  of  these  great  libraries  are  catalogued. 
A  large-paper  Tcrnaux,  interleaved  and 
crammed  with  manuscript  additions,  seems 
to  afford  the  only  clue  to  those  bibliograph 
ical  treasures  ;  so  that  if  a  conflagration — 


f  See  Nos.  106,  109,  I4Z,  143. 


by  no  means  a  rare  occurrence  in  this 
country — should  destroy  these  collections, 
there  would  be  no  traces  whatever  left  of 
the  losses  thus  sustained  by  the  students  of 
American  history.  Let  us  state,  however, 
that  there  is  in  course  of  publication,  a 
catalogue  of  Mr.  J.  Carter  Brown's  library. 
We  quote  the  parts  already  printed  in  our 
work  under  the  title  of  Bibliothcca  Broivn- 
iarta,  but  the  real  title  is  as  follows  : 

Bibliotheca  Americana.  A  Catalogue  of 
Books  relating  to  North  and  South  America 
in  the  library  of  John  Carter  Brown,  of 
Pro-vidcncc,  R.  /.,  'with  Notes  by  JOHN 
RUSSELL  BARTLETTJ  Providence,  1866, 
8vo.  First  part  (Fifteenth  century),  pp. 
79,  302.  numbers.  Second  part  (up  to 
date),  pp.  1 80,  940  to  the  year  1685. 

The  richness  of  this  collection  in  Co 
lumbus,  Vespuccius  and  Cortes  epistles,  in 
Las  Casases,  De  Brys,  Hulsiuses,  Jesuits  Re 
lations  and  colonial  pamphlets,  will  not 
fail  to  excite  the  admiration  of  scholars, 
and  the  envy  of  European  collectors. 

92  One  of  the  earliest  collections  of  books 
on  America  was  formed  by  Coh  THOMAS 
ASPINWALL,  for  nearly  thirty  years  U. 
S.  Consul  at  London.  Extremely  well 
versed  in  the  colonial  history  of  his  coun 
try,  a  bibliophile  of  great  tact  and  activity, 
Col.  Aspinwall  succeeded  in  collecting  a 
number  of  remarkably  rare  and  valuable 
works,  which  the  richest  libraries  at  home 
and  abroad  scarcely  surpassed.  During  one 


Introduction. 


xxxi 


Rich,  but  after  a  few  years  he  returned  to  London  and  resumed 
the  management  of  the  store  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  took 
place  in  February,  1850.  He  was  much  regretted.  A  gentleman 
by  birth  and  education,  Rich  was  a  very  different  man  from  sev 
eral  of  those  who  now  attempt  to  follow  in  his  wake.  Entirely 
reliable,  he  scorned  to  resort  to  the  dextrous  artifices  now  so 
much  in  vogue  to  enhance  the  price  of  a  book  ;  and  modest, 
because  he  was  really  learned,  he  never  thrust  himself  before  the 
public  or  worried  reading  communities  with  loud  and  egotistical 
appeals,  from  which  a  true  bibliophile  would  turn  with  disgust. 

The  bibliographies  published  by  Rich  are  only  lists,  chiefly 
composed  of  such  works  as  he  had  for  sale.  A  number  of  scarce 
books  are  inserted  at  the  end  of  each  year,  with  a  star,  which  is  un 
derstood  to  mean  that  some  of  the  works  were  not  in  Rich's  pos 
session,  but  in  that  of  Col.  Aspinwall.  The  first  of  his  catalogues^' 


of  his  visits  to  Paris,  in  1833,  Col.  Aspin 
wall  had  printed  a  succinct  catalogue*  of 
his  library,  which  he  withheld  from  circu 
lation.  Afterwards  the  collection  was  in 
creased  threefold,  and  another  catalogue 
made,  but  it  remained  in  manuscript. 
This  fine  library  was  sent  to  Boston,  and, 
in  1863,  purchased  by  a  gentleman  of  this 
city.  Unfortunately  thirty-five  hundred 
out  of  nearly  four  thousand  volumes  were 
destroyed  in  the  conflagration  which  con 
sumed  the  establishment  of  Bangs  Bro 
thers,!  w^ere  the  books  had  been  tempo 
rarily  stored  after  their  arrival.  Let  us 
hasten  to  say,  however,  that  the  gems  of 
the  collection,  which  had  been  sent  in  ad 
vance  and  brought  to  the  mansion  of  the 
purchaser,  were  saved,  and  still  grace  the 
shelves  of  the  library  of  the  friend  to 
whom  we  dedicate  this  work.  These  con 
sist  in  what  we  consider  the  first  edition 
of  de  Cosco's  Latin  version  of  Columbus' 
Epistle  to  Raphael  Sanchez  ;  Madrig- 
nano's  and  Ruchamer's  translations  of  Fra- 
canzio  da  Montalboddo's  Pacsi  nouamcntc 
retro-vat!^  Gruniger's  edition  of  Waltze-mul- 
ler's  Cosmographia  Introduction  an  extreme 
ly  full  and  complete  Latin  De  Bry  ,•  the 
uniques  Waymouth  and  Bereton  pamphlets; 
the  Earl  of  Warwick's  large  paper  copy  of 


Smith's  History  of  Virginia ;  an  exten 
sive  collection  of  colonial  pamphlets  relat 
ing  to  New  England  and  Virginia,  and  a 
number  of  such  works,  besides  the  well- 
known  folio  volumes  of  original  manu 
scripts  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries.  J 

93  A  Catalogue  of  Books,  relating  princi 
pally  to  America,  arranged  under  the  years 
in  which  they  ivere  printed ;  London  :  0. 
Rich,  12,  Red  Lion  Square,  1832,  129  pp. 

— Books  relating  to  America,  1493-1700; 
Supplement,  8vo,  8  pp. 

— Booksrelating  to  America,  1493-1700, 

i6pp. 

— Bibliotheca  Americana  Nova  ,•  or,  a 
catalogue  of  books  in  -various  languages,  re 
lating  to  America,  printed  since  the  year 
1700.  Compiled  principally  from  the  works 
themselves  by  0.  Rich,  &c.  j  London  :  0. 
Rich,  12,  Red  Lion  Square  ;  Neiu  York: 
Harper  and  Brothers,  82  Cliff  Street,  1835. 


*  Catalogue  of  books  relating  to  America  in  the 
collection  of  Col.  Aspinwall,  Consul  of  the  United 
States  of  America  at  London;  8vo,  s.  a.  a.  I. 
[Paris,  1833],  pp.  66,  771  numbers. 

t  September  i8th,  1864. 

t  A  number  of  these  works  are  described  in  our 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana  ;  New  York,  MDCCCLXIV. 
Sm.  8vo,  pp.  35.  Only  four  copies  printed. 


xxxii  Introduction. 

contains  four  hundred  and  eighty-six  books  printed  before  1700, 
and  beginning  with  a  Leipsic  Vespuccius,  which  is  not  mentioned 
anywhere  else.  This  was  followed  by  two  supplements,  in  which 
we  notice  the  Imago  Mundi  of  Alyaco,  Lilius'  Orbis  compendia  and 
several  works  on  Guaicum  wood,  none  of  which  are  entitled 
to  a  place  in  an  American  library.  Three  years  later,  Rich 
published  the  first  volume  of  his  Bibliotheca  Americana  Nova, 
which  was  completed  in  1846.  The  edition  of  this  valuable 
work  was  limited  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  copies.  The  books 
are  arranged  in  chronological  order,  with  a  new  set  of  numerals 
for  each  series,  and  he  does  not  limit  himself  to  works  which 
come  to  his  personal  notice,  but  borrows  from  Meusel,  Warden, 
Kennett,  and  even  Reid's  imperfect  compilation,  indicating  how 
ever,  the  source. 

The  Bibliotheca  of  Rich  naturally  brings  to  mind  the  Biblio- 

tkeque  Am'ericaine  of  Ternaux?*.    All  we  could  learn 
ERNAUX.     concerning  Henri  Ternaux,  afterwards  called  Ter- 

naux-Compans,  is  that  he  was  once  secretary  of 
legation?*,  and  that  he  died  in  December,  I864-96.  This  pains 
taking  compiler,  collector  and  translator,  is  said  to  have  been 
the  owner  of  the  remarkable  library  which  was  sold  at  auction 


In  the  copy  before  us  there  is  a  second  98  QUERARD,  La  France  Litteraire,  Vol. 

title,  as  follows :  ix,  p.  374. 

— Bibliotheca  Americana  Nova.  Acata-  *6  VAPEREAU,  Dictionnairc  des  Contem- 

logue  of  books  relating  to  America,  in  -various  porains,  3d  edit.  We  have  vainly  searched 

languages,  including  voyages  to  the  Pacific  for  biographical  details  concerning  TER- 

and  Round  the  World,  and  Collections  of  NAUX  in  the  Bulletins  de  la  Societe  de  Geog- 

voyages  and  Travels  Printed  since  the  Tear  raphie,  and  as  late  as  the  number  for  June, 

1700.  Compiled  principally  from  the  works  1865  (which  is  the  latest  we  could  find  in 

themselves,  by  0.  Rich,  &c.,  Vol.  I,  1701-  the  city),  there  was  no  mention  even  of 

1800;  London:  Rich  and  Sons,  12,  Red  his  death.  Surely  this  painstaking  com- 

Lion  Square,  1846.  8vo,  4  prel.  11.  +  424  piler,  who  translated  and  published  that 

+  93  PP-  f°r  Supplement,  dated  1841  ;  and  long  series  of  useful  Voyages,  Relations  et 

Index.  M'emoires  originaux  pour  servir  cTTHhtoirc 

Vol.  ii  (same  title),  1801-1844,  412  delaDecouvertederAmeriyue,andtheAr- 

pages.  chives  des  Voyages,  deserved  at  least  a  pass- 

94  Bibliothtqut  Am'ericaine  ou  Catalogue  ing  notice  We  do  not  know  what  has 

des  ouvrages  relatifs  a  f  Am'erlque  qui  ont  been  done  since  in  France  in  this  respect, 

paru  depuis  sa  decouverte  jufqu'a  ran  1700  but  in  America  we  can  count  on  our  fingers 

par  H.  TERNAUX;  Paris,  M.DCCC.XXXVII.  those  who  know  that  Ternaux  is  no  longer 

8vo,  viii  +  191  pp.,  1153  numbers.  in  the  land  of  the  living! 


Introduction.  xxxiii 

under  the  name  of  Raetzel  in  November,  183697;  and  the  fact 
is  that  all  the  items  bearing  a  date  anterior  to  the  year  1700  are 
included  in  his  well-known  Bibliotheque.  The  latter  is  a  bib 
liography,  comprising  a  description  of  eleven  hundred  and  fifty- 
four  works,  arranged  chronologically,  and  beginning  with 
Plannck's  corrected  edition  of  Columbus'  Letter  to  Sanchez?8. 
The  titles  are  abridged,  and  followed  by  a  translation  into 
French  of  the  truncated  titles.  Occasionally  a  note  is  added, 
which  is  generally  of  little  value.  Many  of  the  works  men 
tioned  had  been  in  Ternaux's  possession,  but  we  are  sorry  to 
say  that  we  can  cite  several  which  never  existed9?,  and  these 
(owing  to  the  untoward  circumstance  that  Ternaux's  imaginary 
description  of  them  was  copied  by  all  subsequent  bibliographers) 
were  the  cause  of  a  great  deal  of  labor  and  time  wasted  on  our 
part.  These  defects  render  Ternaux's  compilation  much  inferior 
to  Tromel's,  which,  for  the  period  it  covers,  is  one  of  the  best 
American  bibliographies  ever  published. 

Paul  Tromel,  who  died  lately,  was,  we  are  told,  one  of  the 

editors  of  the  Serapeum,     His  Bibtiotbeque100  gives  a 
o/-  description  of  books  collected  chiefly  by  Muller  of 

Amsterdam,  and  offered    for  sale  by   Brockaus  of 

87  Catalogue  des  li-vres  et  manuscrits  de  la  et  notre  ami  M.  Thomas  Wright  n'a  pas 

bibliotheque   de  feu    M.    R.ETZEL  ;    Paris,  eu    plus   de   succes  dans  les  investigations 

1836,    8vo,    249    pp.       Part    relating    to  qu'il  a  faites  par  lui-meme  ou  par  ses  amis 

America  from  No.  908  to  2,117.  dans  ^es  bibliotheques  les  plus  renommees 

89  Our  No.  4.  de    Londres,    de   Cambridge    et   d'Oxford. 

89  Bibliotheque  Am'ericaine,  Nos.  11,44,  Nous    n'osons  guere    esperer    un    meilleur 

47,  47  bis.     It  seems  that  we  are  not  the  resultat    des    verifications  que  nous   avons 

only  victims  of  this  wild  chase  after  imag-  demandees  a  Vienne  et  a  Venise."    D'Av- 

inary  editions.     A  supposed  second  volume  EZAC,  Introduct.  to  his  valuable  edition  of 

of    Ramusio,    dated     1564,   which    rests  DU    PLAN   DZ   CARPIN'S   Historia    Monga- 

solely  on   the   authority  of  Ternaux   (loc.  lorum,  in  Recueil  de  Voyages  et  de  M'emoires 

cit.,  p.  13 — repeated   in   the   Manuel  and  de  la  Soci'et'e  de  Geographic,  Vol.  iv,  p.  435, 

Tr'esor),     caused    this     interesting     note :  note  I. 

"  Nous   n'avons  pu  en  decouvrir  un   seul  °°  Bibliotheque   Am'ericaine.      Catalogue 

exemplaire  a  Paris,  malgre  des  recherches  raisonn'e  d"unc   Collection  de  litres  frecieux 

opiniatres  dans  les  grandes  bibliotheques  et  sur  FAm'erlque  parus  depuis   sa   decou-verte 

dans  les  plus  riches  collections  d'amateurs  ;  [?]  jusqua  ran  1700,  en  vente  chez  F.  A. 

nous  n'avons  pas  ete  plus  heureux  dans  le  Brockhaus   a   Leipzig.     Redig'e   par    PAUL 

depouillement    des    catalogues    des  biblio-  TROMEL;    Leipzig,    1861,   8vo,   pp.   xi  + 

theques   des   principales  villes   de  France;  133. 


xxxiv  Introduction. 

Leipzig,  and  contains  four  hundred  and  thirty-five  items,  arranged 
in  chronological  order,  and  enriched  with  notes,  extracts  and 
minute  collations,  which  betray  the  hand  not  only  of  an  expert 
bibliographer,  but  of  a  trustworthy  scholar.  The  collection  is 
especially  rich  in  books  on  New  Netherland  (New  York)  and 
in  Dutch  works  relating  to  Brazil.  We  notice  among  the 
early  rarities,  the  St.  Diey  September  edition  of  Waltze-miiller's 
Cosmographies  introductio,  Ruchamer's  translation  of  the  Paesi,  and 
a  Basle  1532  Novus  Orbis,  with  the  map. 

Before  mentioning  the  special  bibliographies,  it  behooves  us  to 
notice  a  sumptuously-printed  and  illustrated  descrip 
tion  of  several  of  the  earliest  and  rarest  books  relating 
to  America.    This  valuable  contribution  to  American 
bibliography  forms  an   appendix  to  the   New   York  reprint  of 
Scillacio's  account  of  Columbus'  second  voyage101,  and  describes 
with  extreme  minuteness  and  accuracy  our  Nos.   I,  2,  3,  4,  5, 
6,  8,  9,  15,  1 6,  19,  36  and  115. 

We  are  inclined  to  believe  that  there  are  bibliographies  of 
local  history  for  all  sections  of  the  American  continent,  as  well 
as  of  the  adjacent  islands  ;  but  the  only  ones  which  have  come 
to  our  notice  are,  for  Paraguay,  the  small  pamphlet  prepared 
by  Alexander  Dalrymple ;  for  Canada,  the  Catalogue  of  Fari- 
bault ;  for  Cuba,  the  dissertations  of  Bachiler ;  for  New  Nether- 
land,  the  essays  of  G.  M.  Asher ;  for  Guyana, 
DE  NOUVION.  _  __.  „. 

>    AVAGOUR        e  wor*cs  °*   victor  de   JNouvion102  and  or  L/u 

DA  SILVA.         Pare  d'Avagour10';  for  Brazil,  the  important  dic- 

ACOSTA.  tionary  of  Da  Silva104 ;  for  Nueva-Granada,  the 

*f~\ 

Compendia  of  Joaquin  Acosta105;  and   for   Pata- 


101  Nicolaus  Syllacius  De  Insults  Meridian!  los  La  France  rendue  Jlorissante  par  la 

atque  Indict  Marts  Nuper  Invcntis.     With  Guy  one  j   Paris,  1852.,  8vo.     Liste  de  320 

a  translation  into  English  by  the  Rev.  JOHN  auteurs,  pp.  40-48. 

MULLIGAN,  A.  M.;  New  York,  1859,  fol.  104  Dice  ion.  bibliogr.  portug.  Estud.  de  IN- 
and  410,  105  +  lxiii  pp.,  Portrait +28  fac-  NOC.  FRANC.  DA  SILVA  afflicaveis  a  o  Par- 
similes.  (Privately  printed.)  tug.  e  Brasil;  Lisbva,  1858-62,  7  vols.,  8vo. 

loa  Extrait  des  auteurs  et -voyageurs  qui  ont  105  Compendia   del  descubrimiento  y  colo- 

ecrit  sur  la  Guy  ant ,  sui-vi  du  Catalogue  bib-  nixacion  de  la  Nue-va-Granada  en  el  siglo 

liographique  de  la  Guyane ;  Paris,  1844,  8  vo.  decimosexto;   Paris,  1848,  8vo. 


Introduction.  xxxv 

gonia,  the  notices  scattered  over  the  great  work  of  Alcide 
D'Orbigny106.  The  first  four  of  these  deserve  an  extended 
notice. 

The  history  of  Paraguay,  not  only  under  the  domination  of 

the  Jesuits    from    1556   to   1767,  but  from   the 

DALRYMPLE.      .  c     .          ,   ,    ,  .     .  ,  T, 

o  time  when  bpam  ceded  this  rich  country  to  ror- 

tugal  to  the  beginning  of  our  century,  when  it 
was  again  a  Spanish  possession,  soon  to  become  a  republic, 
presents  features  of  uncommon  interest.  The  thin  pamphlet 
prepared  by  Alexander  Dalrymple,  the  well-known  English  geog 
rapher,  found  therefore  a  ready  sale,  and  is  not  now  easily 
obtained.  It  is  a  small  catalogue107,  devoted  exclusively  to 
works  treating  of  Rio  de  la  Plata  and  Paraguay,  arranged  in  the 
order  of  dates,  from  1534  to  1806,  with  supplements,  the  last 
of  which  was  published  only  a  few  months  before  Dalrymple's 
death.  The  list  is  only  Pinelo-Barcia's,  enlarged  with  few 
additions,  taken  chiefly  from  Muratori's  "  Cristianisimo  Felice, 
and  such  books  as  the  compiler  could  find  in  the  British 
Museum. 

108  UHomme  Americain  consid'er'e  sous  les  On  page  810  : 

rapports  physiologiques  et  moraux  ;     Paris,  Histoire  physique,  economique  et  politiquc 

1839,  8vo,  2  vols. -)- atlas.  da    Paraguay  et  des  etablissements  des  J'e- 

DR.  JULIUS  PETZHOLDT  cites  in  his  Bib-  suites  ,•    accompagn'ee    fune    Bibliographic  ,• 

liotheca  Bibliographica,  par  L.  ALFRED  DEMERSAY,  Tom.  I ;  Paris, 

On  page  807  :  1800,  large  8vo. 

Centra- Amerika.      Nach  deft  gegenwiirti-  On  page  8 1 2. : 

gen  Zustanden  des  Landes  und  Volkes,  in  Be-  Haiti,    ses    progres,    ion    avcnir,    avec 

mic hung  der  beiden  Oceaneundim  Interesseder  un   precis    historique    sur    ses    constitutions, 

deutschen  Auswanderung  bearbeitet  <von  C.  le     texte     de     la    constitution    actutllement 

F.  REICHARDT;   Braunschweig,  1851,  8vo.  en    -vigueur  et   unc   bibliographic   d"  Haiti  ; 

Enthalt  C.  255-56:    Die  neuere  Litcratur  par  ALEXANDRE  BONNEAU  ;    Paris,    1862, 

iiber  (Centra- Amerika.      Die   neuercn  Schrif-  8vo. 

ten  iiber  die  Berbindung  der  beiden  Octane.  On  page  813  : 

On  page  808  :  Catalogue  d'un   Choix  de  Li-vrcs  rclatifs 

Wandcrungcn  durch  die  mittcl-amerikan-  a  rAmeriquc  et  particuliercmcnt  aux  Anti- 

ischen  Freistaaten  Nicaragua,  Honduras  und  quites  et  a  fHistoire  naturcllc  du  Mexique  ; 

San   Salvador.     Mil  Hinblick  auf  deutsche  Paris,  1857,  8vo. 

Emigration  und  deutschen  Handel, -von  Q.A.9.1.  "  Eine  Kleine,  aber  gut  gewahlte   und    geord- 

SCHERZER;  Braunschweig,  1857,  8vo.   Ent-  nete  Sammlungvon  180  Nrr.  ' 

halt   C.    510—12:    Bibliographischcs    Ver-  m  Catalogue  of  Authors  who  ha-ve  ivrit- 

zeichniss  der  neueren   und  neuesten    Werke  ten  on  Rio  de  la  Plata,  Paraguay,  and  Chaco, 

und  Abhandlungen  uber  die  funf  Freistaa-  collected  by  A.  DALRYMPLE;  London,  1807- 

tcn  Central- Amerikas.  8,  410,  17+3  +  2  pp. 


xxxvi  Introduction. 

George  Barthelemy  Faribault,  an  attorney  at  Quebec,  pub 
lished  in  1837,  a  catalogue  in  three  parts108,  giv- 
*  ARIBAULT.  jn^  jn  alphabetical  and  chronological  orders,  a 
list  of  works,  clipped  chiefly  from  booksellers' 
catalogues,  and  enriched  with  notes  borrowed  from  Pinkerton, 
La  Richarderie,  and  Michaud's  Blographie  Unlverselle.  The  first 
two  parts  contain  nine  hundred  and  sixty-nine  articles,  the  third 
is  devoted  to  maps  and  plans.  Judging  from  the  sign  affixed  to 
the  titles,  and  indicating  that  the  works  are,  or  were,  in  the 
library  to  which  Faribault  had  access,  not  one  tenth  of  the 
books  described  seem  to  have  been  examined  by  the  author. 
The  list  abounds  in  errors  of  all  kinds10?. 

To   New   Yorkers,  G.   M.  Asher's    series   of  memoirs   on 
Dutch  books  relating  to  New-Netherlands110  is 

'"   '     a   very   valuable   compilation.      It   was   under- 
1054* 

taken   for    Frederick  Muller,   the   Amsterdam 

bookseller,  and  compiled  chiefly  from  works  which  he  had  for 
sale  at  the  time ;  but,  owing  to  a  quarrel  between  the  compiler 
and  his  employer,  the  series  never  was  completed.  Although 
the  section  relating  to  maps  and  charts  bears  on  the  cover  the 

108  Catalogue  (fouvrages  sur  fhlitoire  de  Orbe    Novo,    Decades    tres  :    Bale,    1516, 
rAm'erique,  et  en  particulier  sur  celle  du  Ca-  1590;   Paris,  1532,  in-4.  1536,  in-fol. 
nada,dc  la  Louisiane,  de  I' 'Acadie,  et  autres          373.   LAS  CASAS.      Brc-vissima  relacion  ; 
lieux,  ci-devant  connus  sous  le  nom  de  Nou-  Seville,  1532,  in-4,"  &c-i  &c- 
•vcllc-France  ;    avcc   des   notes  bibliograph-         These  errors  can  be  traced  to  BOUCHER 
iqucs,  critiques,  et  litt'eraires.     En  Trois  Par-  DE  LA  RICHARDERIE. 

ties.     Redige  par  G.  B.  FARIBAULT,  A-vo-  no  Prospectus  of  a  Bibliographical  and 

cat;  Quebec,  1837,  8vo,  aoy  pp.  Historical  Essay   on   the   Dutch    books  and 

109  As  an  instance:  Pamphlets  relating  to  Nctv-Ncthcrland,  and 
"  1 8.    ANGIADELO    (JEAN    MARIE)    Le  to  the  Dutch  West-India  Company ,  as  also 

Nouveau-Monde,  nouvellement  decouvert  on  the  Maps,  Charts,  &c.  of  Neiu-Ncthcr- 

par  Americ  Vespuce  :  (en  Italien.)  1519;  land.  Compiled  from  the  Dutch  public  and 

in-4.  Sans  lieu  d'impression On  a  pri-vate  libraries,  and  chiefly  from^the  col- 

publie  une  traduction  latine  de  cet  ouvrage,  lection  of  Mr.  Frederick  Muller  in  Amster- 

mais  on  n'a  pu  en  decouvrir  la  date  ni  le  dam.  By  G.  M.  ASHER  ;  Amsterdam  and 

lieu  d'impression;  en  voici  le  titre  :  New  York,  1854. 

19.  —  Mundus-Novus;  de  natura,  mori-  *%.*  4to>  PP-  120-)- a  11.  for  additions -|- 

bus  et  ceteris  istius  generis  gentiumque  in  a  large  map  of  the  country  -f-  i  1.  for  title 

Novo-Mundo autore  Americo  of  A  List  of  The  Maps  and  Charts  of  Ne-w- 

Vespucio,  r«-l6.  Netherland  +  20  pp.  +  12  11.  for  List  of 

15.   ANGHIERA.     De  Rebus  Oceanis  et  Names. 


Introduction.  xxxvii 

title  of  Parts  IVth  and  Vth,  Part  IV  is  still  in  manuscript,  in 
the  possession  of  M.  Muller.  As  far  as  the  compilation  ex 
tends,  it  must  be  considered  a  bibliographical  contribution  of 
great  merit  and  usefulness.  In  consequence  of  the  compiler's 
extreme  unpopularity,  his  publications  are  frequently  assailed  ; 
but  we  have  only  to  judge  a  work  on  its  merits,  and  freely 
confess  that  bibliophiles  must  go  as  far  back  as  Camus  to  find 
a  bibliography  which  can  favorably  compare  with  M.  G.  M. 
Asher's  Essay. 

As  the  compiler  had  access  to  the  Dutch  public  and  private 
libraries,  it  is,  however,  surprising  that  he  should  have  com 
menced  the  list  with  de  Laet's  Nieuwe  Wereldt.  There  are 
works  relating  to  New-Netherland  of  an  earlier  date.  As  far  as 
we  can  ascertain,  the  first  book  of  this  character  is  the  supple 
mentary  volume  of  Emanuel  Van  Meteren's  history  of  the 
Netherlands111,  which  was  published  in  1611,  and  contains  the 
first  account  that  appeared  in  print  of  Hudson's  voyage  for 
the  East-India  Company.  Mr.  Asher  also  omits  the  Hudson 
tract  of  i6i2IIZ  and  its  Latin  editions"3.  There  are  several 
more  omissions  of  the  same  character,  which  we  leave  to  those 
who  devote  themselves  to  the  bibliography  of  this  section  of  the 
country  to  point  out.  The  reader,  however,  is  doubtless  aware 

111  Bclgischc  ofte  Nederlantsche  Oorlogen  Ende  een  Memoriae/,  gcfrescnteert  aan  den 

ende   Gcschicdcnisscn  beginnende  van't  jacr  Coningh  van  Sfaengien,  bclanghcndc  de  ont- 

1595  tot  1611,  mede  vervatende  enighe  ge-  deckingc  ende  ghclcghcnheyt  van* t  Land ghc- 

buercn  handclinphc.   Beschreven  door  EMAN-  naemt  Australia  Incognita,  f  Amsterdam  by 

UEL  VAN  METEREN.     Bij  hem  voor  de  leste  Hessel  Gerritsx.     Boeckvercoofer,  oft  Wa- 

reyse  o-vcrsic  verbetert  ende  vermeerdert  na  ter,  inde  Pascaert,  Anno  1612. 
die  co fie  gedruckt  of  Schotlant  buyten  Dans-  *%.*  4to,  40.  pp. +  3  maps. 
•wyck  by  Hermes  -van  Loven.  Voor  den  ns  Amsterdam,  1612;  4to,  46pp. +3 

Autheur  Anno  1611.  maps;   and  same  place,  1613,  410,  44  pp. 

*.£*  410,  sine   loco    (Dordrecht?),    360  +  4  maps,  text  entirely  re-written, 
numb.  11.  BLACK  LETTER.  We  borrow  these  titles  from  the  Hon. 

114  Beschryvinghe    van    der    Samoycdcn  HENRY  C.  MURPHY'S  extremely  interesting 

landtinTartaricn.  Nieulijcks  onder^t ghebiedt  and  valuable: 

der  Moscoviten  gebracht.     Wt   de   Russche          Henry  Hudson   in  Holland.     An  inquiry 

tale  overgheset,  Anno  1609.     Met  een  ver-  into  the  origin  and  objects  of  the -voyage  tuhich 

had  van  de  ofsoeckingh  ende  ontdeckinge  van  led  to  the  discovery  of  the  Hudson  River, 

de  nieuive  deurgang  ofte  straet  int  Noord-  With   bibliographical  notes.     The  Hague, 

ivesten  na  de  Rycken  van  China  ende  Cathay.  1859,  8vo,  pp.  72.     (Privately  printed.) 


xxxviii  Introduction. 

that  to  study  the  early  history  of  New-Netherland,  it  is  neces 

sary  to  go  beyond  the  Dutch  books,  and  commence  even  with 

Lescarbot  and  the  relation  of  Lord  Delaware.     The  field  is  ex 

tensive,  and  let  us  hope  that  one  of  the  three  New  York  bibli 

ophiles  who  possess  in  their  libraries  all  the  works  relating  to  the 

subject,  will  till  it  to  the  satisfaction  of  scholars  and  historians. 

The  bibliography  by  Senor  Bachiler  y  Morales"4  is  a  kind  of 

appendix  to  a  series  of  contributions  to  the  literary 

13 

L     '  historv  °f  Cuba,  describing  a  number  of  works  pub 


lished  in  the  island  from  the  time  of  the  introduction 
of  printing  thither  to  the  year  1840.  The  earliest  work  bears 
the  date  of  iy24"5,  but  it  seems  that  there  is  a  Havana  impres 
sion  of  lyao"6.  As  to  the  assertion  of  Ambrosio  Valiente"7 
that  printing  was  first  introduced  in  Santiago  de  Cuba  as  early 
as  1698,  we  apprehend  that  no  Cuban  book  of  the  seventeenth 
century  can  be  produced. 

Dr.  Hermann  E.  Ludewig,  a  Dresden  jurist  who  emigrated 

to  America  in  1844,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
g   /•          in  1856,  prepared  soon  after  his  arrival  a  bibliog 

raphy"8  of  works  relating  to  each  State  and  Terri 
tory  in  the  Union.  The  titles  are  arranged  by  states,  counties 
and  towns,  with  references  to  historical  collections,  numbering 
about  fourteen  hundred  volumes,  which  belong  chiefly  to  the 
present  century.  It  was  this  useful  work  which  prompted  the 
publication  by  Norton  of  a  series  of  local  bibliographies,  of  which 


114  Apuntes  para  la  Historia  de  las  Le-  m  "  Introduccion  de  la  imprenta,  1698. 

tras,  y  de  la  Instruction  publica  de  la  Isla  — Introducese  la  imprenta  en  esta  ciudad, 

de  Cuba.    For  ANTONIO  BACHILLER  Y  Mo-  primera  que  se  establece  en  la  Isla."    Tab/a 

KALES;   Habana,  1861,   8vo,  Part  m,  pp.  Cronologica  de  los  succsos  occurridos  en  la  ciu- 

121-241.  dad   de   Santiago    de    Cuba;     New   York, 

18  Meritos  que  ha  justificado  y  probado  1853,  I2mo,  p.  30. 

tlLd-v.  D.  Antonio  de  sossa,  &c. ;  Havana,  I8  The  literature  of  American  local  His- 

Imprenta  de  Carlos  Habre,  410.  tory ;  a  bibliographical  essay,  by  HERMANN 

16  "he  adquirido  casualmente   un   im-  E.  LUDEWIG;  New  York,  MDCCCXLVI,  8vo, 

preso  que  parece  de  1720  .  .  .  es  una  carta  xx+  180  pp.     First  Supplement  extracted 

de  esclavitud  a  la  Virgen  Santisima  del  Ro-  from    The  Literary  World,  for  Feb.  1 9th, 

sario,  sin  nombre  de  impresion."    Apuntes;  1848;    8vo,  pp.  20.     Relates  exclusively 

p.  121,  note.  to  New  York. 


Introduction.  xxxix 

we  have  seen  only  the  Bibliographies  of  New  Hampshire"?  and 
Maine120.  Mr.  J.  R.  Bartlett's  elaborate  Bibliography  of  Rhode 
Island111  shows  how  wide  a  field  local  bibliography  offers  to 
painstaking  bibliographers.  His  catalogue,  which  gives  a  list  of 
the  works  relating  to  one  of  the  smallest  States  in  the  Union, 
and  which  was  a  wilderness  a  couple  of  centuries  ago,  fills  not 
less  than  two  hundred  and  eighty-seven  octavo  pages.  The  de 
scriptions  were  all  made  from  the  original  works,  which  are, 
without  any  exception,  in  private  libraries  in  Rhode  Island. 
The  earliest  book  mentioned  is  Hakluyt,  on  account  of  Verra- 
zano's  description  of  Narragansett  Bay. 

As  Dr.   Ludwig  justly  remarked  "  Exotic  languages  are  no 
longer  considered  as  mere  matters  of  curiosity,  but 

1>  D  J  ' 

'     are  looked  upon  as  interesting  parts  of  the  natural 


history  of  man,  and  as  such  receive  their  share  of 

the  brilliant  light  which  modern  critical  studies  have  shed  upon 
the  natural  sciences  in  general."  No  other  reason  need  be 
adduced  for  including  in  our  list  his  enlarged  edition111  of  that 

118  By  S.  C.  EASTMAN,  in  Norton's  Liter-  Mr.  Taylor's  "  Bibliografa"  to  works  pub- 
dry  Letter;  New  Series,  1860,  No.  i,  pp.  lished   in  the  last   fifty  years,  are  useful; 
8-30.  but  as  regards    the   sixteenth  and    seven- 
no  By  WILLIAM  WILLIS,  1859,  pp.  n-  teenth  centuries,  the  compilation  is  of  no 
30.  value  whatever.      It    is  evident  that  the 
There  are  other  bibliographies   of  this  compiler  has  only  an  inadequate  notion  of 
character,  but  they  seem  to  be  scattered  in  the    works    which    he   jumbles    together, 
reviews  or  newspapers.    We  notice  the  fol-  Nothing    worth   preserving    will    ever    be 
lowing :  accomplished  in  bibliography  so  long  as  a 
Bibliografa   Calif  arnica  ;    or,  Notes  and  pair  of  scissors  is  deemed  the  only  requisite 
Materials  to  aid  in  forming  a  more  perfect  to  prepare  what  Mr.  Taylor  calls  a  "  Bib- 
Bibliography    of   those    countries    anciently  liografa." 

called  "  California,"  and  lying  "within   the  — Descriptive     Catalogue     of    Historical 

limits  of  the   Gulf  of  Cortes  to    the  Arctic  References  to  the  Valley  of  the  Mississippi, 

Seas  and  West  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  to  by  J.  M.  PECK.      (American  Pioneer,  Cin- 

the  Pacific  Ocean,  by  A.  S.  TAYLOR.     (Sac-  cinnati,   Vol.   n),  pp.   262-9,    314-323). 

ramento  Daily  Union,  for  June  25th,  1863.)  Begins  with  De  Soto  in  English  translations. 

— Continuation      (copyrighted),      same  lal    Bibliography   of  Rhode   Island.     A 

newspaper  for  Marcb  13,  1866.    The  com-  catalogue   of  Books   and   other   Publications 

piler  states  that  he  made  use  of  two  cata-  relating  to  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  tulth 

logues   in   the  Sacramento    Union  of  May,  notes,  historical,  biographical  and  critical  ,• 

1858,  in  the  Herald  of  June,    1858,  and  Providence,  1864,  8vo. 

of  a    partial   catalogue  of  works  on   the  1M  The  Literature  of  American  Aborig- 

Pacific    Ocean,  in    the    Polynesian   news-  inal  Languages.    By  HERMANN  E.  LUDWIG. 

paper  of  July,    1844.     The  references  in  With  additions  and  corrections  by  Professor 


xl  Introduction. 

part  of  Vater's  Linguarum  totius  orbis  index^  which  treats  of 
American  languages.  It  is  an  extremely  .valuable  compendium, 
eivinp-  the  titles  of  the  grammars  and  lexicons  devoted  exclu- 

O  O  D 

sively  to  the  aboriginal  idioms,  with  copious  references  to  the 
works  which  treat  of  the  subject  incidentally.  Not  less  than 
nine  hundred  tribes  are  represented  in  this  curious  collection, 
with  a  corresponding  number  of  bibliographical  authorities  ;  yet, 
if  we  may  be  permitted  to  judge  from  the  annotated  copy  which 
our  friend  Dr.  Berendt  is  preparing  for  the  press,  Dr.  Ludwig's 
work  does  not  cover  the  whole  ground,  nor  is  it  free  from 
mistakes  and  important  omissions.  Withal,  it  must  be  consid 
ered  a  compilation  of  unusual  interest. 

The  works  of  Messrs.  E.  G.  Squiers  and  Schoolcraft  belong 
to  this  class  of  bibliographies.     The  first  of  these143 

R  '     is  a  brief  account  of  one  hundred  and  ten  authors 
1861. 

who  wrote  on  the  languages  of  Central   America, 

followed  by  a  list  of  books  and  MSS.  relating  wholly  or  in  part 
to  the  history,  aborigines  and  antiquities  of  Central  America. 
The  biographical  notices  are  extracted  from  the  Biblioteca  of 
Beristain,  while  many  of  the  titles  are  derived  not  from  an 
examination  of  the  works  themselves,  but  from  the  notices  in 
Ramesal,  Vasquez,  Cogolludo,  Villagutierre,  De  Souza,  and 
similar  sources. 

As  to  Schoolcraft's124  list,  it  is  limited  to  the  works  composed 

and    printed    in    the    languages   of  the    Indians, 

SCHOOLCRAFT.  which  were  preserved  in  the  Department  of  the 

Interior    at   Washington,   and    simply   with    the 


WM.  W.  TURNER.  Edited  by  NICOLAS  m  A  Bibliographical  Catalogue  of  Books, 
TRUBNER.  (Part  I  of  "  Trubner^s  Biblio-  Translations  of  the  Scriptures,  and  other  pub- 
theca  Glottiea")  ;  London,  MDCCCLVIII,  8vo,  lications  in  the  Indian  Tongues  of  the  United 
pp.  xxiv +  258.  States;  with  brief  critical  notices.  By  H. 
128  Monograph  of  Authors  who  ha-ve  writ-  R.  SCHOOLCRAFT  j  Washington,  1849,  8  vo, 
ten  on  the  Languages  of  Central  America,  pp.  28  ;  afterwards  reprinted  with  additions 
and  collected  vocabularies  or  composed  works  in  Historic,  and  Statist.  Information  respect- 
in  the  native  dialects  of  that  country  ;  New  ing  the  Hist.  &c.  of  the  Indian  Tribes,  &c.  ; 
York,  M.D.CCC.LXI,  410,  pp.  xv+  53+  16  Philad.,  1851,  410,  Vol.  iv,  p.  523,  sy. 
for  appendix  and  index.  We  must  also  call  the  attention  of  our 


Introduction. 


xli 


view  of  obtaining  information  to  render  the  inquiry  more  com 
plete. 

We  know  of  several  other  catalogues,  some  of  which  are 
exclusively  composed  of  American  books,  while  a  certain  num 
ber,  although  covering  the  entire  field  of  history  and  literature, 
contain  many  valuable  titles  ;  but  they  are  chiefly  lists  prepared 
by  booksellers125,  or  catalogues  of  sale126,  and  to  notice  them 
all  would  so  enlarge  the  scope  of  our  work  as  to  remind  the 
reader  of  a  certain  verse  of  Juvenal127,  which,  we  greatly  appre 
hend,  will  be  uttered  at  all  events.  Several  extensive  collections, 
such  as  the  Scriptores  Ordinis  Minorum  of  Wadding,  the  Scrip- 
tores  Ordinis  Prezdicatorum  of  Quetif  and  Echard,  the  curious 
compilation  of  Stoecklein128,  the  dictionaries  of  Philip  Alegambe, 
Nathaniel  Southwell12?,  Foppens,  Nicholas  Antonio,  Barbosa 


readers  to  a  small  work  in  course  of  pub 
lication,  which  promises  to  be  a  valuable 
addition  to  comparative  Philology,  vix. : 

Apuntes  para  un  catdlogo  de  escritores  en 
Lenguas  indigcnas  de  America,  par  JOAQUIN 
GARCIA  ICAZBALCETA  5  Mexico,  1866, 
I2mo  ;  and  to 

— Noticia  de  las  personas  que  han  escrito 
6  publicado  algunas  obras  sobre  idiomas  que 
se  hablan  en  la  Rcpublica  \_De  Mexico],  for 
DR.  JOSE  GUADALUPE  ROMERO,  in  Boletin 
de  la  Sociedad  Mex.  de  Geogr.  Vol.  vui, 
1862,  pp.  374-386. 

Also  to  the  following,  although  it  re 
lates  chiefly  to  the  history  or  manners  of 
the  Indians : 

Catalogue  of  the  Private  Library  of  Sam 
uel  G.  Drake,  of  Boston,  chiefly  relating  to 
the  Antiquities,  History  and  Biography  of 
America,  and  in  an  especial  manner  to  the 
Indians,  collected  and  used  by  him  in  pre 
paring  his  Works  upon  the  Aborigines  of 
America',  Boston,  1845,  8vo. 

1118  The  following  from  a  New  England 
bookseller  settled  in  London,  is  printed 
with  remarkable  accuracy :  Historical  Nug 
gets  ||  Bibliotheca  Americana  or  a  descriptive 
account  of  my  collection  of  rare  books  relating 
to  America  ||  HENRY  STEVENS  G  M  B  F  s  A  || 
London,  MDCCCLXII,  I2mo,  xii  +  805  pp. 
in  two  vols  ;  2,9 34  items,  with  prices. 

Of    Stevens  s    American    Bibliographer, 


Chiswick,  1854,  8vo,  only  two  numbers 
were  published.  These  cover  96  pages, 
giving  a  number  of  titles  in  alphabetical 
order,  with  minute  collations,  a  map  and 
several  illustrations. 

126  The  Bibliotheca  Heberiana  and  the 
Courtanvaux  (Paris,  1783),  Hibbert,  Mon- 
didier  (London,  1851),  and  Butsch  (Augs 
burg,  1858)  catalogues  present  features  of 
great  interest  in  this  respect.  Vol.  vn  of 
the  Bibliotheca  Thottiana  contains  several 
titles  of  extremely  rare  works,  among  which 
a  Syllacio  (p.  223). 

1ST  "  Scriptus  et  in  tergo  necdum  finitus 
Orestes."  Satyr,  i.  6. 

198  Reiscbcschreibungen  -von  der  Missio- 
nariis  der  Gesellschaft  Jesu ;  Augsburg, 
1726,  fol.,  Vols.  i-xxxn. 

139  Bibliotheca  Scriptor.  Soc.  Jest)  ; 
Romae,  M.DC.LXXVI,  fol.,  describes  the  works 
of  not  less  than  2237  authors.  But  all 
these  bibliographies  of  Jesuit  writers  have 
been  superseded  by  the  following,  which  is 
fraught  with  reliable  notices,  both  bio 
graphical  and  bibliographical : 

AUGUSTIN    ET    ALOIS  DE    BACKER  ;    Bib- 

liotheque  des  Ecri-vains  de  la  Compagnie  de 
Jesus,  ou  Notices  Bibliographiques  de  tous 
les  outrages  publics  par  les  mcmbrcs,  Sec., 
Liege,  1853,  large  8vo.  We  know  of  six 
series,  each  one  forming  a  complete  collec 
tion  arranged  in  alphabetical  order. 


xlii 


Introduction. 


HUMBOLDT. 
1836-9. 


Machado  and  Fabricius,  as  well  as  the  Annales  of  Maittaire  and 
Panzer,  describe  a  great  many  works  relating  to  the  New  World, 
but  as  they  are  not  grouped  in  a  separate  division,  we  do  not 
include  them  in  this  list,  although  the  reader  will  find  in  the 
following  pages  frequent  references  to  those  valuable  collections. 
But  there  is  a  series  of  dissertations  which  all  American  bib 
liographers  and  historians  should  constantly  keep 
at  their  elbow.  It  is  the  Examen  Critique1*0  of  Hum- 
boldt.  This  noble  work,  which  we  consider  the 
greatest  monument  ever  erected  to  the  early  history  of  this  con 
tinent,  is,  despite  a  few  immaterial  errors131,  a  sure  guide,  which 
has  proved  to  us  an  inexhaustible  source  of  valuable  suggestions. 
The  bibliographical  notes  contained  in  the  Examen  are  not,  we 
confess,  in  keeping  with  the  learned  and  profound  dissertations 
which  we  can  never  cease  to  admire,  but  there  is  scarcely  a 
page  which  does  not  throw  a  vivid  light  upon  every  question 
connected  with  the  geography,  discovery  and  history  of  America. 
We  regret  to  say  that  the  manuscript  additions  which  were  to 
complete  the  work  are,  owing  to  the  culpable  remissness  of 
a  certain  American  bookseller  in  London,  probably  lost.  If  so, 
it  is  the  greatest  misfortune  which  could  befall  the  student  of 
American  History13*. 


180  Examen  Critique  de  I'Histoire  de  la 
Geographic  du  Nouveau  Continent  et  des 
Progres  de  F  Astronomic  Nautiquc  au  Quin- 
xiemc  et  Seixieme  Siecles  ;  Paris,  1836-39, 
8vo,  5  vols.,  with  sections  of  the  La  Cosa 
map.  Dedicated  to  ARAGO. 

The  Histoirc  de  la  Geographic  du  Nou 
veau  Continent,  Sec.,  Paris,  n.  d.  is  only 
composed  of  the  unsold  sheets  of  the 
above,  bound  in  two  volumes,  with  a  new 
title-page,  and  an  introduction  of  four 
pages,  but  without  the  sections  of  the  La 
Cosa  chart,  which  in  this  new  issue  are 
replaced  by  two  well-executed  maps  of 
this  continent. 

11  For  instance,  he  falls  into  the  error 
of  Capmnani,  Salazar,  Zach  and  others, 
who  give  the  title  of  Raymond  Lully's 


Libra  Felix  6  marawllas  del  mundo,  as  El 
Fenix  dc  las  mara-villas  del  mundo.  See 
D'AVEZAC,  Bulletin  de  la  Soci'et'e  de  G'eogr. 
for  October,  1857. 

13a  Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that 
the  most  important  cartographical  monu 
ment  concerning  the  New  World  is  the 
manuscript  chart  of  Juan  de  la  Cosa,  an 
extremely  skillful  pilot,  who  accompanied 
Columbus  in  his  second  voyage.  This 
map,  which  bears  the  inscription  "  Juan 
de  la  Cosa  la  fao  en  el  puerto  de  Sta  Maria 
enano  de  1500,"  was  discovered  in  1832,  by 
HUMBOLDT,  in  the  library  of  WALCKN^R, 
and  is  now  in  the  Royal  Library  of  Mad 
rid,  having  been  purchased  by  the  Queen 
of  Spain  for  4020  francs,  or  about  the 
tenth  part  of  the  sum  which  certain  Amer- 


Introduction. 


xliii 


IV. 


The  bibliographies  which  we  have  just  described  contain  a 
mention,  more  or  less  succinct,  of  nearly  all  the  works  relating 
to  America,  known  at  the  present  day ;  and  whatever  may  be 
their  incompleteness  or  imperfections,  they  must  be  considered 
a  source  of  indispensable  references.  But  it  is  a  question 
whether,  as  a  whole,  these  bibliographical  repertories  are  ade 
quate  to  the  wants  of  the  student  of  history.  Could  we  boast 
of  exhaustive  historical  compositions,  delineating  in  a  critical 
manner  the  annals  of  every  section  of  this  country,  and  pre 
paratory  to  a  comprehensive  history  of  the  entire  continent,  the 
necessity  for  a  complete  and  trustworthy  Bibliotbeca  Americana 
would  still  be  felt.  But  it  must  be  confessed  that  we  possess 


ican  collectors  have  frequently  offered  for 
a  De  Bry,  which,  as  a  work  of  reference, 
is  totally  worthless.  De  la  Cosa's  chart 
has  been  published  several  times,  but  never 
described  or  annotated.  Humboldt  prom 
ised  to  do  so.  "Je  n'anticiperai  pas," 
said  he,*  "  sur  les  renseignements  plus 
amples  que  je  dois  donner  sur  la  personne 
de  Juan  de  la  Cosa,  en  decrivant,  dans  la 
troiseme  section  de  cet  ouvrage,  la  mappe- 
monde  de  ce  celebre  navigateur."  That 
third  section  never  was  published ;  but 
after  Humboldt's  death,  his  library  (which 
was  composed  of  presentation  copies  of 
modern  works)  was  found  to  contain  a  set 
of  the  five  volumes  of  the  first  issue  of 
the  Examen,  which  the  compiler  of  the 
catalogue*^  described  as  "  having  numerous 
manuscript  additions  in  the  autograph  of 
the  author,  who  evidently  contemplated  a 
supplementary  volume."  This  assertion  is 
confirmed  by  the  following  note  in  the 
Cosmos : J  "  I  here  give  the  principal  re- 

*  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  HI,  p.  l8j. 
f  The   Humboldt  Library;    London,  1863,  8vo, 
11164  items,  No.  4658. 
J  Bonn's  edit.,  Vol.  II,  p.  6}i. 


suits  which  are  contained  in  the  sixth 
(still  unpublished)  volume  of  my  Examen 
Critique."  Steps  were  immediately  taken 
to  purchase  this  valuable  set,  with  the 
view  of  translating  the  work  into  English, 
and  of  adding  biographical  and  bibliograph 
ical  annotations,  which  are  now  embodied 
in  the  present  Bibliothcca  Americana  Ve- 
tustissima.  The  order  came  too  late,  as 
the  set  had  already  been  bought  by  a  gen 
tleman  of  this  city.  Unfortunately,  the 
work  was  not  delivered  at  the  time  of  the 
purchase.  Three  years  have  now  elapsed, 
and  Humboldt's  supplementary  volume  to 
the  Examen  Critique  is  still  missing.  It  is 
not  even  known  what  has  become  of 
those  precious  additions,  which  no  work, 
as  yet  written,  could  possibly  replace,  and 
without  which  the  early  history  of  Amer 
ica  can  be  only  imperfectly  studied  and 
analyzed.  We  sometimes  hear  the  name 
of  that  bookseller  praised  ;  but  let  the 
reader  imagine  the  bibliopoles  employed 
by  PEIRESC,  for  instance,  guilty  of  such 
gross  negligence,  what  calamities  would 
the  historian  of  Science  and  Literature 
have  to  record  ! 


xliv  Introduction. 

no  compositions  of  this  character.  True  it  is  that  we  find  here, 
in  almost  every  household,  works  which  purport  to  enlighten 
us  concerning  the  past  of  several  American  nations.  Some  of 
these  display  great  talents  and  still  greater  imagination  ;  others 
exhibit  style  and  research  ;  while  one,  which  is  perhaps  the 
most  common  of  all,  is  only  a  fulsome  panegyric,  pandering  to 
the  inordinate  vanity  of  a  certain  political  party  once  in  the 
ascendant,  and  bidding  for  the  author's  personal  promotion  to 
lucrative  office.  Who  can  say  that  these  works  will  maintain  their 
present  place  for  any  length  of  time  ?  History  with  us,  then,  still 
presents  an  open  field  ;  and  although  the  republics  and  empires 
now  in  existence  on  this  continent  do  not  offer  a  grateful  theme 
for  historical  compositions,  as  they  have  not  yet  passed  through 
all  the  phases  which  must  ever  constitute  the  elements  of  every 
history,  there  are  epochs  already  completed  which  await  the 
labors  of  historians.  We  allude,  among  other  subjects,  to  a 
history  of  the  rise,  decline  and  fall  of  the  Spanish  Empire  in  the 
New  World. 

The  first  requisite  in  the  preparation  of  works  of  this  character 
consists  of  a  bibliography,  which  is  to  the  historian  what  a  chart 
is  to  the  mariner1".  The  question  then  naturally  recurs,  What 
books  should  enter  into  this  bibliography  ?  It  would  seem,  at 
the  first  glance,  that  the  lists  should  be  confined  to  works 
relating  exclusively  to  America.  But  such  a  limitation  would 
compel  us  to  thrust  out  of  the  repertory  many  works  which 
are  of  paramount  importance  to  the  American  historian.  For 
instance,  in  the  correspondence  of  Peter  Martyr134,  there  are 
eight  hundred  and  sixteen  letters,  but  we  can  find  only  thirty 
which  relate  to  the  New  World ;  the  Polyglot  Psalter  of  Gius- 
tiniani135  is  a  huge  folio  containing  in  all  no  more  than  four 

133  "  Post  bibliothecarios  scriptores  veni-  grinaturo.     MORHOFF,   Polyhistor,  Lib.   i, 

unt  catalogorum  scriptores,  quorum  accu-  cap.  xvm,  Vol.  I,  p.  196  of  Fabricius' edit, 
ratior  notitia  ita  necessaria  est  polyhistori,  S4  No.  1 60. 

ut  mapparum  geographicarum  cognitio  pere-  3B  No.  88  bis. 


Introduction.  xlv 

columns  which  historians  of  the  New  World  need  to  con 
sult  ;  nearly  one  half  of  the  celebrated  collection  of  Fracanzio  da 
Montalboddo1'6,  with  its  numerous  train  of  editions137  and  trans 
lations1'8,  is  devoted  to  Africa  and  Asia ;  only  one  volume  in 
the  Raccolta  of  Ramusio  refers  exclusively  to  America.  Yet 
every  one  of  these  works  (and  there  are  many  more  of  the  same 
kind)  is  indispensable  to  the  student  of  American  history.  On 
the  other  hand,  to  admit  every  book  which  contains  a  passage 
or  chapter  concerning  the  subject  before  us,  especially  among 
those  published  within  the  last  three  centuries,  would  compel 
the  bibliographer  to  insert  the  titles  of  more  than  fifty  thousand 
volumes.  Yet,  the  wants  and  duties  of  the  historian  are  such 
that  he  cannot  neglect  to  consult  every  source  of  information, 
however  apparently  insignificant.  The  early  history  of  any 
country,  the  tl  origins,"  as  French  writers  would  say,  generally 
present  but  scanty  materials,  scattered  in  the  works  not  only  of 
annalists  and  historians,  but  of  orators,  poets  and  commentators  ; 
and  although  the  discovery  of  this  continent  is  comparatively  a 
modern  event,  we  often  find  in  mere  glosses  and  incidental 
notices  which  are  buried  in  bulky  chronicles  and  miscellaneous 
collections,  valuable  details  which  have  been  omitted  in  the 
compositions  of  contemporaneous  historians.  But  as  there  must 
be  a  limit  to  detailed  bibliographies,  we  are  inclined  to  confine 
such  a  particular  list  to  the  books  published  during  the  century 
which  followed  the  first  voyage  of  Columbus — excluding  all 
"  inferential"  works. 

We  apply  the  term  "inferential"  to  such  volumes,  for  instance, 
as  are  labeled  "  Alyaco."  This  name  designates  the  treatise  De 
Imagine  Mundi,  written  in  1410  by  Cardinal  Pierre  D'Ailly.  It 
is  evident  that  a  work  which  was  printed  in  I49OIJ9  cannot 
contain  anything  relating  directly  to  America  ;  and  if  such  a 
prominent  place  is  given  to  the  book,  it  is  simply  because 


138  No.  48.  138  Nos.  57,  58,  83,  84,  86,  in. 

187  Nos.  55,  70,  90,  94,  109.  1S*  infra,  p.  5,  note  61. 


xlvi 


Introduction. 


Christopher  Columbus  cites  it  frequently,  and  probably  derived 
from  its  numerous  references  to  the  old  authors  the  notion  of 
the  existence,  not  of  this  continent,  for  Columbus,  like  Ves- 
puccius,  died  in  the  belief  that  he  had  only  discovered  the 
Western  coast  of  Japan140,  but  of  a  direct  passage  to  the  West. 
The  treatises  of  D'Ailly,  however,  are  not  the  only  works  which 
he  repeatedly  consulted,  cited  and  annotated.  It  is  known, 
at  present,  that  the  frequent  references  to  Aristotle,  Seneca, 
Strabo,  &c.,  with  which  the  third  letter  of  Columbus141  is 
studded,  were  communicated  to  the  Admiral  by  Father  Gor- 
ricio142;  but  we  have  published  in  another  work143,  photographic 
copies  of  annotations  in  the  hand  of  Christopher  Columbus, 
written  on  the  margin  of  the  works  of  ^Eneus  Sylvius144  and  of 
Marco  Polo145.  If  we  insert  the  Imago  Mundi,  there  is  no 
reason  why  we  should  omit  //  Milione.  We  know  of  an  Amer 
ican  library  which,  on  the  recommendation  of  Rich146,  secured 
Zachary  Lilio's  Orbis  breviarum1*1 ,  simply  because  it  "  showed 


140  DE  LAUNOI,  Regii   Na-varrte    Gym- 
nasii  Parisiensis  Historia;  Paris,  1677,  4*0, 
Vol.  n,  p.  478. 

141  The  epistle  of  Columbus  describing 
his  third  voyage*  contains  a  passage  cover 
ing   nearly  two   pages,  literally   translated 
from  the  Imago  Mundi^  itself,  plagiarized 
from  the   Opus  Majus  of  ROGEB   BACON. 
See  HUMBOLDT,  Examcn   Critique,  Vol.  I, 
p.  65,  sq.,  and  Historic  del  Fernando   Co 
lombo  ;  Venice,   1571,   8vo,  cap.  vn,  vm, 
ix,  pp. 

411  "  se  conserva  en  la  Biblioteca  Colom- 
bina  un  codice  autografo  de  D.  Cristobal 
Colom  5  contiene  su  correspondencia  con  el 
Padre  Gorricio,  monge  cartujo  en  el  mo- 
nasterio  de  Sta  Maria  de  las  Cuevas  de  Se- 
villa,  una  multidud  de  textos  del  antiguo 


*  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  pp.  260-261. 

f  Cap.  8,  fol.  13  in  signal,  b.  The  Cohmbina 
copy  of  the  Imago  Mundi  contains,  as  Humboldt 
justly  supposed,  the  treatises  by  Gerson,  which  are 
usually  added  to  what  we  call,  on  the  authority  of 
Maittaire  (Annal.  Tyfogr.^  Vol.  iv,  p.  81,  No.  44, 
and  of  Panzer  (Annal.  Typtgr.,  Vol.  ix,  p.  246, 
No.  log)  the  Louvain  edition,  which  accounts  for 
Columbus'  frequent  references  to  the  works  of  the 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Paris. 


y  nuevo  Testamento  relatives  al  descubri- 
miento  del  nuevo  mundo  y  reconquista  de 
la  Tierra  Santa,  ademas  varias  autoridades 
de  Santos  Padres,  sentencias  de  Jilosofos  sobre 
el  mismo  asunto  y  los  celebres  versos  de  la 
tragedia  Medea  de  Seneca  lenient  annis, 
&c." — Letter  from  Senor  LEMANDEZ,  the 
librarian  of  the  Colombina,  kindly  com 
municated  by  the  Duke  DE  MONTPENSIER. 

148  Notes  on  Columbus,  New  York,  1866, 
folio,  p,  215,  sq. 

44  Historia  rerttm  ubique  gestarum,  cum 
locorum  description  nonfinita.  Asia  minor 
incipit ;  Venice,  1487,  folio. 

148  Judging  from  the  Latin  title  in  Senor 
Lemandez'  letter,  the  Marco  Polo  used  by 
Columbus  was  the  edition  supposed  to  have 
been  printed  at  Antwerp  towards  the  year 
1484,  by  Gerard  de  Leew,  which  is  de 
scribed  in  the  Libri  Catalogue  for  1859 
(No.  1562)  as  follows:  Marci  Pauli  de 
•vcncciis  Liber  de  consuetudinibus  et  condi- 
cionibus  orientalium  regionum.  Small  410, 
s.  I.  a.  a. 

46  Supplement,  p.  i,  ad  item. 

147  Florence  "  Anno  Salutis  M.CCCC- 
LXXXXIII.  Nonis  luniis." 


Introduction.  xlvii 

the  condition  of  geographical  knowledge  immediately  before 
the  first  voyage  of  Columbus."  But  Columbus's  original  observa 
tion  of  the  declination  of  the  compass148,  and  his  application  of 
this  important  fact  to  find  the  longitude  of  the  vessel149,  have 
produced  almost  as  great  a  change  in  the  science  of  magnetics 
and  the  art  of  navigation,  as  his  discovery  of  the  New  World  in 
geography.  Must  we,  therefore,  add  to  our  list  the  early  works 
quoted  in  the  curious  dissertation  of  Trombelli  de  Acus  nautiae 
inventore I5°  ?  No  American  collection  is  considered  complete 
unless  it  contains  all  the  editions  of  Ulrich  von  Hutten's  quaint 
treatise  De  guaiaci  mediclna  et  morbo  galllco.  Some  collectors 
place  the  book  in  their  library  because  they  are  of  opinion  that 
it  contains  proofs  that  the  Morbus  gallicus,  so  called,  came  ori 
ginally  from  America.  We  only  find  in  that  too  highly  prized 
and  priced  volume  that  the  author  of  the  work,  who  was  born  in 
1488,  inherited  the  disease  from  his  father151.  Other  biblio 
philes  purchase  the  volume  for  the  reason  that  it  describes  for 
the  first  time  a  medicament  of  American  origin ;  but  this  is 
equally  true  of  quinine,  sarsaparilla,  and  a  number  of  other 
medicinal  plants,  which  would  entitle  all  the  early  dispensatories, 
from  Le  Myrouel  des  appothicaires  pharmacopoles  downward,  to  a 
prominent  place  in  our  bibliography.  Several  enthusiastic  bib 
liophiles  go  even  so  far  as  to  say  that  the  works  which  contain 
an  early  mention  of  any  substance  essentially  American,  such, 
for  instance,  as  cotton,  cocoa,  as  well  as  guiacum  wood — not  to 
speak  of  Indian  corn  and  potatoes — should  be  represented  in  a 
Bibliotheca  Americana.  If  this  is  the  case,  we  must  make  room 
for  King  James'  Covnterblaste  to  Tobacco,  and  for  the  treatise  in 
which  Leon  Pinelo  agitates  for  the  first  time  the  momentous 

148  On  the    1 3th  of  September,    1492.,  16°  apud   de    Bononiensi   scicntiarum  In- 

during    his   first   transatlantic   voyage,   Cf.  stituto   atqut   Academia    commcntarii ;    Bo- 

Columbus's    log    book,    abridged    by   Las  logna,    1731-91,  410,    Vol.    n,    Part    in, 

Casas,  apud  NAVARRETE,  Co/eccion,  Vol.  i,  p.  333. 

p.  9,  sq.  m  Of  the   Wood  called  Gviacvm,  that 

49  HUMBOLDT,    Examen    Critique    Vol.  healeth  the  French  Pocxes ;  London,  1536, 

in,  p.  38.  i6mo,  pp.  4  and  6. 


xlviii  Introduction. 

question  whether  Catholic  priests  can  eat  chocolate  on  a  Friday, 
and  yet  save  their  souls  from  perdition154. 

As  a  compensation  for  excluding  these  works,  we  insert  all 
the  editions  of  the  Latin  and  Italian  translations  of  Ptolemy's 
Geography.  A  map  is  frequently  of  more  importance  to  ascer 
tain  the  extent  of  a  maritime  voyage  or  discovery,  than  the  most 
perfect  description ;  and  although  we  are  convinced  that  all  the 
charts  of  the  New  World,  from  Ruysch's1"  to  Mattiolo's154,  can 
be  traced  to  one  or  two  prototypes  only,  they  present  so  inter 
esting  a  survey  of  the  progress  of  cartography  and  of  geographical 
knowledge  during  the  first  half  of  the  fifteenth  century,  that  we 
have  taken  pains  to  describe  all  the  editions  which  contain  such 
maps  and  the  chapter  "  Extra  Ptolemeum"  which,  as  the  reader 
is  doubtless  aware,  became  the  nucleus  around  which  were 
gathered  the  results  of  all  subsequent  investigations  of  a  geo 
graphical  character155. 

In  arranging  or  classifying  these  works,  the  only  object  which 
must  be  kept  in  view,  is  the  convenience  of  the  inquirer  ;  unfor 
tunately,  we  know  of  no  classification  or  arrangement  which  is 
entirely  satisfactory.  The  alphabetical  method  brings  in  juxta 
position  the  most  heterogeneous  works.  The  classification  ac 
cording  to  subjects  is  more  or  less  arbitrary,  while  it  compels 
the  bibliographer  to  insert  the  same  book  in  five  or  six  different 
classes,  as  a  great  many  of  the  early  works  relating  to  America 
treat  of  a  variety  of  subjects.  The  disposition  according  to  the 
order  of  time  presents  certain  advantages,  but  it  is  also  defective, 
as  a  work  written,  for  instance,  in  1493,  ^e  the  Spanish  letter  of 
Columbus  (No.  7),  must  be  placed  under  the  year  1865,  when 
it  was  first  published ;  while  if  we  only  adopt  the  date  of  its 
composition,  bibliographically  speaking,  the  arrangement  is  en 
tirely  useless.  On  the  other  hand,  each  of  these  modes  has  its 


152  Question   moral  si  el  chocolate   que-         18S  No.  56.     (In  the  Ptolemy  of  1508.) 
branta  el  ayuno  eclesiastico  ;  Madrid,  1636,  I84  No.  285. 

4to.  186  See  infra,  p.  107,  sq. 


Introduction.  xlix 

merits,  and,  nothwithstanding  the  perplexity  which  arises  from  a 
multiplicity  of  indices,  we  think  that  these  three  systems  might 
be  adapted  to  a  comprehensive  bibliography,  in  this  wise  :  The 
works  arranged  chronologically  according  to  the  order  of  their 
publication ;  then  two  separate  indices,  one  of  names  exclusively ; 
the  other,  a  classified  index,  setting  forth  under  special  heads  all 
the  subjects  mentioned,  for  example,  in  the  Epitome  of  Leon 
Pinelo. 

The  works  should  be  described  with  extreme  minuteness  and 
accuracy.  The  title  of  a  book  frequently  conveys  the  "  pre 
liminary"  information  required  ;  but  if  the  title  is  truncated  in 
the  description  or  imperfectly  abridged,  it  is  apt  to  become  a 
vehicle  of  error.  It  is  also  necessary  to  give  the  colophon,  as  it 
shows  when  the  book  was  really  published  or  completed,  while, 
at  times,  we  can  find  in  no  other  part  of  the  volume  what  is 
called  the  imprint156. 

There  are  many  more  details  of  a  technical  character  with 
which  bibliographers  are  expected  to  be  conversant ;  and  as  these 
apply  to  all  bibliographies  in  general,  we  must  refer  the  reader 
to  the  works  which  treat  specially  of  such  matters157,  and  to  the 
catalogues  which  exhibit  their  application158  in  a  much  higher 

169  When  the  curious  plaquette  Copia  at  Augsburg  by  Erhard  Oeglin,  who  ceased 
der  Nciven  Zcytung  auss  Prcsillg  Landt  to  print  after  1516;  and,  therefore,  if 
(No.  99)  was  first  made  known,  Hum-  Humboldt's  supposition  is  correct,  Chris- 
boldt  expressed  the  opinion*  that  it  must  topher  de  Haro  visited  the  Straits  three 
have  been  printed  between  1525  and  1540.  years  at  least  before  Magellan. 
M.  de  Varnhagen,f  on  the  other  hand,  16T  In  BRUNET,  Manuel,  Table  m'ethod- 
was  inclined  to  ascribe  to  the  book  a  date  iquc,  Nos.  31122—31365;  and  the  most 
circa  1508.  It  was  a  matter  of  some  con-  valuable  treatise  of  CONSTANTIN,  Biblio- 
sequence  to  ascertain  the  exact  time  when  theconomic ;  Paris,  1841,  i8mo. 
it  had  been  published,  as  Humboldt  thought  18e  FRANCK,  Catalogus  bibliothccae  Buna- 
that  it  contained  a  description  of  a  voyage  -vian^e;  Lipsite,  1750-1756,  6  vols.,  4to  ; 
to  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  undertaken  by  AUDIFFREDI,  Catalogus  historico-criticus  ro- 
Christopher  de  Haro.  But  we  describe  an-  manorum  cditionum  aeculi  Xf;  Roma, 
other  edition  (No.  100),  which,  but  for  the  1783,  410;  REUSS,  Repertorium  commenta- 
colophon,  would  appear  in  a  catalogue  simply  tionum  a  socictatibus  litter -arils  cditarum  ; 
as  a  duplicate  of  the  first.  Now,  this  colo-  Gottingee,  1801-1821,  16  vols.,  410  ;  and 
phon  shows  that  the  plaquette  was  printed  for  the  fountain-head  of  the  best  modern 
classifications,  GARNIER,  Systcma  biblio- 

*  Examtn  Critiqu,,  Vol.  v,  P.  149.  thec*  co!U^ii  farii'eniis  Soc-  J"«>   Paris, 

t  Historia  do  Brax.il,  —.  ^78,  4to. 


1  Introduction. 

degree  than  any  example  we  could  cite,  or  description  which  it  is 
in  our  power  to  give. 

Whatever  may  be  the  natural  impartiality  of  an  author's  mind, 
his  works  must  always  bear  the  impress  of  the  circumstances 
which  surround  him,  and  of  his  times.  It  is  necessary,  there 
fore,  to  study  his  personal  history  as  well  as  that  of  his  epoch, 
and  of  the  social  center  in  which  he  lived,  that  we  may  form  a 
correct  estimate  of  the  credence  to  which  he  is  entitled.  In 
fact,  we  know  of  no  better  means  to  ascertain  to  what  extent 
his  views  may  have  been  modified  by  such  external  influences  ; 
and  no  historian  will  fail  to  appreciate  the  facilities  offered  him 
by  the  bibliographer  who  groups  around  each  title  references  to 
all  the  works  in  which  information  in  regard  to  these  illustrative 
subjects  may  be  found.  How  thankful  have  we  not  often  felt  for 
the  Scriptures  vitarum  eruditorum  particulares  in  the  celebrated 
Bunau  catalogue  !  Nor  should  the  bibliographer  limit  this  class 
of  researches  to  the  life  of  the  author  of  each  work  which 
comes  under  his  notice.  He  must  also  contribute  towards  elu 
cidating  the  history  of  the  principal  characters  who  figure  in  the 
books,  by  adding  such  authorities  as  may  have  escaped  the  notice 
of  the  writer  himself,  or  as  may  have  come  to  light  subsequently 
to  the  publication  of  his  work. 

The  requisites  which  we  have  already  mentioned  are  much 
more  onerous  and  difficult  to  fulfill  than  the  majority  of  readers 
are  inclined  to  believe15? ;  yet,  they  by  no  means  constitute  the 
whole  task  which  devolves  upon  the  bibliographer.  Every 
special  bibliography  demands  special  requisites,  which  must  be 
adequate  to  its  particular  object.  Our  own  province  is  only  to 
state  those  which  pertain  to  a  bibliography  of  works  relating  to 

149  See   in   the   Edinburgh  Re-view  for  made.    When  the  twenty-five  titles,  illus- 

October,  1850,  a  curious   account   of  the  trative   of  his  bibliographical  attainments, 

mishaps    experienced    during    the    discus-  were  put  into   the  hands  of  a  competent 

sions,   of  the  British    Museum   Commis-  librarian    for  examination,  it  was   discov- 

sion,  by  a  well-known  English  scholar  and  ered   that   "  they  contained   almost  every 

antiquary,    who    had    attempted   to    show  possible  error  which  can  be  committed  in 

how    the    Museum    catalogue    should    be  cataloguing  books." 


Introduction.  li 

America.  Now,  a  Bibliotbeca  Americana  is  essentially  geograph 
ical  and  historical,  and  whoever  would  compose  it  must,  there 
fore,  assume  to  the  full  extent  of  its  original  compass  the 
obligations  which  pertain  to  the  study  of  geography  and  history. 
These  consist  in  a  critical  survey  of  certain  documents,  and  in 
an  effort  to  connect  certain  data  in  view  of  an  ultimate  conclu 
sion.  The  main  difference  between  history  and  bibliography,  in 
this  respect,  is  that  the  latter  is  limited  to  printed  documents, 
whilst  the  data  it  furnishes  refer  chiefly  to  their  external  charac 
teristics.  But  this  does  not  imply  that  the  labors  of  the  bibliog 
rapher  must  be  confined  to  a  correct  statement  of  the  title  and 
size  of  a  book,  or  to  tables  exhibiting  the  chronology  of  its 
various  editions  and  translations.  We  think  that  after  these 
requisites  have  been  fulfilled,  the  bibliographer  must  show 
wherein  the  texts  of  these  editions  present  differences,  and  trace 
to  their  original  sources  the  changes  introduced.  Years  some 
times  elapse  between  successive  editions  of  the  same  work. 
Meanwhile,  new  documents  are  published,  exhibiting  a  discovery 
made  or  a  progress  accomplished.  By  the  light  of  these  new 
developments,  the  author,  in  a  later  edition,  modifies  the  opinions 
or  corrects  the  errors  set  forth  at  a  time  when  he  possessed  no 
better  means  to  ascertain  the  truth  of  his  statements.  We  hold 
that  it  is  the  duty  of  bibliographers  not  only,  as  it  were,  to  label 
all  such  alterations,  but  to  mark  the  sources  from  which  the 
motive  which  prompted  the  author  in  each  instance  was  derived. 
Withal,  we  must  not  be  understood  to  advocate  the  insertion  of 
elaborate  essays  in  connection  with  every  book  described  or  cited 
in  any  bibliography  whatsoever.  This  course  would  be  tanta 
mount  to  blending  Bibliography  and  Literary  History  together. 
We  only  advocate  the  addition  of  succinct  indications  of  a  most 
trustworthy  and  suggestive  character,  paving  the  way  for  ulterior 
researches,  which  the  bibliographer  may  be  supposed  to  have 
instituted  himself,  but  of  which  he  only  gives  what  is  called  in 
common  parlance  "the  chapter  and  verse."  In  fine,  the  bibliog- 


Hi  Introduction. 

rapher's  whole  duty  will  be  done,  as  we  conceive  it,  only  when 
he  has  presented  the  synthetic  historian  with  the  means  of  con 
trolling,  comparing  and  weighing  the  authorities  which  he  needs 
to  consult,  as  well  as  with  the  fullest  possible  list  of  those 
authorities.  Within  certain  limits,  it  will  be  seen,  therefore, 
that  we  assign  to  bibliographers  a  relation  to  the  historian  not 
unlike  that  which  exists  at  the  British  bar  between  the  attorney 
who  prepares  the  brief  and  the  barrister  who  pleads  the  case. 
Each  has  a  most  serious  and  important  task  to  perform  ;  nor 
will  the  honest  historian  hesitate  to  admit  that  if  the  results  of  his 
own  labor  are  necessarily  more  splendid  than  the  modest  efforts 
of  the  student  who  precedes  him  and  prepares  his  way,  the  duties 
of  the  bibliographer  may  probably  enlist  scientific  faculties  of  a 
high  order,  and  strenuous  exertions  which,  although  left  often 
unrewarded,  are  deserving  of  praise  and  recompense. 


We  are  well  aware  that  the  present  work  by  no  means 
presents  a  perfect  illustration  of  the  bibliographical  principles 
which  we  have  endeavored  to  set  forth.  But  we  cannot  honestly 
take  upon  ourselves  the  whole  responsibility  of  this  untoward  fact. 
In  the  preparation  of  such  an  elaborate  bibliography,  the  great  con 
dition  precedent  is  a  free,  untrammeled,  and  repeated  access  to 
the  books  which  the  bibliographer  intends  to  describe.  He  should 
be  at  liberty  to  examine  them,  not  one  by  one,  but  all  together, 
frequently,  and  with  a  large  collection  of  works  of  reference 
at  his  elbow.  These  facilities  it  has  been  denied  to  us  to  com 
mand.  We  have,  indeed,  enjoyed  the  freedom  of  one  admirable 
library,  but  this  did  not  contain  all  the  books  needed  to  establish 
necessary  comparisons.  Other  collections,  in  which  these  sup 
plementary  books  could  be  found,  were  located,  some  of  them  in 
distant  cities,  whilst  others,  existing  within  a  stone's  throw  of 
our  study,  belonged  to  bibliophiles  who  hesitated  to  extend  to  us 
the  facilities  required  by  the  nature  of  our  task,  although  they 


Introduction.  liii 

often  enabled  us  to  examine  a  number  of  valuable  books,  which 
had  been  actually  removed  from  the  shelves  for  our  special 
inspection.  But  whilst  this  was  a  great  advantage,  meriting 
acknowledgment,  every  reader  at  all  familiar  with  bibliograph 
ical  researches  knows  full  well  that  unless  the  inquirer  is  gifted 
with  the  erudition  of  a  Mabillon  and  the  memory  of  a  Mezzo- 
fanti,  it  is  impossible  for  him  to  commence  his  investigations 
with  a  competent  knowledge  of  all  the  works  which  are  to  come 
within  the  range  of  his  researches.  "  Book  openeth  book," 
says  Dibdin;  and  this  wise  saying  is  still  more  true  of  biblio 
graphical  and  historical  inquiries  than  of  any  other  class  of 
investigations,  as  an  indefinite  number  of  useful  suggestions  is 
the  first  result  of  untrammeled  access  to  the  alcoves  of  every 
opulent  library.  Nor  is  this  all.  However  careful  in  his  collations 
a  conscientious  bibliographer  may  be ;  however  numerous  and 
detailed  may  be  the  memoranda  which  he  never  fails  to  make, 
he  is  nevertheless  sure  to  be  beset  with  excruciating  doubts 
when  he  sits  down  to  achieve  his  task  at  a  distance  from  the 
books  which  he  is  to  describe  with  no  other  help  than  his 
notes  and  memory.  These  notes  are  taken  too  often  in  a  hasty 
manner,  for  fear  of  exhausting  the  patience  of  the  unconfiding 
proprietor,  who  frequently  considers  and  treats  the  student  as  a 
purloiner  in  disguise,  an  intruder  or  a  parasite.  Hurrying  back 
to  his  solitary  cell,  the  painstaking  bibliographer  peruses  the  notes 
so  onerously  obtained.  As  he  dwells  upon  his  memoranda  at  leis 
ure,  innumerable  new  ideas  and  suggestions  arise  out  of  them ; 
but  these  new  ideas  and  suggestions  remain  sterile  because  they 
need  to  be  controlled  and  fructified  by  fresh  references  to  works 
examined  for  a  different  purpose,  and  long  before  the  germination 
of  these  tardy  but  welcome  notions.  So  far  as  we,  ourselves, 
are  concerned,  we  feel  constrained  to  state  that  could  we  have 
spent  no  more  than  four  days  in  the  undisturbed  examination  of 
certain  libraries,  even  with  our  hands  manacled,  it  would  have 
saved  us  fully  six  months  of  most  arduous  researches. 


liv  Introduction. 

As  to  the  works  of  reference  which  we  had  to  consult,  we 
found  them  scattered  all  over  the  country,  not  a  few,  for  exam 
ple,  being  discovered  by  us  in  the  dusty  garret  of  a  dilapidated 
church,  where  we  .were  so  unfortunate  as  to  pore  over  them  when 
the  thermometer  stood  below  zero.  Others,  less  accessible  still, 
we  heard  of  as  lying  snugly  coffined  in  comfortable  bookcases, 
never  to  be  disturbed  by  mortal  eye.  A  goodly  number  were 
picked  up  and  purchased  at  book-stalls,  while  many  more  could 
be  consulted  only  at  the  price  of  journeys  to  Boston  or  Cam 
bridge,  where  librarians  dispense  to  students  a  hospitality  which 
New  York  has  yet  to  emulate.  We  enter  into  these  details, 
not  for  the  purpose  of  working  upon  the  sympathies  of  the 
reader,  but  simply  to  explain  the  shortcomings  which  he  will 
not  fail  to  note  in  this,  our  first  and  last  attempt  in  American 
Bibliography. 


H.  H. 


NEW  YORK  UNIVERSITY  BUILDINGS, 
May  i$tA,  1866. 


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*,,,*  Sm.  410,  j/»^  tf»w^  aut  loco,  four  leaves,  thirty-four  lines  in  a 
full  page.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Libr.  New  York.      The  only  other  copies  known 
are  in  the  British  Museum  and  Munich  Royal  Library.) 

*  Anglice  :    Letter    from     Christopher  noble   lord  Raphael  Sanxis  :  Treasurer  of 

Colom  :    to  whom  our  age  oweth  much  :  the  same  most  serene    King  :    which   the 

concerning   the    Islands  of   India  beyond  noble   and  learned   man  Allander   de   Cos 

ine  Ganges  recently  discovered.      In   the  co     translated    from    the     Spanish     idiom 

search     of    which     he     was    sent     eight  into    Latin  :    the    third    day    of  the   ca- 

months    ago    under  the    auspices    and    at  lends  of  May  [April   2jth  ?]  1493.     The 

the  expense  of  the  most  invincible  King  Year  One  of  the   Pontificate    of  Alexan- 

of  the  Spains,  Ferdinand  :   addressed  to  the  der  VI. 


2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

14.03.  Christopher  or  Pedro  (Luc.  Marineo1}  Colon  (Fer- 
.  nando  Columbus2-,  official  documents3),  or  Colonus  (Pet. 
Martyr4,  Geraldinfi},  or  Colom  (Oviedo(\  de  Cozco1,  Stam- 
ler*},  or  Colomo  (Libros  de  Cuentos*,  Medina  CelP],  or 
Colombo  (yrivigiano9,  Grynteus10,  Coppo  da  Isola11,  Zorzi™, 
Datin],  or  Colyns  (Sharon  'Turner14),  or  Dawber  (Ru- 
chamer^),  or  Columbus  (Gfustiniatt?6,  Syllacio11,  Bembo^}  ; 
born  at  Genoa  (Giustiniani,  Peter  Martyr,  Bernaldezlf), 
Gal/o20,  Senarega11,  Herrera™,  Munoz^,  Spotorno^),  or  at 
Cucarro  (Donesmund?*,  Napione*,  Cancellieri*1 ,  Conti^},  or 
at  Pradello  (Campi^},  or  at  Savonna  (Salinerio10,  Chiabre- 
ra*1,  Belloro^],  or  atCugureo  (Eden],  or  Nervi  (Oviedo),  or 

1  DC   las  cosas    memorables    de   Espana  ;  I5  Newe  unbekanthe  landtc ;  Nuremberg, 
Alcal.t,  fol.,   1530,  1533,  1539.  fol.,  1508. 

2  Historic   del  Signor  D.    Fernando   Cs-  16  Psalterium ;  Genoa,  fol.,  1516. 
lombo  ;   Venice,  I2mo,  1571,    1614,  1672,  11  De  intulit  meridian!  atque  indici  mart 

1676  (Franck's  Catal.),  1678,  1685.  nuper  in-ventis  ;  Pavia,  410,  s.  a. 

3  apud    NAVARRETE,    Coleccion     de    los          18  Historic   VenettK ;  Venice  and   Paris, 
•viatres  y    descubrimientot  f    Madrid,    8vo,     fol.,  1551. 

1825-37,  Vol.  ii.  19  Historia  de  los   Reyes   Cath.   D.   Fer- 

4  Opus  Epistolarum  ;  Alcala,  fol.,  1530,     nando  y  Da.  Isabel ;  Granada,  2  vols.,  410, 
and  Amsterd.,  1670  (best  edit.)  5   Decades,      1856. 

Sevilla,  fol.,  1511,  Alcala,  fol.,  1516,  and  'M  apudMuRATORl,Rcrum  Italic.  Script.; 

1530;  Basle,  1533,  Paris,  8vo,  1587  (Hak-  Vol.  xxm. 

luyt's,  best  edition).  21  Idem,  Vol.  xxiv. 

5  Itinerarium    ad  re^iones  sub   equinoct. ;  22  Historia  General  de  los  Hechos   dc  los 
Rome,  I2mo,  1631.  Castellanos ;    Madrid,    fol.,    1601—15,  and 

6  Historia   General  de  las    Indias  ;    Se-  1728-30  5  Antwerp,  1728  (bad  edition), 
villa,  fol.,  1535,  Salamanca,  1547,  Valla-  2S  Historia  del  Nuc<vo  Mundo  ;   Madrid, 
dolid,  1557;  Madrid,  4  vols.,  fol.,  1851-55,  410,  1798  (MS.  of  2d  vol.  in  Private  Libr., 
complete  edit.  New  York). 

7  Latin  translat.  of  Columbus'  letter,  see  24  Delia   orig.   e  patria   di    C.  Colombo  ,• 
infra,  Nos.  I,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6.  Genoa,  8vo,  1819,  and    Codice  diplomatico 

8  Dyalogus;  Augsburg,  fol.,  15085  Ven-  Colombo-Americano  ;  Genoa,  410,  1823. 
ice,  i.  a.  25  Historia    Ecclesiastica    di     Manto-va  ; 

"  Letter,  apud   MORELLI,  Lettera   raris-  Mantova,  410,  1613—16. 

sima  ;    Bassano,   8vo,    1810,  and  Operettc,  29  Delia  patria  di  C.  Colombo  ;  Florence, 

Venice,  3  vols.,  8vo,  1820.  8vo,  1808,  and  Del  Primo  Scopritore;  Flo- 

10  No-vus  Orbis;  Basle,  fol.,  1532,  Paris,  rence,  8vo,  1809. 

1532,  Basle,  1537,  and  1555  (best),  Rot-  '"  Disscrtaxioni    epistolari    bibliografichc 

terdam,  8vo,  1616.  supra  C.  Colombo;  Rome,  8vo,  1809. 

11  Portolano;   Venice,  sm.  410,  1528.  28  Noti-z.    storicbe    della    citta    di    C.    di 

12  Paesi  nouamente    retrouati ;    Vicenza,  Monferrato  ;  Casali,  8vo,  1838-42. 

4to,    1507,    Milan,    1508,    1512,    1519,  2a  Historia  Ecclesiast.  di  Piacenxa ;  Pia- 

Venice,  1517,  1521.  cenz.i,  fol.,  1651-72. 

13  La  letter  a  dclle  iso/e;  Florence,  410,  3I)  Annotattonet   lulij  Salinerij  Sauonensis 
1493,   two  editions.  ad  Cornelium  Taciturn;  Genoa,  4to,  1602. 

14  History    of   England    in     the    Middle  :tl  Canxon-Eroichi  Venice, 8 vo,  1730-31. 
/%«  ;  Lond.,  4to,  1814-23.  32  apud    Cor  re  span  dance   Astron.   G'eogr., 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  3 

at  Cogoletto  (Gambara™,  IsnardP4},  Oneglia,  Chiavara, 
Finale,  Bugiasco,  Cossena,  Quinto,  Albisola,  or  in 
England  (Molloy™},  or  simply  in  some  unknown  village 
near  Genoa  (Las  Casas*,  Barros37),  in  1435-6  (Bernaldez, 
Napione,  Navarrete,  Humboldt^^  Luigi  Colombo™),  or  in 
1441  (Char/evoix40),  or  in  1445  (Cladera4\  Bossi4*),  or  in 
14.4.6  (Munoz],  or  in  1447  (Robertson43,  Spotorno)  of  hum 
ble  parentage,  to  say  the  least :  "  vilibus  orbus  parenti- 
bus"  (Giustiniani),  "da  ignobili  Parenti"  (Salinerio10). 
Died  at  Valladolid,  May  2oth,  1506,  notwithstanding 
Grynaeus'  Novus  Orbis,  which,  as  late  as  1532,  mentions 
him  as  still  living. 

After  a  very  short  time  spent  at  the  University  of 
Pavia  (Ferd.  Columbus,  Bossi],  Christopher  Columbus,  like 
his  father  and  brothers  (Gallo,  Senarega,  Casoni44,  Sali- 
nerio30,  Allegretti™},  followed  the  occupation  of  wool- 
carder;  and  afterwards  (Las  Casas,  Bernaldez),  when  still 
in  Genoa,  became  a  bookseller.  The  time  when  he  first 
went  to  sea  is  not  known.  Repaired  to  Lisbon,  after 
a  shipwreck2  (  ? ),  in  1470,  and  joined  his  brother  Bar 
tholomew,  who  made  his  living  in  that  city  by  drawing 
and  selling  maps  or  nautical  pictures  (Gallo,  Giustiniani). 
Was  again  in  Italy,  March  2oth,  1472  (BianchP*),  and, 
probably  in  1473,  *n  tne  employ  of  King  Rene  of  Pro 
vence.  Married  in  Lisbon  (Barros],  or  perhaps  at  Calvi, 
in  Corsica46,  Felippa  Muniz  Perestrello,  the  daughter 

&c.,  du  Baron  de  Zach^  Genoa,  8vo,  1826,  lent    work,    2    vols.,  n.  d  ,    is    only   this, 

Vol.   xiv  5    ani    Appcndicc,    Genoa,    8vo,  without  the  sections  of  La  Cosa's  map.) 

1  $ 39 j  quotes  PuLLf.Ko,Efic^erema;  Turin,  39  Patria  e  Biogr.  del  Grande  Ammira^- 

4to,  1696.  Ha;  Rome,  8vo,  1853. 

33  De  Na-vigat.  C.  Columbi ;  Rome,  8vo,  40  Histoire  de  r Isle  Espagno/e;  Paris,  410, 
15855   4to,  1683.  1730  ;  izmo,  Amsterd.,  1733. 

34  Disurtaxiorie  ;  Pinerolo,  8vo,  1838.  41  Invcstigacioncs  historical ;  Madrid,  410, 

35  De    Jure   Maritime;    London,    8vo  ;  1794. 

from  1676  to  1769,  nine  editions.  42  Vita  di  Colombo;  Milan,  8vo,  1818. 

38  "de    algun  lugar  de   la    Provincia   de  '3    History   of   America  ;    London,    410, 

Genova," — Historia  General  de  las   Indias,  1788. 

Chapt.  n  ;  MS.,  Private  Library,  N.  Y.  44  Annali   di     Geneva,    del    seiolo    sedi- 

37  Decadas  da  Asia ;  Lisbon,  3  vols.,  fol.,  cesimo  ;   Genoa,  fol.,  1708. 
1552-53-63;  1628,  and  1778-88, 24 vols.,  46  Osscr-va-zioni  sul  clima,  &c.,  della  Li- 
8vo  (best).  guria  (apud  Codice]. 

38  Examen  Critique;-  Paris,  3    vols.,  8vo,  -      46  Documents   in    the    Revue  de    Paris, 
1836-9,      (The  edit,  of  that  most  excel-  Aug.,  1841,  vol.  xxxn. 


4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

14.03.    of  the  discoverer  (Ferd.  Columbus],  or  Governor  (Ca  da 

,  Mosto47)  of  the  island  of  Porto-Santo,  and  sister  to  the 
wife  of  Pedro  Correa,  an  expert  navigator,  before  1474, 
the  year  in  which  his  first  son,  Diego,  was  born.  This 
Diego  is  the  boy  who  is  made  to  play  such  a  lamentable 
part  in  the  scene  at  the  La  Rabida  convent,  in  1484 
or  1486.  Made  a  voyage  to  England,  Iceland,  and 
"  Thule,"  February,  1477  (Letter  apud  Ferd.  Columbus], 
where  he  may  have  obtained  the  confirmation  of  the 
data  furnished  him  by  Toscanelli,  June  25th,  1474, 
concerning  the  existence  of  Western  lands.  Was  on 
board  the  piratical  fleet  which,  in  1485,  attacked  the 
Venetian  galleys  off  Cape  St.  Vincent  (Raw  don  Brown4*). 
Made  his  home  at  Porto-Santo  (a  small  island  near  the 
coast  of  Africa),  on  an  estate  belonging  to  his  wife,  and 
where  he  compared  notes  with  Correar  and  matured  his 
plans. 

First  proposals  to  Genoa  (P.  Martyr,  Benzoni49,  Her- 
rera,  Ramusio*0},  or  to  Portugal  (MaffeP1,  Gafoano^},  then 
to  Venice  (Bossi,  Navarrete],  or  to  France  (Geraldini, 
Montesquieu™},  to  Genoa  again  (Munoz),  to  England  (Ge 
raldini},  through  his  brother  Bartholomew,  who  seems  to 
have  remained  seven  years  at  the  court  of  Henry  VII, 
for  whom  he  made  a  chart,  February,  1488  (Hakluyl™}, 
but  where  the  project  was  laughed  to  scorn  (Benzoni),  or 
delayed  only  by  accident  (Bacon*5},  or  accepted,  but  too 
late  (Pure  has*6},  then  to  Portugal  (Vase  one  elks*1},  from 
which  country  he  repaired  to  Spain,  1484  (Spotorno], 

47  apud  Itinerarium  Portugallesium;  Mi-  qui   lui    proposait    les    Indes."      Liv.    xxi, 
Ian,  fol.,  1508.  chap.    xxn.      These    regrets     cannot     be 

48  Calendar  of  State  Papers  and  MSS.  in  termed  timely,  for  not  only  Francis  I  did 
the  Archives  of  Venice;  London,  8vo,  1864.  not  ascend  the  throne  of  France  until  the 

49  Historia  del  Mondo   Nuo-vo  ;   Venice,  Western  World  had  been  rediscovered  near- 
8vo,  1565,  1572.  ly  twenty-two  years,  but  he  was  not  born 

60  Delle    Na-vigat.    et    Viagg: ;   Venice,  until  September,  1494.      (See  HENAULT.) 
fol.,  1603,  or  1613  for  the  ;d  vol.  i4  The    Principal   Navigations;    Lond., 

61  Historiarumindicarum;  Florence, folio,  fol.,  1589,  1598-1600,410,  1809-12. 
1588,  Venice,  410,  1589,  &c.  6<>  Historic   of  the  Raigne  of  K.    Henry 

82  Tratado;  Lisbon,  1563.  VII;   London,  fol  ,  1622. 

53  Esprit  des  Lois,  "J'ai  0111  plusieurs  S6  Pilgrimcs;  Lond.,  fol.,  1625,  Part  m. 

fois  deplorer  Taveuglement  du  conseil  de  67  Vida  del  Rey  Juan  II;  Madrid,  410, 

Fran9ois  I  qui  rebuta  Christophe  Colomb,  1639. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  5 

and  made  proposals  to  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  1485 
(Bossi),  or  1486  (Oviedo).  Met  at  Cordova  Beatrix 
Eririquez,  to  whom  he  was  married  (Herrera,  TiraboschP*, 
Bossi,  Koselly  de  Lorgues59),  or  with  whom  he  never  lived 
in  lawful  wedlock  (Napione,  Spotorno,  Navarrete,  Hum- 
boldt),  before  August  29th,  1487  (Ortiz  de  Zuniga60), 
or  August  15th,  1488  (Navarrete),  the  year  in  which  his 
youngest  son  and  future  historian  was  born.  Distin 
guished  himself  in  the  campaign  against  the  Moors, 
1489  (Or/.  deZuniga).  The  commission  sitting  at  Sala 
manca  rejected  his  proposals,  1491.  The  project  was 
finally  accepted  by  Spain,  April  iyth,  1492.  Set  sail 
from  Palos  with  three  caravels,  viz.:  the  "Santa-Maria" 
or  "  Gallega"  (Oviedo),  flag-ship,  the  "  Pinta,"  and  the 
"  Nina,"  with  a  crew  of  ninety  men  (Ferd.  Columbus]  or 
one  hundred  and  twenty  (Martyr,  Giustiniani),  Friday, 
August  jd,  1492,  a  half  an  hour  before  daylight. 

Discovered,  Friday,  October  i2th,  1492,  at  2  A. 
M.,  what  he  always  believed,  and  compelled  his  crew, 
under  penalty61  of  having  their  tongues  cut  off,  to 
assert  to  be  the  western  coast  of  China,  but  which  was 
only  Grand  Turk,  one  of  the  Turks  islands  (Navar- 
rete,  Gibbs^,  Major6*),  or  Watling  Island  (Munoz, 
Btcfar**),  or  San  Salvador  Grande  (Ferrer65},  or  Cat 
Island  (Catesby^^  Humboldf).  Discovered  the  Island 
of  Cuba,  October  28th,  and  Hayti,  December  5th, 
1492.  Sent  an  Embassy  to  the  "  Gran  Can,"  Novem 
ber  2d.  Lost  his  flag-ship  by  shipwreck,  December 
24th.  Set  sail  on  his  way  back  to  Spain,  Wednesday, 


58  Storia  del/a  left.  Italiana;  Milan,  8vo,  torical   Society,    1846;  and    Athemeum  for 
1822-26.  1846. 

59  Christophe  Colomb  $  1 2mo,  Paris,  1859 ;  "3  Select  Letters  of  Columbus  $  Lond.,  8vo, 
and  La  Croix  dans  les  Deux-monJcs,  Paris,  1847  ;    printed  for  the  Hakluyt  Society. 
8vo,     1843     (a     very     strange     perform-  H   The  Landfall  of  Columbus ;  Lond.,  $vo, 
ance).  1856. 

60  Annales  eclesiastk.  de  Sevilla;  Madrid,  85  Carta  etferica  (1802),  afud  notes   to 
fol.,  1677.  French  translation  of  NAVARKETE;    Paris, 

81  Information,  apud  NAVAKRETE  ;   Vol.  8vo,  1828. 

n,  No.  LXXVI,  page  145.  e6  Natural  History  of  Carolina;  London, 

62  Proceedings   of  the  New  York  His-  folio,  1731. 


6  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

14.93*  January  i6th,  1493.  Owing  to  severe  storms,  he  an- 
!  chored  off  St.  Mary's,  one  of  the  Azores,  February  iSth, 
and  afterwards  at  Rastello,  in  the  Tagus,  near  Lisbon, 
where  he  landed  March  4th,  and  from  which  he  sent  to 
Castile  a  messenger  bearing  the  news  and  letters  ad 
dressed  to  Sanchez  and  Santangel.  After  an  eventful 
time  at  the  court  of  John  II,  of  Portugal,  where  the 
courtiers  proposed  openly  to  murder  him  (Garcia  de  Re- 
sende^j  Barros,  Vasconcellos}^  Columbus  departed,  Wed 
nesday,  March  ijth,  landing  finally  at  Palos,  Friday, 
March  I5th,  1493,  at  noon. 

When  still  onboard  his  caravel,  February  I5th,  off  the 
island  of  St.  Mary,  Columbus  wrote  two  official  ac 
counts  of  his  voyage,  one  of  which  was  addressed  to 
Raphael  or  Gabriel  Sanchez  or  Sanxis,  the  Crown  Trea 
surer.  No  copy,  either  in  print  or  in  manuscript,  of 
the  Spanish  original  has  yet  been  found,  but  the  dis 
covery  made  a  few  years  ago,  in  the  Ambrosian  library, 
of  a  printed  copy  of  the  letter  addressed  to  Luiz  de 
Santangel  (No.  7),  warrants  the  belief  that  not  only 
it  may  have  been  printed,  but  that  it  is  not  irretrievably 
lost.  As  to  the  original  itself,  notwithstanding  the 
diligent  searches  instituted  by  Munoz  in  Simancas,  and 
Navarrete  in  the  Lonja  at  Seville,  where,  after  the  estab 
lishment  of  the  General  Archives  of  the  Indies,  in 
1792,  all  documents  relating  to  the  Western  World  had 
been  transferred,  no  traces  of  it  have  ever  been  dis 
covered.  Munoz  supposes  that  it  has  been  inserted  in 
Chapt.  cxvui  of  Bernaldez'  Historiade  los  Reyes  Catolicos. 
We  are  of  opinion  that  the  latter  work  contains  only 
a  close  paraphrase  of  the  letter  addressed  to  Santangel, 
as  the  reader  can  ascertain  by  comparing  the  Ambrosian 
text  with  the  original  of  Bernaldez,  both  of  which  are 
inserted,  together  with  a  translation  into  English,  in  our 
Notes  on  Columbus,  pages  89—115. 

The  substance  of  that  valuable  document,  however, 

97  Ly-vro  das  obras;  Evora,  fol.,  1554;  as  CAronica,  Lisb.,  fol.,  1596,  1607,  1622,  1752. 


Bibliotheta  Americana.  7 

has  been  transmitted  to  us   through  a  translation  made    14.03, 
in  very  poor  Latin — "  semi-barbaro"  (Munoz) — by  one 
Leander    or    Aliander  de    Cosco,    on   or    about    April 
25th,  1493.    Of  that  translation  we  describe,  de  visu,  six 
editions,  all  apparently  published  within  the  year  1493. 

Only  one  of  those  six  editions  contains  the  name  of 
the  printer,  his  place  of  residence,  and  the  year  when  it 
was  printed.  It  is  our  No.  3.  Another  has  the  printer's 
name  and  residence,  but  no  date  (No.  6) ;  whilst  a  third 
(No.  5)  gives  only  the  place.  The  other  three  (Nos. 
i,  2,  and  3)  are  all  sine  anno  aut  loco. 

The  text,  with  the  exception  of  variations  in  the  use 
of  contracted  letters  (viz. :  tp,  $,  qj,  12,  f ,  9,  $,  a,  5,  £,  f, 
t>  5,  p,  CJ,  f,  U,  p,  ty),  is  the  same  for  all.  The  titles  differ. 
In  Nos.  i,  2,  5,  and  6,  the  name  of  King  Ferdinand  only 
is  given ;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  that  of  Queen  Isabella  is 
added.  In  Nos.  i,  2,  5,  and  6,  the  recipient  of  the 
letter  is  called  Raphael ;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  he  is  named 
Gabriel.  His  family  name  is  spelled  in  Nos.  1,2,  5, 
and  6,  Sanxis ;  in  No.  3,  Sanchis ;  in  No.  4,  Sanches. 
The  translator  is  mentioned  as  Aliander  in  Nos.  i,  2, 
5,  and  6 ;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  as  Leander ;  whilst  No.  3 
adds  the  complimentary  adjective  of  generosus  where  all 
the  others  have  nobilis.  No.  2  is  the  only  one  which 
lacks  the  words  Indie  supra  Gangem  in  the  title68. 

Nos.  5  and  6  were  certainly  printed  at  Paris,  and  No. 

68  Graesse  states  that   "  Dans   1'ex.   de  Silber  in  the  Ambrosian,  he  would   have 

1'ed.  de  Euch.  Silber,  conserve  a   la  bibl.  mentioned  it  instead  of  referring  to  an  un- 

Ambros.    de    Milan,    manquent    les  deux  illustrated  copy  in   Florence.      It  must   be 

mots  supra  Gangem  au  titre."      We  are  of  said,  however,  that  by  a  clause  in  the  will 

impression  that  in   this  instance  No.  2  is  of  Cardinal  Fred.  Borromeo,   the  founder 

intended.     The  Ambrosian  is  not  known  of  the  Ambrosian,  it  is  prohibited  to  make 

to   possess  a  copy  of  the   Silber  (our  No.  a  catalogue  of  that  great  library ;  the  books 

•}),  whilst  the  Brera    has,  or   had,  a  fine,  have  not  even  their  titles  inscribed  on  the 

though    incomplete    specimen    of    No.   2,  back,  which   may  account  for  a  plaquette 

which    has    lately    been    stolen.       When  of    that    description    escaping    the    lynx- 

Morelli,  Gianorini  and  Boss!  have  occasion  eyes   of  a  Bossi   or  a  Morelli.     Still,  the 

to  mention  a  four  leaves  unillustrated  edi-  omission    of    those    two    words  throws  a 

tion,  they  always  refer  to  one  in  the  Mag-  dubious     light    upon    Graesse's    assertion, 

liabechi  (No.  3).      Had  the  diligent  Bossi,  We  have  examined  four  copies  of  the  Sil- 

who  made  his  transcript  of  No.  2  from  the  ber,  and  heard  of  two  more,  none  of  which 

Brera  copy,  known   of  the  existence  of  a  omit  the  passage  Indie  supra  Gangem. 


8  Ribliotheca   Americana. 

IA.Q1..  3  at  Rome,  which  is  said  by  Morelli,  Gianorini,  Bossi 
and  others,  to  be  also  the  case  with  Nos.  i,  2,  and  4. 
There  are  no  positive  proofs  that  the  latter  are  Roman 
impressions,  but  the  probability  is  that  they  were  at 
least  published  in  Italy.  The  kind  of  type  used  is  a 
good  test  for  those  who  possess  the  means  of  compar 
ing:  but  in  the  absence  of  a  large  collection  of  dated  in- 

D  '  O 

cunabulte  we  propose  an  hypothesis.  Of  the  translator, 
de  Cosco,  we  know  absolutely  nothing;  but  there  is  no 
lack  of  precise  details  concerning  the  author  of  the  epi 
gram  which  is  at  the  end  of  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  and  4  (in  Nos.  5 
and  6  it  is  on  the  verso  of  the  first  leaf).  Although  called 
in  that  versified  eulogium  R.  L.  de  Corbaria,  his  name 
should  be  Berardus  or  Leonard  de  Carninis69,  whilst  he 
was,  from  1491  to  1498,  Bishop  of  Monte-Peloso, 
situated  in  the  kingdom  of  Naples,  but  a  direct  depen 
dency  of  Rome.  Now,  when  we  take  into  consideration 
the  short  time  which  elapsed  between  the  return  of  Co 
lumbus  and  the  publication  of  his  letter,  one  of  which 
(No.  3,  which  also  contains  the  epigram)  bears  the  un 
mistakable  date  of  1493  in  the  colophon;  the  distance 
between  Spain  and  Italy;  the  difficulty  of  sending  books 
or  letters  to  and  fro,  in  those  days,  and  the  fact  that 
the  epigrammatist  resided  in  Italy,  it  is  certainly  per 
mitted  to  infer  that  the  plaquette  before  us  is  the  work 
of  an  Italian  printer. 

The  types  used  in  Nos.  i,  2,  and  3  differ  from  each 
other  in  size,  form,  and  in  the  employment  of  contrac 
tions.  We  suppose,  therefore,  that  they  were  printed 
by  three  different  printers.  Franck  Silber,  usually  called 
Eucharius  Argenteus  or  Argyrios,  is  certainly  the  printer 
of  No.  3,  Guyot  Marchant  or  Mercator  that  of  Nos. 
5  and  6.  Nos.  i  and  4  have  the  same  type,  and  are, 
therefore,  the  work  of  one  printer,  who  is  supposed, 
from  the  great  similarity  found  to  exist  between  the  lat 
ter  and  the  books  printed  in  1493  by  Stephanus  Plannck, 

"9  UGHELLI,  Italia  Sacra  (ed.  of  Rome,  fol.,  1644-62);  Vol.  i,  page  1072. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  9 

to  be  the  work  of  that  excellent  typographer.  Jo-  14.93' 
hannes  Besicken  may  have  printed  No.  2.  Had  we 
access  to  some  of  the  early  publications  of  Plannck  and 
Besicken,  so  artistically  described  by  the  great  Audif- 
fredi,  we  might  hope,  perhaps,  to  establish  the  chrono 
logy  of  those  plaquettes.  But  in  the  absence  of  any 
typographical  criterion  to  ascertain  which  of  our  six  edi 
tions  is  entitled  to  the  much-coveted  place  of  editio 
princeps,  we  beg  leave  to  resort  to  another  hypothesis, 
which  the  reader  may  take  for  what  it  is  worth. 

Ferdinand  and  Isabella  reigned  conjointly  to  the  year 
1504.  We  have  already  stated  that  in  the  titles  of  four 
of  the  editions  the  name  of  Isabella  is  omitted,  as  if 
Ferdinand  was,  when  the  plaquettes  were  printed,  sole 
King  of  Spain.  This  would  be  a  presumption  that 
they  date  from  after  1504,  as  Ferdinand  reigned  until 
1516;  but  we  know  of  no  book  printed  by  Plannck 
after  1498,  and  of  Besicken,  whether  in  partnership  with 
Mayr  or  with  Martinus  of  Amsterdam,  after  1501. 
Besides,  Nos.  5  and  6,  which  also  omit  the  name  of 
Isabella,  bear  the  imprint  of  Guyot  Marchant,  who  cer 
tainly  ceased  to  print  before  1501;  the  Basle  edition  of 
the  Verardus^  which  gives,  in  a  kind  of  appendix,  the 
Columbus  letter,  evidently  taken  from  No.  2,  is  plainly 
dated  on  the  verso  of  the  twenty-ninth  leaf:  1494.  We 
must,  therefore,  consider  the  absence  of  the  Queen's  name 
in  Nos.  i,  2,  5  and  6,  involving,  as  it  does,  a  grammati 
cal  change  which  runs  through  the  entire  sentence,  as  a 
premeditated  omission,  which  was  afterwards  repaired  in 
Nos.  3  and  4. 

The  claims  of  5  and  6  we  set  aside,  for  it  is  not  likely 
that  the  letter  was  sent  to  Paris  before  it  reached  Rome. 
Bossi  justly  remarks  that  the  Spanish  sovereigns  would 
lose  no  time  in  dispatching  an  official  account  to  the 
Holy-See,  in  order  to  obtain  from  the  Pope  the  inves 
titure  of  the  newly  discovered  lands.  On  the  other 
hand,  it  is  well  known  that  after  Charles  VIII  had  re 
stored  Roussillon  and  Cerdagne  to  Ferdinand  by  the 


io  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1403.  Treaty  of  Barcelona,  January  I9th,  1493,  the  Spanish 
Monarch,  anxious  as  he  was  to  find  a  pretense  to  disregard 
his  own  engagements  relating  to  the  Kingdom  of  Naples, 
took  no  extraordinary  pains  to  make  himself  aoreeable 
to  Charles  VIII. 

We  believe  that  an  official  account  was  sent  from 
the  Court  of  Spain  to  Rome,  previous  even  to  the 
second  Embassy  of  Obedience  intrusted  to  Carvajal;  the 
Bull  of  Concession  of  May  jd70,  and  the  Bull  of  De 
marcation  of  May  4th,  I49371,  are  conclusive  on  that 
point ;  but  we  are  not  prepared  to  say  that  the  said  ac 
count  was  the  Letter  of  Columbus.  The  latter  was 
originally  written  in  Spanish,  and  although  the  reigning 
Pope,  Alexander  Borgia,  was  a  Spaniard  by  birth,  the 
dispatch  sent  by  Isabella,  being  an  official  document,  it 
must  have  been  in  Latin.  The  letter,  however,  may 
have  been  added  to  the  package ;  but  if  it  was  not  sent 
in  the  original  Spanish,  some  obscure  clerk  in  the 
Foreign  Office  is  entitled  to  the  merit  or  demerit  of  the 
version  ;  nor  do  we  believe  that  his  name  would  have 
been  inserted  in  the  title.  The  fact  that  the  communi 
cations  were  much  more  frequent  and  facile  between 
Italy  and  Spain  than  between  Spain  and  France,  is  a 
sufficient  reason  to  consider  the  Paris  editions  of  the 
De  Insults  as  mere  reprints. 

Nos.  3  and  4,  being  set  aside  because  they  contain  the 
name  of  the  Queen,  and  Nos.  5  and  6  simply  on  ac 
count  of  their  origin,  Nos.  i  and  2  only  remain.  But 
which  of  these  two  is  the  editio  princeps  ? 

No.  i  is  a  plain  plaquette,  without  even  an  orna 
mented  or  red-printed  initial,  so  common  in  those  days, 
whilst  No.  2  contains  no  less  than  seven  (the  eighth 
being  only  a  repetition)  elaborate  woodcuts,  five  of 
which  cover  each  an  entire  page.  Now,  when  we  recol 
lect  the  importance  of  the  news  which  the  Letter  was 


70  NAVARKETE,   Coleccion  de  los   -viages  ;          71  EDEN,  Decades  of  the  Neive 
Vol.  n,  pages  22-35.  Lond.,  410,  1555,  pages  167-171. 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


ii 


intended  to  convey,  and  the  time  required  to  prepare    1 4.9  3, 
the  woodcuts,  it  is  fair  to  assume  that  the  unillustrated 
edition,  which,  all  things  considered,  was  only  what  we 
would  now  call  an    cc  extra,"  was  published  first.     We 
therefore  suppose  that  No.  i  is  the  editio  princeps7*. 

On  the  verso  of  the  tenth  leaf  of  No.  2  there  is  a 
woodcut,  comprising  the  word  "  Granata,"  and  the  arms 
of  that  city,  which  might  lead,  perhaps,  to  the  belief  that 
No.  2  was  printed  in  Granada,  and  therefore  before  any 
of  the  other  editions,  but  for  the  following  objections: 
In  the  first  place,  if  we  can  understand  how  a  stranger 
five  hundred  leagues  away  should  not  know  that  both 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella  were  on  the  throne,  it  is  difficult 
to  believe  that  the  same  ignorance  could  prevail  at 
Granada,  especially  in  the  year  following  its  conquest  by 
the  two  sovereigns.  In  the  second  place,  armorial 
bearings  cannot  be  considered  a  test,  as  they  are  not 
unfrequently  found  on  books  known  to  have  been 
printed  in  cities  or  countries  which  do  not  claim  as 
their  own  the  inserted  escutcheon.75  For  instance,  the 
Mundus  NovuSj  which  was  printed  for  Wm.  Vorster- 


72  The  following  title,  which  we  borrow 
from  the  Livres  Curieux  (No.  106),  if 
correctly  given,  and  an  Italian  edition, 
would  prove  a  formidable  rival  for  the  po 
sition  of  editio  princeps — not  because  it 
bears  the  date  of  1492,  but  for  the  reason 
that  it  is  unillustrated,  and  omits  the  name 
of  Isabella.  In  fact,  there  is  no  argument 
alleged  in  favor  of  No.  I  which  could  not 
apply  to  the  following  :  "  Epistola  Chris- 
tofori  Colom,  cui  etas  nostra  multum  de- 
bet ;  de  Insulis  Indiae  supra  Gangem  nuper 
inventis.  Ad  quas  perq.-rendas  octavo  an- 
tca  mense  ausspiciis  et  ere  in-victissimi  Fer- 
nandi  Hispaniarum  Regis  missus  fuerat 
(au  lieu  de  Fernandi  et  Helisabet  Return 
missus  fuerat)  Ad  magnificum  duum 
Gabrielem  Sanchis — missa  :  quam  nobilis 
ac  litteratus  vir  Leander  de  Cosco  ab  His- 
pano  idiomate  in  latinum  convertit  tertio 
kal's  Maii  m.cccc.xcii.  [s/V].  Pontifi- 
catus  Alexandri  Sexti  Anno  primo.  (4 
feuillets,  dont  les  pages  entieres  portent  33 


lignes.)"      Evidently  a  cross  between  No. 
I  and  No.  3 — if  not  a  myth  altogether. 

The  title  to  the  text  published  by  Mr. 
Major  also  differs  from  any.  It  seems  to 
follow  No.  4,  but  whilst  the  latter  calls 
the  Treasurer  Gabriel  Sanches,  in  the  Select 
Letters  he  is  named  Raphael  Sanxis.  Must 
we  view  this  difference  as  a  correction  in 
troduced  by  the  learned  editor,  or  as  indi 
cating  another  edition  ? 

As  to  the  allusion  in  Pinelo-Barcia  (col. 
564),  made  on  the  authority  of  Draudius, 
and  repeated  by  Navarrete,  which  might 
convey  the  impression  that  a  separate  edi 
tion  of  the  Letter  had  been  given  by  one 
Enrique  Pedro,  of  Basle,  we  scarcely  need 
say  that  the  Bibliotheca  Classica  of  Drau 
dius  (page  718,  edit,  of  1611)  refers  only 
to  the  collection  published  by  the  monk 
Robert,  under  the  title  of  Bellum  Chrh- 
tianorum,  and  printed  at  Basle  in  1533. 

73  CHEVILLIER,  Origine  de  rimprimeric  ; 
Paris,  4to,  1694. 


12  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

mann,  of  Antwerp  (see  infra).,  contains  on  the  last  leaf 
,  the  double-headed  eagle  coat-of-arms,  and  the  escut 
cheon  of  the  latter  city,  yet  it  is  generally  believed 
that  the  plaquette  was  printed  somewhere  on  the 
Lower-Rhine,  where  neither  Charles  V  nor  Philip  II 
ever  reigned.  In  the  third  place,  we  have  shown  that 
the  epigram,  which  is  in  No.  2  as  well  as  in  No.  i, 
was  the  production  of  an  Italian  Bishop,  who  then 
lived  near  Rome.  Finally,  not  only  Maittaire74,  La 
Caille75,  Cabrera76,  Mendez77,  Orlandi78,  and  the  leading 
historians  of  the  Typographical  Art  assert  that  printing 
was  not  introduced  into  Granada  until  1496,  but,  to 
quote  La  Serna  Santander,  the  highest  authority  on 
such  matters :  c<  Primer  volumen  de  vita  Christi,  de 
Fray  Franc.  Ximenez,  in  fol.,  1496,  est  la  seule  impres 
sion  connue  faite  a  Grenade  dans  le  XVe  siecle ;  ce  qui 
n'a  rien  d' extraordinaire  quand  on  sait  que  cette  ville  su- 
perbe  ne  fut  conquise  sur  les  Maures  qu'en  Fan  1492. "79 
Were  we  called  upon  to  advance  a  supposition  as  to 
what  English  philosophers  would  now  term  the  genesis  of 
those  editions,  we  should  say,  that  on  the  receipt  of  the 
great  news  in  Spain  the  Letter  of  Columbus  was  made 
public,  and  printed  in  the  original  Spanish,  probably  at 
Barcelona,  by  Posa,  Michael,  or  Barro,  or  at  Seville,  by 
Ungut  and  Polonus,  in  a  kind  of  semi-gothic  character, 
resembling,  we  imagine,  the  Santangel  Letter  (No.  7). 
That  when  Francesco  Marchesi  and  Giovanni  Antonio. 
Grimaldi,  the  Genoese  Embassadors,  returned  to  Italy 
a  short  time  after  the  arrival  of  the  transatlantic  expedi 
tion  (Senaregail),  they  procured  some  of  those  pla- 
quettes,  one  of  which  may  yet  come  to  light  in  some 
private  or  public  library  of  Genoa,  Rome,  Naples,  or 
Florence,  just  as  a  copy  of  the  Santangel  was  discovered 

74  Annaics  Typogr.  ;  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  page  "  Typograp/iia  Esfano/a  ;  Madrid,  410, 

76  (edit,  of  1733).  1796,  page  345. 

76  Histoirc  de  rimprimeric  ;  Paris,  410,  7b  Ongine  dellc  Stampa  ,•  Bologna,  4to, 

1689,  pnge  49.  1722,  page  214 

76  Memorial ;  p.  10,  apud  the  follow-  79  Dictionnairc  Bibliographiquc  ;  Suppl., 

ing :  •  Bruxelles,  8vo,  1805,  Vol.  in,  page  516. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  13 

a  short  time  since  among  the  books  bequeathed  by  Cus- 
todi  to  the  Ambrosian  library.  The  results  of  Colum 
bus'  voyage  were  so  flattering  to  his  countrymen  that 
the  Spanish  accounts  must  have  circulated  freely,  and 
easily  found  their  way  into  the  large  cities  of  Italy.  A 
copy  having  been  secured  either  by  Cosco  or  the  Bishop 
of  Monte-  Peloso,  the  former  undertook  to  translate  it 
into  Latin,  and  add  a  title,  while  the  latter  inserted  the 
following  epigram  : 


C  IBpigramma.  K.  H.  tre  OTorimria  IBpi 
palufij.  Et»  Jn-||  btctifttmum  Kcgem  f^ifpauiannn 

Jam  milla  fgtfpantg  tellus  atrtrentra  triumpijte, 

Etcp  parum  tantis  birifcus  orte  erat 

litinc  Irmge  ems  regto  treprenfa  fufc  bnlrte. 

Euctura  eft  tituios  13etice  magne  tuosi 

repettoti  incrito  tefereittra  OToiumtrj 

(Btatia  :  fttr  fttmmo  eft  mator  fjafcewlra  tieo. 

bincctttia  parat  noua  regna  titicp  fii)i(p 

fttnul  fortem  preftat  et  effe  ptum.80 


The  manuscript  was  then  intrusted  to  Stephanus 
Plannck,  who  immediately  printed  No.  i  ;  the  success 
of  which,  as  they  had  no  copyright  in  those  days,  in 
duced  Johannes  Besicken,  who  had  lately  come  or  sim 
ply  returned  from  Basle  (where,  in  imitation  of  the 
Nuremberg  printers,  it  was  a  common  thing  to  insert 
a  number  of  woodcuts),  to  prepare  an  illustrated  edi 
tion,  which  is  our  No.  2.  The  grave  omission  in  the 

B0  E  p  i  G  R  A  M  , 

BY    R.    L.    DE    CORBARIA,    BISHOP    OF    MONTE-PELOSO. 

To  the  In-vincible  King  of  the  Sfains  :  And  the  mid-ocean  summons  to  thy  sway  ! 

Less  wide  the  world  than   the  renown  of  Give  thanks  to   him  —  but  loftier  homage 

Spain,  pay 

To  swell  her  triumphs  no  new  lands  remain  !  To  God  Supreme,  who  gives  its  realms  to 
Rejoice,  Iberia!  see  thy  fame  increased  !  thee  ! 

Another  world  Columbus  from  the  East  Greatest  of  monarchs,  first  of  servants  be  ! 


!4  Bibliotbeca   Americana. 

1403.  title  of  the  name  of  Queen  Isabella,  combined  with 
the  demand  for  the  news  which,  as  we  know,  was  una 
bated,  prompted  Franck  Silber  to  publish  a  corrected 
edition,  which  is  our  No.  3 ;  on  seeing  which,  Plannck 
also  made  a  new  edition,  but  with  the  improved  title 
taken  from  Silber,  and  which  is  our  No.  4.  It  is  pro 
bable  that  copies  of  the  earliest  editions  were  the  first 
sent  abroad,  and  that  Nos.  5  and  6  were  copied  in  Paris 
from  No.  i,  while  the  edition  inserted  in  the  Verardus  of 
Basle,  I49481,  was  copied  from  No.  2. 

We  have  never  seen,  among  the  early  historians,  a 
direct  reference  to  any  of  the  fifteenth  century  editions 
of  the  De  Insults,  although  we  fancy  that  traces  can  be 
found  in  the  works  of  Sabellico,  Maffei  of  Volterra,  and 
Bergomas.  After  1511  it  becomes  obvious  that  all 
the  references  to  Columbus  and  his  voyages  are  inspired 
by  the  Raccolta  of  Vicenza,  its  various  translations,  and 
the  Decades  of  Peter  Martyr.  Towards  the  end  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  authors,  including  even  Conrad  Ges- 
ner,  begin  to  quote  the  Letter  itself,  but  in  almost  all 
instances  it  is  with  the  addition  of  an  honest  apud, 
referring  directly  to  the  monk  Robert's  Bellum  Chris- 
tianorum  Principum. 

De  Cosco's  Latin  translation  was  republished  in  an 
appendix  to  Charles  Verardo's  drama  on  the  conquest 
of  Granada81,  and  afterwards  inserted  in  Robert's  collec 
tion82.  In  1602  Andrew  Schott83  again  published  the 
De  Insulis  in  his  rare  Hispania  illustrata^.  It  is  also  in 
Amati's  Storico-Critico-Sdentifichey  copied  from  No.  484. 

81  In  laudem  Serenhsimi  Ferdinandi,  &c.  ;  Verardus,   folio,  printed   in   Basle,    1533," 

1494,  sine  loco  (Basle,  by  de  Olpe),  8vo,  last  which   we   think  to    be   only  the   follow- 

seven  leaves;  which  edition  of  1494  we  be-  ing  : 

lieve  to  be  the  only  one  of  the  original  Ve-  82  Bellum  Christianorum  principum ;  Basle, 

rarduses  containing   the    De    Insults     The  fol.,  1533,  page  116,  sq. 

Rassdel  catalogue  (No.  1117)  mentions  a  M  The  mysterious  and  introu-vablc  "  Es- 

Rome  edition  with  the.  Dt  Insulis,   1494,  coto"  of  Munoz  and  Navarrete.     83Frank- 

which  we  think  erroneous,  as  the  Rome  fort,  5  vols,  fol.,  1603-8,  art.  xxn,  Vol  n, 

editions   of   the   Verardus   do  not  contain  page  1282,  sq. 

the  Letter.     Mr.   Major,  in  his  valuable  H4  Milan,  8vo,  1828-30;  Vol.  iv,  pages 

Select  Letters,  page  vi,  also  quotes  "another  314-18,    from    a    copy    in    the    Trivulgio 

edition  of  the  letter  forming  a  sequel  to  libr.,  Milan. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  ir 

We  find  the  text  with   a    French  version   in   C.  M.     14.0  7, 
LJrano's   translation  of  Bossi85,  in  the  Paris  edition   of 
Navarrete86,  and  in  M.  de  Rosny's  late  publication87. 

With  an  Italian  version,  the  text,  taken  from  No.  2, 
has  been  inserted  in  the  original  work  of  Bossi42.  Navar 
rete'  gives  it  from  No.  3,  with  a  Spanish  translation,  and 
Mr.  Major  with  a  correct  English  version  and  valuable 
introduction  in  his  Select  Letters^.  It  is  likewise  in  our 
Notes  on  Columbus^  copied  line  for  line,  with  the  original 
abbreviations,  from  No.  i. 

In  Italian  alone,  it  is  inserted  in  a  pompous  octavo, 
lately  published88. 

A  German  translation  was  printed  as  early  as  1497 
(see/#/r0),  whilst,  according  to  Tross89,  one  Charles  Fon 
taine  dedicated  to  "  M.  d'lvor,  Secretaire  du  Roy," 
a  French  version,  which  was  published  at  Lyons  by 
Rigaud,  in  1559,  i6mo,  under  the  title  of  "  La  De 
scription  des  terres  trouuees  de  nostre  temps." 

The  first  version  in  English — and  a  very  poor  one  it 
is — we  find  in  the  Edinburgh  Review^  \  the  last  was  given 
in  the  New  York  Historical  Magazine**1. 

Direct  references  :  |"  MEUSEL,  Eibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  x,  Part  n,  page  237. 
-J  Aspinwall  Catalogue,  No.  i. 
|  TERNAUX,  Blbliothequt  Am'ericaine,  No.  2. 
Sykes'  Catalogue,  Part  in,  No.  234. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  158. 
Serapeum,  1845,  Vol.  vi,  page  350. 

Appendix  to  N.  Y.  reprint  of  Syllacio,  page  xliii ;  letter  B. 
BRUNET,  Manuel,  Vol.  n,  col.  163. 
GKAESSE,  Trcsor,  Vol  II,  page  228. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  fol.,  1865,  pages  117-124;  letter  A. 

85  Paris,  8vo,  1824,  and  1825-8.  the  notes  in  the  hand  of  Columbus,  which 

86  Paris,  8vo,  1828.  fill  the    margin   of  the  copy  of  D'Ailly's 

87  Lettre    de    Christophe    Cnlomb ;    Paris,  Imago  mundi,  in    the  Columbian   library  at 
8vo,  1865,  44  pp.  Seville. 

88  Raccolta  completa  ;  s.  I.  (Lyons),  8vo,          89  Catalogue,  1865,  No.  1366 

1864,  with  a  stately  portrait  of  the  trans-  "°  For   Decemb.,    1816,  pages   505-11. 

lator,  which,  in  a  complete  collection,  might  Republished    in    the    Analectic   Magazine, 

have   been  replaced   with  advantage  by  a  Vol.  ix,  pages  516-522. 

transcript  of  the  Libra  de  Profecias,  and  of  91  For  April,  1865,  pages  114-118. 


1 6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2.    COLUMBUS    (CHRISTOPHER}— Recto  of  the  second  leaf : 


nfitlte  imwttte 


ISpiftoia  OMftoferi  Ololom  (cui  etas  noftrall  muU 
tu  fcebet:  tie  Jnfitlte  in  mari  Jntiieo  nup  ||  inuette. 
Efc  pas  perpirento  octauo  antea  ||  mettfe :  auk 
ptctjs  et  ere  Juutctimmi  ,ifernantii||^ifpaniarum 
Hepsmtttus  fuerat)  atJ  Jttas- 1|  nifmtm  tinm 
pijaele?  g>an:mj:  eiufte  fere-||ntttimi  IRe 
faurariii  mitfa.  pam  noWHlte  ae  litterat?  bit 
anlret  fl  €ofco:  at  |^if-||pauo  gtreomate  in  latinu 
couuertit:  tercio  ttrs||Jiila(j.  W.ccce.mtj. 

t  Enno  |)rtmo.  II* 


*.,.*  Sm.  8vo,  sine  loco  aut  anno ;  ten  leaves,  twenty-seven  lines  in  a 
full  page;  eight  woodcuts,  viz. :  single  escutcheon  of  Castile 
and  Leon  on  recto  of  the  first  leaf;  and  on  the  verso  a  vessel, 
with  the  words  :  Oceanica  c/assis  ;  on  verso  of  the  second  leaf, 
men  landing,  and  Insula  hyspana  ;  on  verso  of  the  third  leaf,  a 
kind  of  map,  with  the  words:  Fernada,  Tsabelln,  byspana, 
saluatorie,  conceptores,  marie,  and  a  caravel  ;  on  the  recto  of 
the  fifth  leaf,  the  woodcut  of  the  verso  of  the  second  leaf  is 
repeated  ;  on  the  verso  of  the  sixth  leaf,  a  town  or  fort  in 
process  of  construction,  and  the  words  Insula  byspana  ,•  on 
recto  of  the  tenth  leaf,  full-length  portrait  of  Ferdinand,  hold 
ing  the  escutcheon  of  Castile  and  Leon  in  his  right  hand, 
and  that  of  Granada  in  his  left,  and  the  words  :  FernatT  rex 
byspania ;  on  the  verso,  solitary  coat-of-arms  of  Granada,  and 
the  word  Granata.  No  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


*  Anglice  :    Concerning  islands  discov-  addressed  to  the  noble  lord  Raphael  Sanx- 

ered.       Letter    from    Christopher    Colom  is :    Treasurer    of   the    same    most   serene 

(to  whom  our  age  oweth  much  :   concern-  King,   which    the  noble  and  learned  man 

ing  the    islands    in  the   Indian   sea   recent-  Allander    de     Cosco  :    translated    from    the 

ly  discovered.      In    search    of  which    he  Spanish     idiom     into     Latin  :     the     third 

was   sent  eight   months    ago  :    under    the  day   of  the  calends  of  May,  1493.      'rne 

auspices  and   at    the   expense    of  the    in-  Year  One  of  the   Pontificate  of  Alexan- 

vincible  King  of  the   Spains   Ferdinand),  der  VI. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  1 7 

The  present  is  the  only  perfect  copy  known,  and  for-     14.03, 

merly  belonged  to   M.   Libri.     There  is  another  copy 

in  the  British  Museum.  There  was  one  also  in  the 
Brera  library  at  Milan,  which  served  for  Bossi's1  and 
the  Edinburgh  Review'2-  versions,  but  it  has  lately  been 
stolen5.  The  latter,  as  well  as  the  Grenville  copy,  lacks 
the  tenth  leaf,  and  therefore  the  last  two  woodcuts. 

Brunet4,  in  answer  to  the  supposition  that  the  present 
might  have  been  printed  at  Granada,  because  it  bears 
the  arms  of  that  city,  says  :  "  Cette  conjecture  serait 
fort  hazardee,  car  les  memes  armes  se  trouvent  dans 
1'edition  imprimee  a  Bale  en  1494."  What  we  find  in 
the  Basle  edition  (see  infra]  and  in  the  present,  in  the 
form  of  an  escutcheon,  is  the  coat-of-arms  which  Fer 
dinand  holds  in  his  left  hand  ;  but  the  solitary  shield, 
which  is  so  conspicuous  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf 
of  this  No.  2,  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  Verardus^ 
nor  in  any  other  book  mentioned  by  bibliographers. 

Direct  references:  (  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  158,  where  the  date  of  "  1494  or 
1495"  is  ascribed  to  the  above,  "as  it  contains  the  same  wood 
cuts  as  those  used  in  the  fourth  edition  of  Bernardinus  de  Olpe," 
which  is  totally  inadmissible,  as  the  latter  lacks  three  woodcuts, 
to  say  the  least. 

HAIN,  Refertorium,  No.    5491. 

N.  Y.  Syllacio,  page  xliii;  letter  A. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  2,2,8. 

Notes  on  Columbus,  pages  118-120;  letter  B. 

1  Vita    di    Cristoforo    Colombo  ;     Milan,  suits  In-ventis.     Eodem   fol.  2.  verso  tabu- 
8vo,   1818,   pages   167-174,    and  French  la  exhibens  Insulam  Hyspanam.     Fol.  3. 
translation,   Paris,   8vo,  1824,  pages  2,03-  recto  sequitur  Epistola,  eodem  verso  tabula 
2,4.1.  exhibens    Insulas   Fernandam,    Isabellam, 

2  For  December,  1816,  pages  505-11.  &c.     Fol.  4.  sequitur  textus.     Fol.  5.  recto 

3  The  following  description,  copied  from  iteratur  tabula  exhibens  Oceanicum  classcm. 
a  manuscript  annotation  in  the  Brera  li-  eod.  verso,   uti   &  fol.   6°.  sequitur  textus. 
brary,  and  which  betrays  the  hand  of  an  Fol.    7°    verso    tabula    exhibens    Insulam 
adept,  probably  that  of  Zaccaria,  fully  iden-  Hyspanam.      Deinde  sequitur  textus  usque 
tifies  the  copy  :  ad  9™   fol.  rectum  quo  Epistola  absolvitur 

"  Constat    foliolis  novem  in   8°   vel  4°  absque  ulla  nota  typograph.  char.  est.  Go- 

parvo.  Fol.  primo  recto  habentur  insignia  thicus  nitidus.      Linea  in  qualibet  pag.  27. 

Regis    Hispaniae.    cum    Inscriptione    Reg.  Desunt  custodes  &  numeri  paginar.      Fol. 

Hispaniae  ;     eod.     verso     tabula     exhibens  jm.    2m.   3™.  &  4°%   prae   se   ferunt  signa- 

Oceanicam  classem.      Fol.  2d"  recto  Epistolae  turas  i,  ij,  iij.     Tabulae  ligno  exculptae,  sed 

initium    cum  titulo  supra  relato  cui   prae-  satis  elegantes.      Initiales  literae  pictae." 

mittuntur  haec  verba  char.  maj.      De   In-  *  Manuel,  Vol.  n,  col.  163. 


1  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  3.    COLUMBUS   (CHRISTOPHER)—  (E 

=  OMom  :  cui  etas  noftra  multum  trefcet:  fce||  JnMte 
Jntrte  fupra  <&angem  nuper  inuetis.  &tr  quag  per^ 
quirenlltras  octauo  antea  menfe  aufpictte  r  ere  faz 
uictittimorum  J^tnantri  ||  ac  f^eiifatet  i^ifpania^ 
mittus  fuerat:  atr  J&agnificu  trnm||<§atrie=: 
:  eorunfcem  fmmttimorutn  MegumEe= 
mttta:  <®ua  generofus  ac  litteratug  bit 
Ueantrer  *re  (^ofco  atlll^ifpano  itriomate  itt  latinu 
wuertit:  tertio  l^aleft  Waij. 
titicattts  ^lexantrti  S^ti  &nno 

Colophon  : 

(E  JmpreJTit  fttime 
no  trfti. 


*!)c*  Sm.  410,  three  unnumbered  printed  leaves  and  one  blank,  forty 
lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


'\ 


MuRoz,  Historia  del  Nurvo  MunJo,  page  7. 

NAVARRETE,  Colcccton,  Vol    I,  page  176. 

Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  158. 

TERNAUX,  Biblioth.  Amiricalne,  No.  3. 

Appendix  to  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  page  xlv  ;  letter  D. 

Notes  on  Columbus,  page  122  ;  letter  C. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  164. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  75,  states  that  the  copy  in  the  Ambrosian 
library  lacks,  in  the  title,  the  words  supra  Gangcm.  We  have 
examined  four  copies  ourself,  and  read  the  description  of  five  more, 
but  without  discovering  such  an  omission.  The  only  supposed 
variation  is  in  : 

Boone's  Lond.  Catal.,  No.  278,  where  there  is  a  mention  of  a  copy 
alleged  to  have  the  date  printed  "  1492,"  and  which  we  think  to 
be  only  the  above  with  the  last  figure  effaced  or  blurred,  which  is 
not  a  very  uncommon  device  on  the  part  of  certain  booksellers 
to  find  a  ready  market  for  their  wares. 


*  Anglicl  :    Letter    from     Christopher  bella  :  addressed  to  the  noble  lord    Gabriel 

Colom  :    to  whom  our  age  oweth  much  :  Sanche^    Treasurer    of  the    most    serene 

concerning   the    Islands  of  India  beyond  Sovereigns  :    which  the  liberal  and  learned 

the  Ganges  recently  discovered.      In   the  man  Leander  de  Cosco  translated   from  the 

search     of    which     he     was    sent     eight  Spanish    idiom  into  Latin,  the  third  day  of 

months    ago    under  the    auspices    and    at  the  calends  of  May,  1493  ;  the  Year  One  of 

the  expense  of  the    most  invincible  Sov-  the  Pontificate  of  Alexander  VI.     Printed 

ereigns  of  the  Spains,  Ferdinand  and   ha-  at  Rome  by  Eucharius  Silber,  A.  D.  1493. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  19 

4»     COLUMBUS    (CHRISTOPHORUS)-(L  ISptftflia 

fort  <£olom  :  cut  etas  noftra  multu  iretet:  tre| 
fults  Jntrie  fupra  (Slangem  nuper  uuietts.  Eft 

octauo  antea  menfe  aufpictte  r  ere  in 


mtttus  fuerat  :  at  magnificum  fcftm  II  (Balmeiem 
Sandjte  eorunfce  ferenitttmo^  Megum  Eefaurariull 
mitta  :  pa  noMlis  ac  litteratus  bir  Heantrer  tie 
<£ofto  at  l^tfpa  ||  no  itriomate  in  latinum  couertit 
tertio  fcai's  IHaii.  iil.ecce.Kiitlnaonttficatus 
anfcri  gexti  Enno  primo.H* 


*+*  Sm.  4to,  j/'»^  <?w»o  tfa/  loco,  four  leaves,   thirty   lines  in  a  full 
page.     No  water-mark. 

I  Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.  The  only 
other  copies  known  are  in  the  British  Museum,  the 
Munich  Royal  Library,  and  in  the  collection  of  a  French 
amateur.) 

Direct  references  :  \  Fossi,  Bibliotk,  Magliabcchi,  Vol.  i,  col.  561. 

-[  PANZER,    Annalcs     Typogr.,    Vol.     n,     page     544,    ascribes     it     to 

Plannck. 
CANCELLIERI,   Diuerta*ionit   page    127;    on    the    authority   of   the 

famous  Danish  physician,  P.  G.  Hensler. 

HAIN,  Rcpcrtorium,  Vol.  i,  Part  11,  No.  54489  [sic  fro  5489). 
Bibliotbeca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  837,  "bound  with  this  are  several 

Latin  Orations,  printed  at  Rome  at  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  cen 

tury.   From  Cardinal  Fesch's  library." 
Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana^  page  158. 
TERNAUX,  Biblioth.  Americainc,  No.  I. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  11,  col.  164. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  228. 
Tross'  Catalogue,  1865,  No.  4.      Notwithstanding   the  high    price, 

the  catalogue  was  scarcely  out  that  there  were  seven  applications 

for  the  plaquette. 

Appendix  to  N.  Y.  Sy//acio,  page  xlv  ;  letter  C,  and  in 
Notes  on  Columbus,  page  122;  letter  D. 

*  Anglice  :  Letter  from  Christopher  Co-  noble     lord     Gabriel     SancAis,     Treasurer 

lom  :    to   whom    our   age  oweth    much  :  of    the    same     most    serene    Monarchs  : 

concerning   the    Islands  of   India    beyond  which  the    noble    and   learned    man   Le 

the   Ganges  recently  discovered.      In  the  under  de  Cosco  translated  from  the  Span- 

search   of  which    he   was   sent,  under  the  ish    idiom    into    Latin,   the    third   day   of 

auspices   and  at  the  expense  of  the  most  the    calends   of  May,    1493.      The  Year 

invincible   Sovereigns   of  the  Spains,  Per-  one     of     the     Pontificate     of    Alexander 

dinand    and     Isabella  :     addressed    to    the  VI. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

.      COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


jwriftn0  in  cqw  gaillarM 


Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

CjriMa  Cfjnftofori  Con 

lorn  :  cui  etas  nta  muitu  trefcet  :  tie  Jnfuits  intrie 
fupra  (Bangemllnuper  inuentis.  Etr  quag  petpire= 
tras  octauo  antea  menfe  au  ||  fpictjs  r  ere  tnuictt^ 
ttmi  jFernantii  l^ifpaniarum  Megis  miffug  ||  fuerat  : 
afc  magnificii  tin{  Hapijaeiem  Sanxi^:  eiuttre  fere^ 
nifH  ||  mi  i&egte  ^efautartu  miffa  :  qua  nottlte  ac 
Ifatus  bit  Eliatrer  litre  OMco  at  ?^ifpano  itreomate 
in  iattnu  cnnuertit:  tercio  fersi||  JHaij. 
^otificatus  Elexatrri.  In.  ilnno  primo.l 

In  fine  : 

(Kfttiftofcitus  (ftdlom  ©ceane  rlaffig 


*^*  Sm.  410,  j-/^^1  ^»w<7,  but  printed,  like  the  following,  by  Guyot 
Marchant,  as  it  bears  the  imprint  of  the  Cbamp-Gaillard. 
Four  leaves,  including  the  title  ;  thirty-nine  lines  in  a.  full 
page.  The  woodcut  representing  Guyot  Marchant's  mark, 
which  we  reproduce  in  No.  6,  is  not  in  this.  On  the  verso 
of  the  first  leaf,  a  woodcut  representing  the  angel  appearing  to 
the  shepherds. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

*  Anglice:  Letter  concerning  the  Islands  the  most  invincible  King  of  Spain,  Fer- 

newly  discovered.  Printed  at  Paris  in  the  dinand  :  addressed  to  the  noble  lord  Ra- 

Champ-Gaillard.  phael  Sanxis  :  Treasurer  of  the  same  most 

Letter  from  Christopher  Colom  :  to  serene  King  :  which  the  noble  and  learned 

whom  our  age  oweth  much  :  concerning  man  Aliander  de  Cosco  translated  from 

the  Islands  of  India  beyond  the  Ganges  the  Spanish  idiom  into  Latin  :  the  third 

recently  discovered.  In  the  search  of  day  of  the  calends  of  May,  1493.  Of  the 

which  he  was  sent  eight  months  ago  Pontificate  of  Alexander  VI,  the  Year  one. 

under  the  auspices  and  at  the  expense  of  1  BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  164. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  21 

This  copy,  which  originally  belonged  to  Ternaux1 
(although  it  is  mentioned  neither  in  the  Rassdel  Cata 
logue  nor  in  the  Bibliotheque  Americaine],  is  supposed  to 
be  the  only  one  known;  but  a  pamphlet2  which  we  have 
just  received  from  Paris  leads  us  to  the  belief  that  the 
Imperial  library  in  that  city  likewise  contains  this  No.  5. 
The  said  pamphlet  professes  to  give  the  text  "  d'apres 
la  rarissime  version  latine  conservee  a  la  Bibliotheque 
Imperiale;"  and  we  see  from  the  transcript  that  the  first 
line  in  the  title  reads  :  "  Epistola  de  Insulis  de  Nouo  re 
pertis ,"  and  that  it  also  contains  the  subscription  at  the 
end.  The  reader  will  notice  that  the  first  line  in  No.  6 
reads  "  Epistola  de  insulis  nouiter  repertis"  while  it  omits 
altogether  the  closing  subscription  :  Christoforus  Colom 
Oceane  classis  Prefectus. 

Direct  references :  j  STEVENS,  American  Bibliographer,  page  67. 
-j   Historical  Nuggets,  No.  618. 

j  EBURT,  Vol.  i,  page  371,  for  this  or  the  following,  as  they  are  the 
only  ones  which  have  the  word  repertis  instead  of  in-ventis  in 
the  first  title. 

Appendix  to  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  pages  xlvi-xlvii ;  letter  E. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  page  123  ;  letter  F. 


2  Lettre  de  Christophe  Colomb.  Traduite 
par  Lucicn  de  Rosny  ,•  Paris,  8vo,  1865; 
44  pp.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  "Co- 
mite  d'Archeologie  Americainede  France" 
— whatever  that  is,  and  under  whose  auspi 
ces  that  reprint  has  been  published — should 
not  have  endeavored  to  explore  the  Bibli- 
otheques  Imperiale  and  Mazarine,  which 
certainly  contain  rarities  relating  to  Ameri 
can  bibliography,  and  the  description  of 
which  would  have  given  some  value  to  their 
"  appendice  bibliographique."  The  trans 
lator  of  the  Columbus  letter  in  the  Edinb. 
Re-view  for  December,  1816,  states  (page 
510),  after  describing  the  Brera :  "We 
have  seen  three  other  copies  in  the  French 
King's  library  at  Paris."  M.  de  Rosny 's 
pamphlet  (although  very  imperfect  as  a 
bibliographical  contribution,  as  it  does  not 
even  give  the  numberof  pages,  and  neglects 
to  mention  the  woodcut)  enables  us  to  ac 
count  for  one ;  but  what  are  the  other 
two  ?  We  also  beg  leave  to  correct 
some  slight  mistakes.  The  Codex  diplo- 
maticus  (i.  e.  Codice  Diplomatico  Colombo- 


Americano)  was  not  published  at  "  Gene-ve," 
but  at  Genoa ;  nor  does  it  contain  the 
Journal  of  Columbus,  to  which  M.  de 
Rosny  imagines  the  great  navigator  alludes 
when  he  writes  :  "  quee  te  uniuicujusqut 
rei  in  hoc  nostro  itinere  gcst<e  in-venteeque 
admoneant."  The  only  traces  of  that  valu 
able  journal,  unfortunately  abridged  by  Las 
Casas,  which  we  could  find  outside  of  Na- 
vairete  (Coleccion,  Vol.  i,  pages  1-175, 
and  in  the  Fr.  transl.,  Vol.  11,  pages  I- 
338),  is  in  a  volume,  now  very  scarce,  and 
which  deserves  the  honor  of  a  reimpression : 

A  Personal  Narrative  of  the  Voyages  of 
Columbus  to  America,  from  a  Manuscript 
recently  discovered  in  Spain.  Translated 
from  the  Spanish  [by  the  late  Samuel 
Kettell,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  learned 
historian  of  Spanish  Literature]. 

Boston,  8vo,  1827,  pp.  303. 

As  to  Bernaldez'  Historia  de  los  Reyes 
Catolicos,  it  has  been  printed.  We  have  a 
copy  before  us,  which  bears  the  imprint  of 
"Granada,  Imprenta  y  iibreria  de  D.  Jose 
Maria  Zamora,  1856,"  2  vols.  410  (edited 


UNIVERSITY 


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•22  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

^*    COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


lorn:  cui  etas  nfa  multu  tiebet:  tre  Jnfulis  int»ie 
fupta  (Sangetn  ||  nuper  muentis. 


by  Miguel  Lafuente  y  Alcantara)  5  but  it  *  jfnglicii  Epistle  concerning  the  islands 
does  not  "conserve  en  partie,"  or  at  all,  newly  discovered.  Printed  at  Paris  in  the 
the  Journal.  Champ-Gaillard. 


Eibliotheca   Americana.  23 

tras  octauo  antea  menfe  aullfpicijs  r  ere  imiictiffimt  1493 
J^rttantri  l^tfpaniarum  l&cgis  tnittug||fuerat:  aft 
magnified  trw  Mapfjaeiem  g>anxis  :  eiuf&e  ferenik 
fill  mi  i&egte  Eefaurartu  mitta:  qua  noinlte  ac 
Ifatug  bit  Eliatoer  litre  <£ofco  at  f^ifpano  itreomate 
in  lattnii  conuertit:  tereto  fcl's  ||  iftlaij. 
Elezatrri.  bi.  Etmo  primo :  | 


*>•-*  Quarto,  sine  anno,  thirty-nine  lines  in  a  full  page.  On  the 
verso  of  the  title,  woodcut  representing  the  angel  appearing  to 
the  shepherds.  The  subscription  at  the  end  of  No.  5,  viz.: 

(ftijtiftoforug  (Kolom  ©eeane  elaftte  ^refeetus, 

is   omitted   in   this.      In   other   respects    it    is    precisely   like 
No.  5. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.     The  other  two  copies  known 
are  in  the  Bodleian1  and  Gottingen  University  libraries8.) 

"  Guyot-Marchant  qui  demeurait  au  Champ-Gaillard,  grand  hotel 
de  Navarre,  avait  choisi  pour  marque  les  deux  notes  sol,  la,  au  bas  de 
desquelles  etaient  les  initiales  G.  M. ;  puis  la  foi  represented  par 
deux  mains  jointes,  pour  faire  allusion  a  ces  paroles  :  Sola  fides  suffi- 
fit,  tirees  de  1'hymne  Pange  Lingua" 

(TAILLANDIER*.) 

Direct  references  :  (  STEVENS,  American  Bibliographer,  page  66,  for  a  well-executed  fac 
simile  of  the  woodcut  on  the  reverse  of  the  title,  which  is  also 
given  in  Appendix  to  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  with  a  description,  pages 
xlvii-xlviii ;  letter  F,  and 

Notes  on  Columbus,  page  123,  also  under  the  letter  F. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  617. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  164. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  228,  for  this  or  for  No.  5. 


1  Catalogue   of  Mr.    Doucc's    Collection,  lections   of  the   monastic   orders   in    Italy 

page  70.  contain  not  only  valuable  manuscripts,  but 

8  This  closes  the  series  of  the  separate  printed  books  of  the  utmost  rarity  and  im- 

editions  known  to  exist  of  Cosco's  version  portance  to  the  student  of  American  his- 

of  the   Letter    of  Columbus  to    Sanchez,  tory  ;  and  a  printed  Spanish  original  of  the 

Some   others   may  yet  come    to   light,    as  Letter  perhaps  still  lies  concealed  in  their 

none   of  the   great    Italian   libraries    have  unexplored  archives. 

ever    been    thoroughly    searched    to    that  3  Resume  historique    in    Memoires    de   la 

effect.      We  are  of  opinion  that  the  col-  Sociite  des  Anti/juaires,  Vol,  xin. 


24  Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1493.  7-     COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER) 

=====  aureig  plater  tre  la  gran*  ||  bictoria  que  n!ro  fenor  me 
l)a  trairo  en  mibgaie  ||  bog  efcriuo  efta  por  la  ql  fafc= 
tegs  como  e  .trrnj  lltriag  pafe  alas  Jntrtag  cola  ar= 
matra  que  lofillu  ||  ftrufimog  Keg  r  regttanfosi  fe= 
noteis  me  trieton||trontreso  falle  mug  mucijas  Jflas 
potlatras  con  gete  fgn||numero.  s  tiellag  totras  je 
eomatro  pofeffto  pot  fug  altejasllnmpregon  g  batieta 
real  eftetiitia  g  no  me  fue  eotratiieljo  :  || 

The  above  gives  the  first  eight  lines  of  the  plaquette  ,•  the  following 
the  last  three: 

lEfta  cartaemtto  <£olon  a  lefctiuano  33eracion|| 
trelag  JJTas  ftallatrag  en  lag  Jntriag,  <£ontenftra||a 
otra2BefugEltefag.il 

*.,,*  Sm.  410,  without  title,  colophon,  date  or  printer's  name  ;  four 
leaves,  thirty-two  lines  in  a  full  page.  Water-mark  :  an  open 
hand  with  a  kind  of  small  flower  over  the  third  finger. 

(Ambrosian  Library.) 

The  preceding  six  numbers  represent  the  separate 
editions  known  of  the  Latin  translation  of  the  letter 
addressed  by  Columbus  to  Raphael  Sanchez  on  his 
return  in  1493  ;  but,  as  we  have  observed,  the  great 
navigator  wrote  immediately  afterward,  and  sent  at  the 
same  time  another  letter  directed  to  Luiz  de  Santangel, 
the  "  Escribano  de  Racion,"  or  Steward  of  the  House 
hold  of  Aragon,  to  whose  exertions  he  was  mainly  in 
debted  for  the  approval  of  the  project  by  Isabella,  and 
who  had  himself  supplied  either  out  of  his  private  purse 
a  portion  of  the  expenses  of  the  expedition  (Eden\  Ferd. 
Columbus,  Herrera,  Munoz),  or  the  whole  from  the  Ara- 
gonese  revenues  deposited  in  his  hands  (Prescottz).  The 
Spanish  text  of  the  letter  to  Santangel  had  been  made 

1  De    nouo   orbc  ;    London,   410,    i6izj          2  Ferdinand   and  Isabella,   Vol.  u,  page 
Preamble.  128. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  25 

known  through  Navarrete3,  who  possessed  a  transcript  14.03. 
from  the  original,  which  in  1818  was  still  deposited, 
among  the  archives  at  Simancas.  It  was  not  known 
then,  or  even  suspected,  that  this  important  document 
had  been  printed  before.  In  1852  the  Baron  Pietro 
Custodi,  the  learned  continuator  of  Verri's  Storia  di  Mi- 
lanoy  died,  bequeathing  to  the  Ambrosian  library  his  own 
private  collection.  This  valuable  library  contained  a 
plaquette,  heretofore  undescribed,  which  was  supposed 
to  be,  even  by  the  erudite  Prof.  Longhena,  the  original 
Spanish  text  of  the  letter  to  Sanchez,  known  now  only 
through  the  miserable  Latin  version  of  Aliander  de 
Cosco.  This  plaquette,  however,  was  the  letter  ad 
dressed  to  Santangel,  giving  a  text  very  similar  to  that 
already  published  by  Navarrete,  but  containing  some 
variations  of  a  curious  character  as  regards  dates  and 
names.  For  instance,  we  find  "en  xxx  dias  pase  a  las 
Indias,"  whilst  the  Navarrete  codex  gives  "en  veinte 
dias,"  both  of  which  numbers  are  erroneous,  as  we 
know  from  the  paraphrase  of  the  journal  made  by  Las 
Casas4,  that  Columbus  reached  the  Western  lands  in 
"  setenta  y  un  dias."  At  the  end  we  find  :  "  Esta  carta 
embio  Colon  a  lescriuano  Deracion  de  las  Islas  halladas 
en  las  Indias,  Contenida  a  otra  Desus  Altezas,"  instead 
of  Navarrete's  rendering :  "  Esta  carta  envio  Colon  al 
Escribano  de  Racion  de  las  islas  halladas  en  las  Indias 
e  [en  ?]  otra  de  sus  Altezas,"  which  does  not  make 
sense,  whilst  the  Ambrosian  text  indicates  that  the  San 
tangel  letter  was  written  subsequently  to  the  Sanchez, 
as  it  was  enclosed  within  the  latter. 

This  rarissime  plaquette  is  printed  in  a  kind  of  semi- 
gothic  type,  of  the  roughest  character,  resembling  none 
of  the  incunabula  which  we  have  been  able  to  examine. 
The  fact  alone  that  the  text  is  in  the  Spanish  language 
authorizes  the  belief  that  it  was  printed  in  Spain.  The 
printers  of  the  fifteenth  century  were  not  accustomed 

1  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  pages  167-75.  4  Colcccion,  pages  1-166. 


a  6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

14.93.  to  Pr*nt  works  in  languages  different  from  that  of  the 
-.  country  in  which  they  lived.  For  instance,  Rome  was 
a  great  centre  and  mart  for  typographical  productions, 
and  the  number  of  books  which  were  published  in  that 
city  from  the  time  when  Sweynheim  and  Pannartz  re 
moved  from  the  monastery  of  Subbiaco  (1467)  to  com 
mence  printing  in  Rome,  to  the  last  book  printed  by 
Eucharius  Silber  in  1509,  is  considerable,  yet  Audif- 
fredi's  masterly  Catalogus  historico-criticus  Romanorum 
editionum  S<eculi  XV  does  not  contain  a  single  work, 
printed  in  any  other  language  than  Latin  or  Italian. 
Then  why  print  abroad  a  small  pamphlet  in  Spanish  ? 
The  skill  of  the  Spanish  printers  was  quite  adequate  to 
a  work  of  that  description.  The  only  Spanish  incuna 
bula  which  we  have  been  permitted  to  examine  (Ortiz' 
Tratados,  No.  10)  is  really  a  beautiful  specimen  of  the 
typographical  art.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is  evident, 
from  the  appearance  of  the  plaquette,  that  it  was  issued 
to  answer  the  wants  of  the  moment,  and  in  an  off-hand 
manner.  For,  as  Humboldt  justly  remarks5,  such  were 
"I'etatet  la  voie  des  communications  litteraires  rela 
tives  aux  evenements  les  plus  graves  dans  Tespace  de 
quinze  on  vingt  ans  anterieurs  a  la  mort  de  Vespuce," 
that  the  only  means  employed  to  propagate  important 
news  "  etaient  des  lettres  ou  de  petites  notes  manu- 
scrites  rapidement  multipliers  par  des  copies,  quelque- 
fois  imprimees,  le  plus  souvent  sans  indication  de  la 
source  d'ou  elles  etaient  tirees." 

But  where  in  Spain  and  by  whom  ?  Let  the  fortu 
nate  bibliophiles  who  possess  books  printed  by  Posa, 
Gumiel,  or  Moros  of  Barcelona,  Johannes  of  Burgos, 
Ungut  and  Stanislaus  Polonus  of  Seville,  or  de  Villa 
of  Valencia,  decide  the  question.  With  only  one  Span 
ish  incunabula,  and  that  three  hundred  miles  away,  we 
consider  the  undertaking  impracticable. 

We  were  in  hopes  that  the  water-mark  might  prove  a 

8  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  page  71. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  17 

guide.  True  it  is  that  the  open  hand,  with  something  1493. 
resembling  a  stalk  and  leaf  or  flower  over  the  third  finger  . — . 
— the  usual  symbol  of  faith  given  or  kept6 — which  is 
rather  conspicuous  in  the  plaquette  before  us,  is  also  to 
be  found  within  the  woof  or  warp  of  the  paper  used  by 
Cromberger  of  Seville  in  his  edition  of  Enciso's  Suma 
de  Geographia  (1519),  and  of  Oviedo's  Historia  General 
(1535),  which,  if  the  mark  had  been  exclusively  used 
by  Cromberger,  would  locate  the  plaquette  at  Seville 
between  the  years  1511  and  I5467;  but  we  regret  to 
say  that,  in  this  instance,  the  water-mark  cannot  be 
relied  on.  Not  only  do  we  find  an  identical  one  in 
many  of  the  Caxtons8,  but  it  is  quite  frequent  in 
Netherland  manuscripts  which  bear  dates  extending 
from  1445  to  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century9. 

The  text  of  the  Ambrosian  plaquette  was  first  pub 
lished  three  years  ago10.  It  is  also  in  two  late  Amer 
ican  publications".  The  Marquis  D'Adda  has  lately 
reproduced  the  entire  letter  in  fac-simile12. 

Direct  references  :  (  lo  Lett.  Autogr.  di  Cristof.  Colombo ;  Milan,  iSmo,  1863,  pp.  72-85. 

Historical  Magazine,  New  York,  for  September,  1864. 
I    1Q  Notes  on  Columbus;  New  York,  fol.,  1^65,  pages  89-100.     Let 
ters   of  Columbus  describing  his  first   -voyage   to   the    Western 
Hemisphere;  New  York,  410,  1865,  pages  1-5. 

*  MONTFAUCON  ;  apud  SOTHEBY.  the    libraries    which    had    been    scattered 

7  Which   are  the  years  between  which  among    the    Neapolitan    convents    before 
the  first  decade  of  Peter  Martyr  and  the  they  were   suppressed  in  1807,  to  explore 
Onzeno  de  Amadis  were  printed  at  Seville  their   numerous  and    undisturbed   alcoves, 
by  Jacobus  Crumberger,  Corumberger,   or  for  the  purpose  of  exhuming  bibliograph- 
Kromberger — the  latter  work  by  his  sue-  ical    treasures,    which,  in    all    probability, 
cessors  a  few  years  after  his  death.  are  lost  to  them  as  well   as  to  the  outside 

8  Viz.  :    Description  of  Britain,  n.  d.  ;  world.      Fossi's  and  Audiffredi's  catalogues 
Directortum  Sacerdotum,  n.  d.  ;    Festi-valis  leave  us  but  little  hope  of  finding  Colum- 
Liber,  1483;    Knyght  of  the  Toure,  1483.  bian    incunabula    either    in    the    Maglia- 
See  SOTHEBY,  Principia  Typographia ;  Lon-  bee  hi  or  Cas'anata  ;  and  the  fact  that  Mo- 
don,  fol.,  1858,  Vol.  in,  plate  QB.  relli  was  the  librarian  of  the  Saint  Marc 

9  The  discovery  of  that  remarkable  pla-  at  Venice   is   also   a   sure   indication    that 
quette  should  prompt  the  librarians  of  the  very    little    in    the    way    of    undescribed 
Genoa  University  library,  which  contains  works  relating  to  America  is  likely  to  be 
forty-five  thousand  volumes,  gathered  ex-  discovered  in  that  curious   library,  which 
clusively  from  the  Ligurian  cloisters,  and  was  founded  by  Petrarch. 

the   keepers   of   the   Bourbon  Museum   at          n  Letter  a  in  lingua  Spagnuola  d.  d.  Cm- 
Naples,  who  are  now  the  custodians  of  all     toforo  Colombo ;   Milan,  410,  1866. 


28  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  8.  DATI  (GIULIANO)-(L  <®uefta  t  la  ^ftotla  trella 
---  inuentioe  trelle  triefe  Stole  tri  OTannaria  in  Jn  || 
triane  eztracte  truna  IBpiftola  tri  (tfijriftofano  colons 
to  r  per  metter  (Bin  ||  liano  29ati  tratructa  tre  latino 
in  uertt  ulgari  a  lautre  e  gloria  trella  cele  ||  fttale 
corte  r  aeonfolatione  trella  (Eijriftiana  religioe  r 
apregfjiera  trel  ma  ||  gnifico  ^aualier  mtfer  (Biouan^ 
filippo  Belignamtne  tromefttco  familia  1  1  re  tiello 
faeratifftmo  Ke  fit  Spagna  (Kijrifttaniffimo  a  tri. 
troetotre.  ||  iW.ceceto^tii.  ||* 

In  fine  : 

trictuis  jFlorentinug. 


*+*  410,  sine  loco  (Florence),  four  unnumbered  leaves  in  a  com 
plete  copy,  two  columns  in  a  page,  text  in  black  letter.  The 
present  copy,  which  is  the  only  one  known,  lacks  the  second 
and  third  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

Giuliano  Dati  was  born  at  Florence  in  1445,  and  died 
Bishop  of  St.  Leone,  in  Calabria1,  in  1524.  "  D'antico 
Langue,  insigne  Teologo,  Canonista  famoso,"  &c.2,  au 
thor  of  several  poems',  which  are  among  the  rarest  of 
bibliographical  curiosities.  The  present  is  one  of  them. 

*  Anglice  :  This   is  the  history  of  the  the   most  sacred    and   Christian    King   of 

discovery  of  the  Canary  [?]  islands  in  the  Spain,  October  25th,   1493.     John,   alias 

Indies  ;  extracted  from  a  letter  of  Christo-  the  Florentine. 

fano   Colombo,   and    translated   from   the  '  UGHELLI,  Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  ix,  p.  722. 

Latin  into  the  common  language,  by  Mr.  a  NEGRI,   Istoria  degli   Scritt.   Florent.  ; 

Juliana  Dati,  for  the  praise  and  glory  of  Ferrara,  fol.,  1722,  p.  305.     MELZI,  Bib- 

the  celestial  court,  and  for  the  consolation  liografia   dei   romanzi  e  poem!  c.  italiani  ; 

of  the  Christian  religion,  and  at  the  re-  Milan,  8vo,  1838,  p.  308. 

quest  of  the  magnificent  Chevalier  John  3  POCCIANTJ,    Catal.  Script.   Florentini  ; 

Philip  Delignamine,f  private  secretary  of  Florence,  410,   1589,  p.  103.     HAIN,  Re- 

pertorium,    No.     5963,    so.       AUDIFFREDI. 

t     Messere  Gio.  Fihppo  dal  Legname   Cavalier      rat»ln<r    ,//,V     T)^  V 

Messineso,  Medico  di  Sixto  iv."-CancelIieri,  Dh-      Lata/0S-  edlt-  Roman.      Sac.   XV  ;   pp.  322, 
art.    "  Correcteur  et  successeur  de  Ulrich  Hahn,      3Z7)    S2^,    329,    421,    for    description    of 
i   Rome  de  1479  »  1481."—  Brunei,  Diction,  de     other  poems  by  DATI 
tUblltgrafnii  Catholique,  p.  894. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  29 

It  is  not  a  translation  of  the  first  letter  of  Columbus,     1493' 
but  only  an  ottava  rima  paraphrase,  in  sixty-eight  stan-  -___.—_ 
zas,  the  first  fourteen  of  which  contain  a  fulsome  and 
vapid  preamble,  praising,  among  others,  the  infamous 
Alexander  Borgia.    The  following  is  a  fair  sample  of  the 
style  of  that  mitred  sycophant  : 


cji  potetti  leggere  nel  futtiro 
twno  &le*atn:o  magno  papa  toto 

trella  fua  creatione  ilmotro  puro 
grato  a  ctafcuo  anettu  mat  molefto, 

&  tolprimanno  fuo  il  magno  mum 
dje  no  glipuo  nettuno  etter  infefto 

toto  alexatrro  pappatorgia  ttpano 

iufto  nei  gtutrtcare  &  tucto  ijumano.f 

The  reader  will  find  in  our  Additions  (infra  page  461) 
a  description  of  another  edition,  dated  1495,  which  is 
preserved  in  the  Trivulzio  Library  at  Milan. 


Direct  references  :  (  TIRABOSCHI,  Storia  della  Letteratura  Italianaj  Florence,  8vo,  1809, 

Vol.  vi,  page  871. 
I    BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  164. 

Costabili  Catalogue;   Paris  or  Bologna,  1858,  page  208,  No.  2365. 
Appendix,  to  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  page  lii. 

Notes  on  Columbus,  pages  240-6,  for  text  and  translation  of  the  first 
fourteen  stanzas. 


f  Anglice  :  teenth  stanza,  in   a  kind  of  doggerel,  of 

«  But   in   the   future  men  shall   read    the  which  the  following  is  a  version  : 

fame  "  Back   to   my   theme,   O    Listener,  turn 

Of  Alexander,  Sixth  of  that  great  name  ;  with  me 

Of  his  election,  pure  of  every  guile,  And  hear  of  islands  all  unknown  to  thee  ! 

Hailed    by  the    world    with  an    approving  Islands  whereof  the  grand  discovery 

smjje  Chanced  in  this  year  of  fourteen  ninety- 
Walled  about  from  his  first  papal  year  three, 

With  general  love  and  reverential  fear ;  One  Christopher  Colombo,  whose  resort 

Benign  to  all,  pope,  Borgia,  Son  of  Spain,  Was  ever  in  the  King  Fernando's  Court, 

In  judgment  righteous,  and  in  heart  hu-  Bent  himself  still  to  rouse  and  stimulate 

mane  ["  The   King    to   swell    the    borders    of  his 

State." 

Columbus    is   introduced    in    the    four-          (For  the  text,  see  infra,  p.  31.) 


-jo  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Q.     DATI  (GIULIANO)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf; 

ClaletteradellifolecIieliatrouatonuouamcnteilRediTpagna. 


In  fine  : 


C  Finita  laftoria  della  iuetione  del  ||  le 
nououe  ifole  di  canaria  idiane  trac  ||  te  duna 
piftola  dixjpofano  colobo  &||p  meffer  Giu- 
liano  dati  trado&a  di  la||tino  i  uerfi  uul- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  31 

gari  allaude  della  ce||leftiale  corte  &  aeon-  1493 
folatione  della  ||  chriftiana  religione  &  ap- 
ghiera  del  ||  magnifico  caualiere  meiTer  Gi- 
oua-  ||  filippo  del  ignamine  domeftico  fa-  || 
miliare  dello  illuftriffimo  Re  difpa  ||  gna  xpi- 
aniffimo  a  di.  xxvi.  do6to-  ||  bre.  14.93.  II 
Florentie.  || 

*„,*  410,  four  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title,  upon  the 
verso  of  which  the  text  commences  in  two  columns ;  ten  full 
stanzas  on  each  page,  none  of  which  are  broken  as  in  No.  8. 
Text  in  Roman.  Only  copy  known.  There  are  material 
differences  between  this  edition  and  the  above.  Here,  we 
find  a  woodcut,  the  text  is  in  Roman,  the  spelling  is  different, 
and  the  text,  even,  presents  variations.  Yet  according  to  the 
colophon,  only  one  day  elapsed  between  the  publication  of 
Nos.  8  and  9. 

(British  Museum.) 

The  following  is  the  stanza  in   which  Columbus  is 
first  introduced : 

Hor  vo  tornar  almio  primo  tra&ato 
dellifole  trovate  incognite  a  te 
in  qfto  anno  prefente  qfto  e  ftato 
nel  millequatrocento  novatrate, 
uno  che  xpofan  colobo  chiamato, 
che  e  ftato  in  corte  der  prefe&o  Re 
ha  molte  volte  quefta  ftimolato, 
el  Re  ch'cerchi  acrefcere  il  fuo  ftato. 


Direct  references:  f  MAJOR,  Select  Letters,  pages  Ixxiii-xc,  for  the  text. 

-|    QOADRIO,   Delia   storia  e  d.    ragioni  fogn't  poesi  ;    Bologna,   410, 

1739-52,  Vol.  iv,  page  49,  and,  after  him, 

CANCELLIERI,  Dissertation!,  page  153,  gives  the  date  of  MCDLXXXXV. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  165. 
GRAESSK,  Vol.  iv,  page  183. 
Libri  Catalogue,  1847,  No.  1253. 
Appendix  to  New  York  Syllacio,  pages  lii-lv. 


3/2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I4Q7.  J°*     ORTIZ  (ALONSO}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 


CUOHp 0  W liv  "  regJIEratairo  confolatorio 
ala  princefa  tre  Portugal.  ||  Stem  bna  oracion 
regeg  en  latin  g  en  romance  II  Stem  *rog  cartag 
tajerag  a  log  regeg.  bna  que  emMo  II  la  cifctratr  la 
otra  el  cafciltro  irela  gglefta  tre  toletro  II  &ratatro  con= 
tra  la  carta  trel  protfjonotario  ire  lucena.H* 

In  fine  : 

jfue  imprimftro  enla  II  mug  nofcle  r  mug  leal  cfo= 
irair  tre  ge  II  uilla,  por  treg  ^llemaneg  copanerog.  || 
<$nel  ano  trel  Mor,  JE.cccc.xciij.  || 

*+*  Folio,  one  hundred  numbered  leaves,  printed  in  black  letter 
on  two  columns,  ending  with  the  printer's  mark  of  Johannes 
Pegnizer,  Magnus,  and  Thomas,  the  three  Germans  above 
mentioned,  viz.  :  an  oblong  square  with  dark  ground,  and 
a  white  circle  containing  the  letter  T  and  the  word  ALE- 
MANES. 

(Private  Library,  Boston.) 

This  collection  of  orations,  treatises,  and  epistles, 
from  a  canon  of  Toledo  not  less  famous  for  his  big 
otry  than  for  his  rhetoric1,  contains  one  of  the  earliest 
allusions1  to  the  rediscovery  of  the  Western  hemisphere 

*  Anglice  :    The    treatises    of    Doctor  one  by  the  city,  the  other  by  the  Chapter 

Alonzo   Ortis.  of  the  church  of  Toledo. 

Treatise    concerning    the    wound    [in-  Treatise   against  the  letter  of  the  pro- 

flicted]    on    the   King   [by  an  assassin  at  thonotary  De  Lucena. 

Barcelona,  Dec.  yth,  1492].  Printed  in  the  very  noble  and  faithful 

Treatise  to  comfort  the  Princess  of  Por-  city  of  Seville,  by  three  Germans  in  part- 

tugal.  nership.     In  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1493. 

Also,  an  oration  [addressed]  to  the  So-  *  TICKNOR,  History  of  Spanish  Litera- 

vereigns,  in  Latin,  and  in  the  vernacular  ture,  Vol.  i,  p.  379. 

language.  a  NAVARRKTS,    Coleccion,    Introduction, 

Also,  two  epistles  sent  to  the  Sovereigns,  p.  LI,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  33 

by  Columbus  in  1492.     It  is  to  be  found  on  the  verso    I2J-931 
of  folio  XLIII,  in  the  oration  addressed  to  Ferdinand  and 
Isabella  after  the  fall  of  Granada  ;  and  is  as  follows  : 


fon  trignamen-  II  te  en  bofotros  pncipes 
rtofos  pot  II  tan  feliees  ijatanas  los  oios  fl  totiosll 
los  mortalles  entreretyatros  eo  Irtgno  II  merefcimiento  : 
porq  no  ag  gente  tan  II  tofcara  aun  cj[  fea  enlas  intriag 
remollta.  ijgafce  bfos  tan  profperos  benetllmtetos 
fea  sgnorante:  aun  5  parefca||elos  fines  folos  Ul 
oeitrete  l^fpana  co  ||  b!as  bictoriag  tefplantrefcer,  Ota 
^losllfines  trela  tierra  Ija  falitro  tal  fonftro 
fortaleia  5  f)a  potritro  ferir  las  o-||rejas  t»e 
tiuientes:  ponien-lltro  panot  alos  moratrores 


tre  totja  la  ttetra/'t 

Direct  references  :  f  ANTONIO,  Bibliotheca  Hisfan.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  page  39. 
4.  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  iv,  page  337. 

I  CABALLERO,  De  Prima  Typogr.  Hispan.,  Rome,  410,  1793,  page  45- 
MENDEZ,  Typogr.  Espaflo/a,  Vol.  i,  page  194. 
MAIN,  Repertorium,  Vol.  n,  Part  i,  No.  12109. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  2635. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  243. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  56. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  page  155. 


I  I.    CARVAJAL  (BERNARDIN)- 

ftanda  folenni  obedientia  San-||6tiffimo. 
D.  N.  Alexandro  Papae  vi  ex  parte  Chri-|| 
ftianiffimorum.  domino^  Fernandi  &  He- 
lifabe  (fee)  Re  ||  gis  &  Reginae  Hifpanias  : 

•j-  Anglice :  Behold  !  the  eyes  of  all  mor-  tories  seem  to  shine  in  the  remotest  limits 
tals  are  justly  fixed  upon  you  with  merited  of  the  Occident  of  Spain,  as  from  the  ex- 
approbation,  O  Glorious  Princes  !  for  there  tremities  of  the  world  such  an  echo  of 
is  no  nation  ever  so  barbarous,  even  in  the  your  power  has  arisen  that  it  could  reach 
distant  Indies,  that  is  not  aware  of  your  the  ears  of  all  the  living,  striking  terror 
triumphs,  so  prosperous,  although  your  vie-  among  the  inhabitants  of  the  whole  earth! 


34  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

r493»  habita  Romae  inconfifto||  rio  publico  per. 
=  R.  Patrem  dnm  Bernardinum  Car-||uaial 
Epm  Carthaginen.  die  Mercurii.  xix.  lunii 
Sa||lutis  Chriftian^.  M.cccc.xciii.  Pontifi- 
catus  eiufdem||D.  Alexandri  Anno  Primo. 
In  qua  fuere  quattuor  ce||lebres  Oratores: 
Nobiliffimus  dns  Didacus  Luppi||de  Faro 
Galleciae  uicerex.  R.  D.  Gundiffaluus  Fer-|| 
nadi  Heredia  Archiepifcopus  Tarraconen. 
Idem.  D.||Bernardinus  Caruaial  Epus  Car 
thaginen.  D.  lohan lines  Methina  Epifcopus 
Pacenfis.H 

C  Vitulus  &  Leo  fimul  morabuntur:   & 
puer  paruu||lus  minabit  eos.     Efayae.  xi*. 

*£*  Sm.  410,  for  size ;  signatures  :  a,  ai,  aii,  aiii,  aiiii,  four  blanks  ; 
making  eight  unnumbered  leaves.  Sine  anno  aut  loco  (Panzer 
says,1  after  Audiffredi1  and  Denis,8  "  Besicken  vel  Silberi."} 
Hain  ascribes  it  to  Plannck.4  No  water-mark. 

(Private  Libr.  New  York  and  Washington  city.) 

Bernardin  de  Carvajal,  a  Spanish  Cardinal  and  states 
man5,  born  at  Palencia  about   1456,  died  in  1522  (Mo- 

*  Angllce  :    A   Sermon  on   the  solemn  licia  ;    the  Rev.  Gonzalvo  Ferdinand    de 

pledge  of  obedience  from  the  Most  Chris-  Heredia,    Archbishop   of  Tarragona,    the 

tian   Sovereigns    Ferdinand    and    Isabella,  same  Lord   Bernardin  Carvajal,  Bishop  of 

King  and  Queen  of  the  Spains,  to  our  Most  Carthagena,  and  John  Methina,  Bishop  of 

Holy  Lord  the  Pope  Alexander  VI ;   de-  Badajoz.     The  calf  and  the  lion  will  lay 

livered    at   Rome,   in   a   public    assembly,  together,    and    a    small   child    will   watch 

by    the  Reverend    Father,    Lord    Bernar-  them.     ISAIAH,  xi. 

din   Carvajal,   Bishop   of  Carthagena,   on  1  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  n,  page  506. 

Wednesday,  June   I9th,  A.  D.   1493,  and  2  Catal.  Romanes  edition.   Stfc.  xv,  page 

of  the  Pontificate  of  the  same  Lord  Alex-  315. 

ander,  the   first  year;    being  present   four  3  Sufplementa  ann.  tyf>.,  Part  n,  page  530. 

celebrated  orators,  the  very  noble  Lord  Di-  4  Rcfertorium,  No.  4545. 

dacus  Luppi  de  Faro,  Vice-Roy  of  Gal-  B  GUICCIARDINJ,  Istoria  £  Italia ;    Pisa, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  35 

rerf]  or  1523  (Antonio").  It  was  while  filling  the  office  1493 
of  Spanish  Embassador  to  the  Court  of  Rome  that  he 
delivered  the  above  oration8,  which  contains  one  of  the 
earliest  allusions9  to  the  rediscovery  of  the  New  World. 
Several  of  Peter  Martyr  d'Anghiera's  letters  are  ad 
dressed  to  him.  He  was  excommunicated  by  Pope 
Julius  II.  The  copy  before  us  formerly  belonged  to 
the  Duke  of  Sussex,  and  was  purchased  at  an  auction 
sale  in  New  York. 

The  passage  begins  at  the  sixteenth  line  of  the  verso 
of  the  sixth  leaf,  and  is  as  follows : 

"  .  .  .  .  fubegit  quocp  fub  eis  xps  fortuna- 
tas  infulas.  qua$  iertilitate  mirabile  efTe 
conftat.  Ofidit  8c  nup  alias  incognitas  ver- 
fus  Indos  que  maxime  ac  plene  oibQmun- 
di  pcioiis  existimant :  &  xpo  p  regies  iter- 
nuntios  brevi  pariturae  credunt."J 


Direct  references  :  \  PAXZU,  Annalet  Tfpvgr.,  Vol.  n,  page  506. 

-I  ACDITFBIDI,  Catai.  R^man*  edition.     &fc.  XT,  page  315. 
I  DESIS,  Supplementa  ann.  tfpegr.,  Part  n,  page  530. 
HAIX,  Repertorium,  No.  4545. 
LAIKE,  Specim.  Hist.  Typegr.,  page  275. 
Bibliztbeta  Grenvilliana. 
CAXctLLiru,  Disserttrz.,  page  189. 
Notei  on  Columbia^  page  170. 


STO,  1819  ;  Vol.  ill,  page  177.    MAX  IAS  A,  a«,r.  de"  Cardinal};  Rome,  410,  1792,  VoL 

Hi  atria    Gem.  de  Etfafa ;   Madrid,  fbL,  m,  page  253.] 

1678,  VoL  n,  page  183.  "  NAT/^ETTZ,  CcIecci?a,Vol.  L,  Introd., 

Z.     ------  r   .•":     -  .  "•"    .     ::.:._•-    :  - :  :  ;  . •-     .:.: 

1  Biblittketa    Hispania    Nova,    Vol.   i,  J  Anglict  :    And    Christ    placed   under 

page  21 5.  their  [Ferdinand  and  Isabella's]  rule  the 

CA>CELLII*I    quotes,    in    connection  Fortunate  [Canary]  «laiuiff  the  fertility  of 

with  that  Embassy  of  Obedience  :  CIAC-  which  has  been  ascertained  to  be  wonder- 

cosirs   \V~tt4C  et  res  gat*  pontif.  et  cardi-  ful.      And    he  has  lately  disclosed  some 

u*i ;  Rome,  4  vols.  fol.,  1677,  Vol.  ni,  other  unknown  ones   towards  the   Indies 

page  170].  PALAZZI,  or   PALATICS  [either  which  may  be  considered  among  the  most 

his  Getta  Penti/ieum,  Venice,  fol.  1687,  or  precious   things    on    earth;   and   it  is  be- 

his  Fasti  Cardinalium,  Venice,  foL,  1703,  lieved   that  they  will   be  gained  over  to 

Vol.  n,  page  470].     CAKOXIXA  [Mem-sric  Christ  by  the  emissaries  of  the  King. 


3  6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  12.    DE  ALMEIDA    (FERDINAND)— && 

vi.  Pont.  Max.  FERD  :  DE  ||  ALMEIDA  electi 
Eccl'ie  Septifi:  &  Serenifs:||  lo.  II.  Regis 
Portugallie  oratoris  Oratio.|| 

(in  4°.  par.} 

Primo  folio  habetur  Epistola  dedic.  Auctoris  ad  Joannem  II.  Folia 
in  summa  sunt  IV.,  &  character  est  Rom.  elegans  Besicken.  Extat 
in  Biblioth.  privata  SS.  D.  N.  PII  PP.  VI. 

(AUDFFREDI1.) 


The  present  seems  to  be  the  oration  delivered  on  the 
occasion  of  the  Embassy  of  Obedience  on  the  part  of 
Portugal.  This  Almeida  may  be  the  F.  Ferdinandus  de 
Almeida  mentioned  by  Antonio2.  At  all  events,  it  is 
concerning  this  No.  12,  as  well  as  No.  n,  that  Cancel- 
lieri  exclaims  :3 

"  Qual  contrasegno  di  gratitudine  potevano  mai  daire  que'  due 
Sovrani,  proporzionato  a  benefizio  si  grande  [/'.  e.,  the  re-discovery 
of  this  country]  compartito  ad  entrambi,  col  tratto  il  piu  magnanimo 
del  piu  generoso  disinteresse,  senza  essersi  pensato  da  Alessandro  VI, 
alia  minima  riserva,  o  Possesso  in  America,  per  la  S.  Sede,  benche 
egli  da  loro  stato  scelto  per  Giudice  di  si  gran  Controversia  ?  Ci  e 
rimasta  memoria  della  solenne  Qbbedienza,  prestatagli  in  pubblico 
Concistoro  da  Ferdinando  c? Almeida,  Ambasciadore  di  Giovanni  II, 
e  da  Bernardino  de  Carvajal,  a  nome  di  Ferdinando,  e  d'  Isa 
bella4." 


.    1  Catalog.  Romano;  edition.   S<ec.  xv,  page  as  the  umpire  in  that  great  controversy  ? 
315.  The  remembrance  has  been  preserved  of 
a  Bibliotheca    Hispania    Nova,    Vol.  i,  the  Solemn  Obedience  sworn  to  in  a  pub- 
page  367.  lie    Consistory    by    Ferdinand   d'Almeida, 

3  Dissertation!,  page  189.  Ambassador  of  John   II,   and   Bernardin 

4  Anglice  :    What   mark    of    gratitude  de    Carvajal    in    the    name   of  Ferdinand 
could    those    two    sovereigns    give    which  and    Isabella.       Cancellieri  cites  in   con- 
should  have  been  proportionate  to  the  great  nection    either   with  this  Portuguese  Em- 
benefits  divided  between  them   by  a  trait  bassy  :    No-vaes   vi,    876,  which  we  sup- 
of  the  most  magnanimous  and  liberal  dis-  pose     to     be    the    work    mentioned    by 
interestedness  ;    the    thought   even   never  Meusel    (Biblioth.    Histor.,    Vol.    v,    Part 
entering   Alexander  VI's  mind  to  reserve  u,   page   266),   under  the   title    of:    AN- 
the   least  possession   in  America  for    the  TONII  GONSALVI  DE  NOVAES  (Doctoris  iuris 
Holy-See,  although  they  had  selected  him  canonici    et    Examinatoris  synodalis  Epis- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  37 

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End  of  Colophon  on  verso  of  the  map  -which  follows  leaf  ccxcix  : 

&tr  in  II  tuitu  autem  r  preceg  prouitioru  ciuiu 
taltri  Sdjreger  II  r  gcfwftiani  fcamermatfter  ijunc 
litrum  trmninus  Entijo  II  niug  ^oterger  i%urem= 
terge  impreffit.  Etiijititig  tame  bi  II  tig  matfjematk 
cis  pmgentficp  arte  perttiffimis,  JHidjaele  ||  toolse= 
mutij  et  toiiijeimo  ^legtrenhjutf  .  (juaru  folerti  acu=|| 
ratiffimac^  animatruertioue  turn  ciuitatum  turn  iliuf^ 
ttium  II  birorum  figure  tnfette  funt  (^oufummatu 
autem  tiuotieci-  II  ma  menfis  Juiii.  Enno  faiutig  nte. 

I493-H 

*!(c*  Large  folio,  three  hundred  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto  ; 
leaves  CCLVIIII,  CCLX,  CCLXI,  blank  on  both  sides,  but  num 
bered.  These  blanks  were  left  for  the  purpose  of  annotations 
(see  verso  of  leaf  CCLVIII).  The  six  unnumbered  leaves,  con 
taining  de  Sarmacia  regione  Europe,  come,  in  this  copy,  im 
mediately  after  leaf  CCLXVI,  which  contains  the  following  sub 
scription  : 

(ftumpleto  in  famofiffima  i^utemtergenfi  urfce 
©peri  litre  fjgftorijs  etatum  muntri.  ac  fcefcriptione 
uririum.  fe-lllhc  imponitur  finig.  ^ollectum  ireui 
tempore  Euxilio  trocto  II  rig  Ijartmant  £>fbtfwl.  pa 

copatus    Elvensis)  Rela^ao    do    Bispado   de          *  Jlnglicl  :  Register  of  the  books  of  the 

El-vas,  e    de    todos   os    Prelados    que    a    te  chronicles  and  histories,  with   figures  and 

oseu  tempo  governarao  aquclla  Igreja.  Lis-  illustrations    from    the    beginning    of   the 

boa,  1635.  fol.  world. 


og  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

fieri  ptutt  Mltgentia.    &nno 

rhmentefimt)  nonagefimotercio.  trie  quarto  ||  menfte 


Two  thousand  two  hundred  and  fifty  woodcuts,  by  Pleydenwurff 
and  Wolgemuth  (Albert  Diirer's  master),  representing  portraits 
and  cities  of  a  fanciful  character.  Large  map  of  central  Europe 
filling  the  last  two  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


The  name  of  Martin  Behaim  is  so  closely  connected 
with  the  controversies  which  sprung  up  towards  the  end 
of  the  last  century  regarding  the  real  discoverer  of  the 
Western  World  and  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  that  it 
explains,  if  it  does  not  authorize,  the  insertion  of  Sche- 
del's  Chronicles  in  our  work.  The  claims  of  Behaim 
concerning  the  discovery  of  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  as 
set  forth  by  Postel1,  Chauveton2,  Metellus3,  Herrera4, 
Wurzelbau5,  Lochner6,  Schwarz7,  Moerl8,  Bielefeld9,  and 
Fuerer10;  or  even  to  the  Western  World  prior  to  Co 
lumbus,  as  asserted  by  Riccioli11,  Wagenseil12,  Wuelfer13, 
Omeis14,  Stuvenius15,  Doppelmaier16,  Cellarius17,  and  the 

1   Cosmograpbica   disciplina  ,•    Basel,   4to,  9  Progres  des  Allemands  dans  les  Sciences, 

1561;  Leyden,  I2mo,  16365  and  de  Uni-  &c. ;   Amsterd.,  I2mo,  1752. 

•versitate  liber  ^    Paris,    410,   1563,   1564;  10  Oratio  de  M.  Bebaimo,  apud  Museum 

Leyden,  241110,  1635.  Noricum. 

*  In  his  Latin  translation    of  Benzoni,  J1  Geographic    et    hydrogr.    reformats; 
Geneva,  8vo,   1578,   1581,   1586,   1600;  Bologna,  fol.,  1661. 

idem   in   the   French,  Geneva,    1579  and          ia  The  promise  made  by  Wagenseil,  as 

1589,  8vo,  copied  in  De  Bry's,  Part  iv,  mentioned     by    Leibnitz    (Duten's    edit., 

and  Hulsius,  Vol.  vi.  Vol.  vi,  page   261),  seems   to  have   been 

3  America,   si-ve   no-vus  orbis;    Cologne,  carried     out    in     his    Sacris     Parcntalibut 
fol.,  1600,  and  apud  Wagenseil,  Pera  libror.  B.    G.   F.   Behaimo  dicatis ;   Altdorf,   fol., 
iu-veni/ium  Synops  ;   Nuremb.,  8vo,  1695.  1682. 

4  Decadas  de  las  Indias ;    Madrid,  fol.,          13  De   Maioribus    Oceani    insulii ;     Nu- 
1728-30.     Decad.  u,  Chap.  19.  remb.,  8vo,  1691. 

6  Vranies  Nor:c<e  Basis  astron. — geogr. ;  14  Dissert,  de  claris  quibus  d.  Norimb  ; 

Nuremberg,  fol.,  1697.  Altdorf,  410,  1708. 

6  Commentat.    de    Ananasa  ;     Nuremb.,  16  Dissert,   historico-critico    de  -vero   no-vi 
410,  1716.  or  bis  invent  ;  Franckfort,  8vo,  1714. 

7  Dissert,  de  Columnis  Herculjs  ,•  Altdorf,  16  Histor.  Nachricht  -von  Nurnberg.  Ma- 
4to,  1749.  thcmat.i  Nuremb.,  fol.,  1730. 

*  Oratio  de  meritis  Norimb.  in  Geograph.,  17  Historia    uni-versalis  ;     lena,    izmo 
apud  Museum  Noricum  ;  Altdorf,  410, 1759.  1709. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  39 

ignorant  and  presumptuous  Otto18,  but  who  were  victo-    1493- 
riously   refuted  by  Tozen19,  von  Murr20,  Cladera21,  and  = 
Ghillany",  rest  on  a  map  of  the  world,  and  an  extremely 
curious  globe23,  manufactured  by  Behaim  himself,  toward 
the  year  1492  (both  of  which  are  still  in  the  possession 
of  his  descendants  in   Nuremberg)  ;    and  on  an  extract 
from  Schedel's  Chronicle,  which  is  as  follows : 
Verso  of  leaf  ccxc  : 

Ennte  no  pofterioriiws  b't  anno  trni.  1483.  io= 
ijanes  fctr's  portugalie  ux  altiffimi  bit  cortrte  certas 
galeas  oitws  atr  btctu  neceffariis  inftru.tit  eafqp  bltra 
colunas  ijerculis  atr  meritrie  berfus  etljiopia  inueftk 
gaturos  mint.  }9refent  aut  J)te  patronos  twos  Ja= 
coM  canti  portugalenfem  r  marttnu  toijemu  ijomine 
germanu  e.t  nurmberga  fupiorte  germanie  tre  tona 
toljemoru  famtlia  natu.  ijotem  intg  in  cognofcentro 
fitu  terte  peritiffimu  marifc^  pacientiffimu.  dluicp 
pijolomei  logitutriness  r  latitutrines  in  occitrente  atr 
bngue  experitneto.  iogeuacp  nauigatione  nouit.  ll^ij 
two  ftono  treoru  aufpicio  mare  meritrionale  fultantes 
a  littore  no  longe  euagantes  fupato  circulo  eqnoiiaii 
in  alteru  ortem  excepti  funt.  bM  ipis  ftantitu^  ori= 
ente  berta  bmtra  atr  meritrie  r  trextra  proicictat. 


18  Letter  to   Benj.  Franklin,  and  Me-  which  we  have  never  been  able  and  never 
moir   on    the  Detection  of  America,  in   the  expect  to  procure. 

Transact,    of  the    Americ.    Phil.  Society  ;  21  Iwvestigaciona    Historicas  ;     Madrid, 

Philadelphia,     410,     1786,    and     London,  410,  1794. 

1787.  2a  Gescbichte  dts  Seef.  M.  Behaim;   Nu- 

19  Der   ivahre   und  crste    Entdccker    der  remb.,  4to,  1853. 

neuen    Welt    (a   capital  work) ;    Goetting.,  23  Copies  of  the  map  and   globe   have 

8vo,  1761.  been  published  by  Doppelmaier,  De  Murr, 

20  Diflomatische    Gescbicbte    des    Portug.  Cladera,   Ghillany,  and   in   the  following 
Bcriihmten    Ritters   Martin   Behaims ;    Nu-  works : 

remb.,  8vo,   1778,  and   Histoire  Diploma-  Geographic   du    Moyen-Agc;    Bruxelles, 

tiquc  du    Cbevalier   Martin    Bebaim,  &c.  ;  8vo,    1852.       Les  Monuments   de   la    Geo- 

Strasb.,  8vo,  1802,  from  which  we  borrow  graphic;    Paris,   fol.,    1865,    plate   xv  for 

nearly  all  of  the  above  references  to  works  the  Map  of  the  World. 


4O  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  ^pettier?  igt?  iua  iniwftrta  aim  ortetn  ftacten?  no? 

===  ins  incognitu  r  multte  annte  a  nulite  $  tanuenfito 
licet  fruftra  temptatu.  IJeracta  aiit  Jjwot  nauiga? 
tione  bicefimo  toto  mcnfe  reuerfi  funt  portugalia 
piurilws  oft  calitriffimt  aeris  patentia  mortute.24 

This  passage,  according  to  GebauerV5  faithful  summing 
up,  amounts  simply  to  this,  that  the  King  of  Portugal, 
Juan  II,  sent,  in  1483,  James  Canus,  a  native  of  Por 
tugal,  and  Martin  Behaim  of  Nuremberg,  with  some 
galleys  to  Ethiopia;  that  they  went  to  the  Southern  Sea, 
near  the  coast,  and,  after  crossing  the  line,  reached  the 
New  World,  where,  when  they  happened  to  look  to 
wards  the  East,  their  shadow,  at  noon,  appeared  on  the 
right  ;  that  in  that  region  they  discovered  lands,  hereto 
fore  unknown,  which  had  not  been  searched  after  by  any 
people  for  many  years,  except  the  Genoese  \i.  £.,  An 
thony  and  Bartholomew  de  Nolle],  and  that  in  vain  ; 
finally,  that  after  a  navigation  of  twenty-six  months 
they  returned  to  Portugal  ;  and  in  proof  of  their  dis 
covery  brought  pepper  and  grana  paradisi  —  whatever 
that  is.26 

However  interesting  this  passage  may  be,  we  scarcely 
need  add  that  it  is  only  a  spurious  interpolation,  as  it 
is  written  in  a  different  hand  in  the  MS.  of  the  Latin 
text,  whilst  it  cannot  be  found  in  the  original  manuscript 
of  the  German  translation  of  the  Chronicle  (No.  14), 
both  of  which  are  still  preserved  at  Nuremberg.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  passage  on  recto  of  fol.  xini  : 

iSxtra  tres  ptes  orfc  :  pta  e  ps  trasocceanu  tte? 
riore  t  meritrie  5  for  arlmrit?  nol)'  incognita  z  :  I  cut? 
fmtltf  antipote  falwiofe  IjaMtare  tJtcuntur, 

shows  that  the  author  of  the  Chronicle,  whether  we  call 


24  That  passage  was  republished  in  ^NE-  25  Portugesischc  Geschichts  -von  den  a/tes- 
AS  SYLVIUS'  De  Europ<s  sub  Friderico  III  ten  Zeiten  ;  Leipzig,  8vo,  1759,  PaSe  IZ3- 
imfcrat.;  Strasburg,  folio,  1685  and  1702.  26  Amomum  Melegueta? 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  41 

him  Hartmann  Schedel,  "  Medicus  Norimb."  (Ham*,  X493 
Trithemus*7,  Gesner^,  Vossius^,  Fabricius*°)y  or  the  Pope 
^neas  Sylvius  (Maresius,  Schmidius,  in  Mylius^1},  or 
Matthias  Doringk  (Oudin,  Salig11},  or  simply  one  of 
the  learned  men,  ,,  f)OCf)l]devtcU  tttttttttett,"  mentioned 
in  the  colophon  of  the  German  edition,  knew  nothing 
of  those  western  discoveries.  Yet  it  is  this  interpo 
lation  which,  with  acute  collectors,  would  perhaps  entitle 
the  Chronicle  to  a  place  in  the  Eibliotheca  Americana^  as 
we  must  view  the  passage  concerning  Behaim  in  the 
light  of  a  counter  claim  set  up  in  consequence  of  the 
news  of  Columbus'  return  and  discoveries. 


Direct  references:  f  a<>  HAIN,  Rcpertorium,  No.  14508. 

HEUMANN,  in  MYLIUS,  Bibliotbeca  anonym,  (ed.  of  i74o),^Vol. 

n,  pages  147-9. 

SCHELHORN,  Amanit.  Lit.,  Vol  vm,  page  143. 
FREYTAG,  Analect.   Lift.,  page  82,5. 
CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  curieuse,  Vol.  vm,  pages  343—4. 
HELLER,  Gescbicbte  der  Hols&scbncidckunst ;  Bamberg,  8vo,  1823, 

page  71. 

MEUSEL,  Bibllotheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,  Part  i,  page  93. 
Bibliotheca  Spenceriana,  Vol.  HI,  page  255. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  1860. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  139. 

27  De  Serif  tor.  Eccksiast.;  fol.  139  apud  COM  ||  PENDIO/    OR  ||  DINEO^.    CAP  ||  TV    AC 
CLEMENT.  MEMO  ||  RATV  FACILLIMVM  ||  FOELIX  ET  GRA- 

28  Bibllotheca  Uni-vcrs.  ;   Friburg,  1583,  TVS  LEGITO. 
fol.,  page  318.  c,lofh,H, 

29  De  Histor.  Latin. ;  page  573.  IMPRESSIT  ||  Florentie    Antonius    Misco- 

30  Bibliotb.  med.  et    infim.    Lat. ;    Lib.  m;nus  ||  Anno    Salutis    .M.CCCCLXXXXIII.  || 
iv,  page  133.  Nonis  luniis. 

32  Comment,  de  Script.  Eccles.  ,•  De  Dypt.  *^*  Sm_  4t0j  I3O  leaves> 

Veter. ;  apud  CLEMENT.  (Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

*  Relying  upon  Rich  (Books  relating  to 

America,  1493-1700,  which  is  a  kind  of  We  are  sorry  to  say  that  we  found  only 

short  appendix  to  his  Bibliotheca),  we  con-  a  short  note  in  pencil,  to  the  effect    that 

sulte(j  .  the  work  shows  the  amount  of  geographical 

ZACHARIAE  LiLii  ||  viCENTiNi  ||  CANONICI  ||  knowledge  immediately  preceding  the  voy- 

REGVLA||RIS    OR||BIS    BRE  ||  VIARIVM  ||  FIDEX  age  of  Columbus. 

6 


42  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  14.  SCHEDEL  (  HAR  TMANN)—  f/V  HI  I  IHk  -I    -U  V  V  ' 


bet  KfD-  ntfett  tmb 
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trail  jriflwttf  fen  tmt  an- 
lHH}hi  fccr  toclMti*  auf 
Wfe  ttttfett 


Colophon  on  the  verso  of  leaf  CCLXII  : 

9luff  ptlirfjem  fce^tanb  enbet  fid)  alljie  bag  fcitrl)  tjoit 
ben  ncfd)id)teu  ber  alter  bet  ttier(t||tinb  bon 
ber  Berum^tiftett  tinb  nam^ttftigiftett  ftett  fagenbe 
©eorgillitm  alt  begmal§  (ofitngf^reiBer  ber  faiferlia^e 
rei(|ftatt  ^lurmfierg  auff  (atein  in  teittfa^  ||  tjefcradjt  unb 
Befi^fop  nad^  ber  gejwrt  ^rifti  3^f«  tinfferg 
9Jl.cccc.3tUi.  iar||am  futtften  tag  be§  manatg 
TOit^rono  fint  jjetyetue  (aubeg.  ag.  alt.||f 

*5|c*  Folio,  title  I,  nine  unnumbered  prelim,  leaves,  CCLXXXV 
numbered  leaves,  two  leaves  for  a  map  of  Central  Europe, 
on  the  verso  of  which  there  is  a  colophon  different  from  the 
above,  which  we  omit,  because  the  last  two  leaves  are  want 
ing  in  the  copy  before  us,  but  which  the  reader  will  find  in 
Clement.  Plates  colored. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


•j-  Anglict :  Register  of  the  books  of  the  don  of  the  most  celebrated  and  important 

Chronicles  and  histories,  with  figures  and  places,  translated  from  the  Latin  into 

portraits  from  the  beginning  of  the  world  German  by  Georges  Alt,  at  that  time 

to  our  own  times.  Secretary  of  the  free  city  of  Nuremberg, 

With  the  help  of  God  is  here  ended  and  finished  October  1 5th,  A.  D.  1493. 

the  book  treating  of  the  histories  of  the  Perpetual  praises  to  him  on  the  high 

antiquity  of  the  world,  and  of  the  descrip-  throne.  By  Alt.  (  ?  ) 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 


43 


The  present  work  is  only  a  translation  of  No.  14  by 
Georges  Alt,  Alten,  or  simply  Georges  senior,  printed 
by  Anthony  Koberger,  December  23d,  1493. 

The  passage  relating  to  Behaim  (which  is  wanting  in 
the  original  manuscript  of  the  German  translation,  while 
in  the  Latin  codex  it  is  inserted1  in  a  different  hand 
writing  from  the  rest  of  the  work)  will  be  found  in  the 
present  copy  on  the  verso  of  leaf  CCLXXXV. 

"  Cette  edition  ressemble  beaucoup  a  celle  de  1493  ;  mais  seulement 
dans  Pexterieur.  Si  nous  examinons  1'interieur  de  cette  Version, 
nous  y  remarquerons,  que  George  Alten  qui  en  est  1'Auteur,  ne  s'est 
pas  si  fort  gene,  qu'il  n'ait  abrege  le  Texte  Latin,  quand  il  le  trou- 
vait  a  propos  :  &  qu'il  n'en  ait  retranche  ce  qui  ne  lui  convenait  pas." 

(CLEMENT2.) 


Direct  references  : 


*  Bibliotheque  curietise,  Vol.  vn,  page  348. 
PANZER,  Annalen  der  dltern  dcutsch.  Lit.,  Vol.  I,  page  204. 
FREYTAG,  Analecta  Lift.,  page  825  ;  and  generally  the  authori 
ties  given  for  the  Latin  edition. 


H93- 


VERARDO  AND  C.  COLUMBUS— 


In 


nifli||mi  Ferdinand!  Hispania^  regis/  Be- 
thi-!icae  &  regni  Granatae/  obfidio/  victo- 
ria/  &  triuphus  Et  de  Infulis  in  mari  In- 
dico||nuper  inuentis.||f 


-   1494* 


1  The  MSS.  are  still  preserved  at  Nurem 
berg.  See  von  Murr's  Diplomat.  Gescbicbte. 

*  We  find  (GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  337, 
and  G.  BRUNET,  Nouii.  Biogr.  G«zer.,  Vol. 
xin,  col.  156),  under  the  date  of  1494,  a 
mention  of  a  poem  by  Dati,  the  title  of 
which  indicates  a  reference  to  the  Oceanic 
discoveries,  vix. ; 

Dcirisolc  scoperte  a  suoi  tempi.  Finito 
el  secondo  catare  dellindia,  Sec.  ;  Rome, 
Besicken,  410,  1494,  4!!.,  fig. 

We  read  the  same  title  in  Audiffredi 
(Roman,  edit.  Sac.  xv,  page  327),  but  with 
the  important  omission  of  the  first  line  : 
Deir  hole,  &c.,  which  alone  imparts  to  the 
title  the  appearance  of  an  Americana.  Is 


it  a  continuation  of  our  Nos.  7  and  8,  or  a 
new  work  altogether  ?  M.  Brunet  of  Bor 
deaux,  whom  we  consider  one  of  the  most 
learned  and  trustworthy  of  bibliographers, 
says,  in  reference  to  the  poem  of  Dati, 
that  it  is  "  assurement  curieux  mais  il 
n'est  connu  que  de  titre,  et  il  parait  in- 
trouvable  aujourd'hui."  On  the  other 
hand,  Audiffredi  adds  to  his  description  : 
"  Extat  in  Casanatensi." 

•)•  Anglicl :  To  the  praise  of  the  most 
illustrious  Ferdinand,  King  of  the  Spains, 
Bethica  and  Granada  [of  the  latter  of 
which]  the  siege,  victory,  and  triumph. 
And  of  the  Islands  newly  discovered  in 
the  Indian  Sea. 


44  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1494.  Then  full-length  portrait  of  Ferdinand,  differing 
somewhat  from  the  woodcut  on  the  recto  of  the  tenth 
leaf  of  No.  2. 

Recto  of  the  thirtieth  /^/(sign.  dd  vi)  : 


Epiftola  Chriftoferi  Colom  (cui  etas  nos- 
tra  mul-  ||  turn  debet  :  de  Infulis  in  mari 
Indico  nuper  inuen-  1|  tis  :  ad  quas  perqui- 
rendas  octauo  antea  menfe  :  au-||spiciis  & 
^re  inuidiffimi  Fernandi  Hifpaniaru  Re-|| 
gis  miffus  fuerat)  ad  Magnified  dominu 
Raphae-||lem  Sanxis  :  eiufdem  fereniffimi 
Regis  Thefaurari||um  miffa  :  quam  nobilis 
ac  litteratus  vir  Aliander||de  Cofco  :  ab 
Hifpano  ideomate  :  in  latinum  con-||uer- 
tit:  tercio  kalendas  Maii.  M.cccc.xciij.  Pon- 
tifi-  11  catus  Alexandri  Sexti  Anno  primo.|| 

In  fine  (verso  of  the  twenty-ninth  leaf}: 

1.4.94.  Nihil  line  caufa.1 

*£*  8vo,  thirty-six  unnumbered  leaves  ;  the  Letter  of  Columbus 
filling  only  the  last  seven  and  a  half;  six  woodcuts,  evidently 
copied  from  No.  ^,  Text  in  Roman. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington  city, 
Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

The  first  part  of  this  work  is  simply  a  drama  on  the 
capture  of  Granada  from  the  Moors  by  Ferdinand,  and 
which  was  represented  at  Rome  in  1492*. 

1  Nothing  without  a  cause.  (Device  of  2  CANCELLIERI,  Dissert.,  page  271,  adds 
Bergmann  de  Olpe,  printer  at  Basle.)  The  to  his  chaotic  note,  that  the  drama  "  Fu 
rest  of  the  title  as  in  No.  a.  tradotta  in  Francese  con  1'Epigrafe,  la 


Direct  references  : 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


45 


Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vu,  page  223. 

MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Histor.,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  260. 

MENCKE,  Catal.  des  Historiens,  page  310. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  838. 

Bibliotheca   Grcn-villiana,  page  731. 

N.  Y.  Syllacio,  Appendix,  page  xlviii. 

TERNAUX,  No.  4. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1129. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page   228,  states   that  of  this  edition   "  on  ne 

connait  que  2  ex." 
Bibliotbeca  Browniana,  No.  6. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  page  119. 
Easier   Buchdruckcrgcschichtc,    page    129,   contains  an    interesting 

sketch  of  the  printer,  Johannes  Bergmann  de  Olpe. 


1494. 


I  6.     STLLACIO   (NICHOLAS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

atr  fapietittimu  Hutmbtcu  Jftaria  gtfortia  Englu 
feptimu  JBe&u)  ||  iani  Buce :  tie  tfuite  tnetitiiani 
atcp  itrtci  mam  fufc  aufpicijs  tnuictif||nmo^  l^egu 
nup  tuetig :  i^icolat  fgliacij  ttnili  arti^ 


fr«  celebre,  digne  de  memoire  et  victorieuse 
prise  de  la  Cite  de  Grenade,  1497,  4." 
We  can  find  no  traces  of  this  French  trans 
lation,  and  are  unable  to  say  whether  it  also 
contains  the  Columbus  Letter. 

*  Our  attention  has  been  called  to  a 
notice  in  a  bookseller's  catalogue  of  a  small 
pamphlet,  sine  anno  out  loco  (but  which 
must  have  been  published  before  1495,  as 
the  author  takes  the  title  of  orator  to  John 
II,  thirteenth  King  of  Portugal,  who  died 
in  the  month  of  October  of  that  year), 
by  one  "  Ferdinandus,"  and  containing  on 
the  sixth  page  a  passage  which,  it  is  said, 
entitles  it  to  a  place  in  the  Bibliotheca 
Americana,  and  is  as  follows  : 

"  Primum  quod  eo  regnante  Henrici 
patrui  ejus  de  quo  supra  meminimus  in- 
dustria  cepta  navigari  Ethiopia  est.  Alte- 
rum  vero  sit  quod  eodem  tempore,  in 
oceano  Athlantico  decent  insule  <vix  ifsis 
orbis  descriptoribus  cognitie :  a  nostris  in- 
•vente  sunt ;  et  in  omnes  Lusitanie  colonie 
deducte^  &c.  We  take  that  Ferdinandus 
to  be  the  one  described  in  Antonio,  in 
these  words  : 

"  FERDINANDUS  VELASCUS,  Joannis  II. 
Portugalliae.  Regis  orator,  edidit : 

"Orationem  habitam  Romae  nomine  dicti 


Regis  ad  Innocentium  VIII.  Pontificem 
Maximum.  De  quo  auctor  est  Ludovicus 
Jacobus  a  Sancto  Carolo  in  Bibliotheca  Pon- 
tificia." 

(Bibliothec.  Hisf.  Nova  I,  page  393.) 

We   also   think  that    the    plaquette    is 

identical  with  that  which  is  mentioned  by 

Fossi  (Catal.  Codic.  Snecul.  xv,  Vol.  II,  col. 

737  ,and  by  the  great  Audiffredi  as  follows: 

"  VALASCI  FERDINANDI  UtriuSqUC  JUHS  COn- 

sulti  Illustrissimi  regis   Portugallie  oratoris 
ad  Innocentium.  viii.  pontificem  maximum 
de  obedientia  Oratio. 
(In  4°.  par.) 

"  Charact.  Goth.,  foil,  vi,  cum  signaturis  a.  a  ii. 
Exst.  in  Casanat.  Emendandus  est  hujus  Orationis 
titulus,  quilegiturin  Specim.  P.  L.  page  z6z,  nimi- 
rum :  Valaici  fro  Ferdinando  Portugallia  Rege, 
&c.,  quo  Oratoris  nomen  ipsi  Regi,  qui  Johannes 
II.  vocabatur  tribuitur.  Recte  autem  titulus  re- 
fertur  in  Catalogo  Biblioth.  Regis,  a  P.  L.  in 
subjecta  annot.  laudato." 

( Catalog.  Seec.  xv.  page  167.) 

It  is  evident  that  the  above  passage  en 
titles  the  pamphlet  only  to  a  place  in  the 
Bibliotheque  Africaine ;  as  it  refers  to  the 
discoveries  accomplished  under  the  reign  of 
Henry,  King  of  Portugal.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  oration  was  delivered  at  Rome, 
as  we  take  it,  in  Innocent's  life-time. 
Now,  Pope  Innocent  VIII  died  in  July, 


46  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1  495.  urn  t||tiutrtcin£  trortorte  pi)ilofr)pf)ia  $apt£  i 


Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

Be  infulte  merftuani  atqp  intrici  tnari  nuper 
uentte.ll 


tx  papia  3Mfcus  trecemfcrtfws. 
tiij.  lit 

*#*  410,  //#*  anno  aut  loco  (but  supposed  to  have  been  printed  at 
Pavia,  in  1494  or  1495,  by  Girardhengi),  ten  unnumbered 
leaves,  thirty-five  lines  in  a  full  page  ;  text  in  black  letter. 
No  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.      The  only  other  copy  known 
is  in  the  Trivulzio  Library,  Milan.) 

"  In  1494,  while  Scillacio  was  thus  employed  at  Pavia  [as  lec 
turer  on  Philosophy  in  the  University],  living  at  the  time  with 
Giovanni  Antonio  Biretta  [who  printed  several  works  in  connection 
with  Francesco  Girardhengi  —  PANZER],  Guglielmo  Coma,  a  noble 
personage,  wrote  to  him  from  Spain,  describing  the  discoveries  re 
cently  made  by  Columbus.  These  letters  he  immediately  translated 
into  Latin,  inserting  such  other  accounts  as  were  then  universally 
current. 

"  The  voyage  to  which  this  account  refers  is  the  second  ;  that  on 
which  Columbus  sailed  from  Cadiz,  on  the  25th  September,  1493. 
The  first  island  he  discovered  was  called  Dominica,  from  the  day  in 
which  it  was  seen.  The  second  was  named  Maria-galante,  or  vo- 
lante,  after  the  Admiral's  vessel.  He  then  visited,  in  succession, 
Guadaloupe,  Santa-Cruz,  the  Island  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  now 
Porto-Rico,  and,  last  of  all,  Hispaniola. 

"  This  voyage  has  also  been  described  by  other  writers  of  the 
same  age.  Among  these  are  the  physician  Chanca1  of  Seville  ;  who, 


1492,  or  eight  months  before  it  was  known  and  Medicine,  Lecturer  on  Philosophy  at 

in  Europe  that  Columbus  had  rediscovered  Pavia. 

the  New  World.  Adieu,  [dated]   Pavia,  ides  of  Decem- 

j"  Anglic e :  To  the  most  learned  Lewis  ber,  1494. 

Maria  Sforza  of  Anghiera,  seventh  Duke  :  Published  for  the  first  time  by  Navar- 
of  Milan.  Concerning  the  newly  discovered  rete,  in  his  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  pages  198- 
islands  of  the  South  and  Indian  Ocean,  224 ;  and  afterwards  in  Mr.  Major's  Select 
under  the  auspices  of  the  most  invincible  Letters,  pages  1 8-68,  with  an  English  trans- 
Sovereigns  of  the  Spains.  Preface  of  lation,  republished  in  the  Appendix  to  the 
Nicholas  Syllacio  of  Sicily,  Doctor  of  Arts  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  pages  i-xxxiv. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  47 

by  order  of  the  King  and  Queen  of  Spain,  accompanied  Columbus  in 
this  expedition,  and  also  Peter  Martyr  of  Anghiera2." 

(N.  Y.  Sy/lacio,  Introd.,  page  XI.) 

Direct  references  :    i  Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vn,  page  2,23. 

{  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  193. 
|  RONCHINI,  Intorno  a.  un  rarissimo  opuscule,  Modena,  8vo,  1856. 
Nicolaus   Syllacius,  N.  Y.,  fol.   and    410,    1859,   a  valuable  reprint 

with  a  translation;  privately  printed. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  166 


17.    LILIO  (ZACHARr}-lN      HOC      VOLVMINE     1496, 
CON||TINENTVR   HI   LIBRI. 

Primus  liber  De  origine  &  laudibus 
fcientiarum.  ||  Secundus  liber.  Contra  An 
tipodes  ||  Tertius  liber  De  miferia  hominis 
&  contemptu  ||  mundi.  ||  Quartus  liber  De 
generibus  uentorum  ||  Quintus  liber  Vita 
Caroli  Magni.|| 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf : 

ZACHARIAE  LILI  VICENTINI  CANONI|| 
CI  REGVLARIS  AD  VENERANDVM  ||  PAT- 
REM  SACRIS  LITTERIS  ET  ||  PRVDENTIA 
CLARVM.  D.  GA||BRIELEM  VICENTINVM 

CON||CANONICVM   DE  ORIGINE  ET  ||  LAV- 
DIBVS  SCIENTIARVM  LIBER||  INCIPIT. 

Colophon  : 

FINISH  FLORENTIAE || IMPRESSVM  || 
Per   Ser    Franciscu    Bonaccursium  ||  Im- 
penfa  uero  &  fumptibus  Ser  ||  Petri  Pacini 
de  Pifcia.    Anno  Salutis| 

M.  CCCC.  LXXXXVIH 
Septimo  idus  Aprilis.|| 

2  Decade  I,  lib.  II. 


48  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I4.Q6.  ***  4to>  seventy-two  unnumbered  leaves.  On  the  recto  of  the 
last,  the  register  ;  on  the  verso,  a  woodcut  representing  the 
arms  (probably)  of  the  Piscia  family.  Diagram  on  the  recto 
of  J-iv.  Printed  in  Roman  type. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  In  this  remarkable  work  (f.  ii)  allusion  is  made  to  the  recent  dis 
covery  of  America  by  the  Spaniards." 

(LlBRI.1) 

"  Zacharie    Lilio,    Chanoine    regulier    de   Saint-Jean-de-Latran  et 
eveque  titulaire  de  Sebasti  en  Armenie,  ne  a  Vienne  dans  le  1 5e  Siecle1." 

Direct  references:  (  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  I  (of  1733),  page  629. 
PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  I,  page  424. 
FABRICIUS,  Bib/.  Media  et  Infim.  Lat.,  Vol.  VI,  page  921. 
LAIRE,  Index  Librorum,  Vol.  n,  page  214. 
AUDIFFREDI,  Spec.  ed.  Ita/.,  page  348. 
Fossi,  Catalog.  Codic.  Sac.  xv,  Vol.  II,  cols.  79-80. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  2526. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  ill,  col.   1078. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  IV.  page  210. 


1 8.     BENEDETTI  (ALEXANDER)— DIARIA     DE     BEL- 

LO  CAROLING. 

Recto  of  the  last  leaf: 

Alexander  Benedictus  Veronenfis  Phy- 
fi  ||cus  Sebaftiano  Baduario  eqti :  &  Hie|| 
ronymo  Bernardo  con{iliariis||Veneti  Sena- 
tus  Clariffimis.||S.  P.  D.) 

Venetiis||M  .IIIID.  Sexto  Cal.  Septem- 
bres.  || 

Impetratum  eft  ab  Illuftriff.  S.  Veneto 
ne  lice  ||  at  cuiq  has  ephemeridas  imprimere 

1  Catalogue  of  1 861,  No.  294.  universe/,  Paris,    1810    (9th    edit.),  Vol. 

a  Chandon  et    Delandine's  Dictionnairc     x,  page  136. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  49 

nec  latino  fermoe  nee  uulgario  &c.  ut  I   1496, 
priuilegio.* 

*#*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  (but  supposed  to  have  been  printed  in  1496, 
from  the  date  of  the  above-mentioned  letter;  and  by  Aldus  at 
Venice,  because  the  type  resembles  that  in  the  edition  of  the 
jEtna  of  Bembo,  given  by  that  celebrated  printer).  Title, 
with  verses  on  the  verso,  -f-  sixty-seven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  Ce  journal  d'Alexandre  Benedetti,  medecin  attache  a  1'armee  veni- 
tienne  opposee  a  Charles  VIII,  a  ete  reimprime  a  la  suite  de  PHistoria 
veneta  de  P.  Giustiniano,  edit,  de  Strasb.,  1611,  in  fol.,  et  inseree 
par  Eccard  dans  son  Corpus  bistor.  medii  avi,  Lips.,  1723,  in  fol.,  n, 
col.  1577-1628." 

(CLEMENT1.) 

We  insert  this  work,  we  are  sorry  to  say,  on  no  bet 
ter  authority  than  the  Bibliotbeca  Americana,  London, 
1789,  4to,  alleged  to  have  been  perpetrated  by  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Homer.  After  a  diligent  survey  of  the  book,  we 
are  constrained  to  confess  that  we  did  not  find  a  single 
line  or  word  relating  to  America.  Others  may  be  more 
successful. 

Direct  references :  f  FABRICIUS,  Biblioth.  Lat.  Med.y  Vol.  I,  page  1 64. 

PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vols.  Ill,  page  402,  IV,  449. 
MEUSEL,  Biblioth.  Histor.,  Vol.  Til,  page  175. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana  (see  Paentius). 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  771. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  I,  page  334. 

*  Anglicl :  Alexander  Benedict  of  Ve-  1510.      The    Most  Illustrious    Senate  of 
rona,    Physician    to    Sebastian    Baduarius,  Venice  forbids  any  one  to  print  these  an- 
and  to  Jerome  Bernard,  Counsellors  of  the  nals,  either  in   Latin  or  in  common  Ian- 
Most    Illustrious    Venetian    Senate,    Hail  guage,  as  [expressed]  in  the  privilege, 
and  Greeting.  *  Bibliothcquc   Curieusc,   Vol.    Ill,    page 

Venice,  the  sixth  calend  of  September,  1 30. 


^o  Biblwtheca  Americana. 

1497.  IQ.     COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER}-^^    fjjjott 

ban  etfidjen  infflen||bie  bo  in  fourteen  ^ten  fmtben  ftyub 

buriij  be  ||  filing  unit  Ijifvnnia.  tinb  fagt  bo  flvofjcn  uwn|| 
bertidjeu  bittgett  bie  in  be  fel&e  infflen  tynb. 

Then  woodcut  of  the  king  receiving  Columbus,  which  is  repeated 
on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf. 

Colophon : 

©etntcft  ju  ftraflwrg  toff  grwtecf  too  meifter  $artlo- 
nteff  fitftfer  tym  iar:  SJt.cccc.yctoi}.  toff  fant  ^cron^mus 
tag.  ||* 

*!)c*  Sm.  410  ;  eight  unnumbered  leaves,  the  last  of  which  is  blank. 
Thirty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Ebert1  and  Graesse2  state  that  this  curious  German 
translation  of  the  first  Letter  of  Columbus  has  been 
republished  in  the  Rbeiniscb.  Archiv.,  Vol.  xv,  page 
17,  sq. 

There  is  a  very  successful  fac-simile  made  by  the 
elder  Harris  of  London. 

Direct  references  :  f  HAIN,  Refertorium,  Vol.  I,  No.  5493. 

MEUSEL,  Biblioth.  Histor.,  Vol.  Ill,  page  261. 

HUMBOLDT,  Exam.  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  page  73. 

Biblwtheca  Gren-vil/iana,  page  159. 

N.  Y.  Syllacio,  Appendix,  page  Ivi,  for  a  well-executed  fac-simile 

of  the  woodcut  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf. 
Bibliotbeca  Broivniana,  Nos.  7  and  8. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  165. 

STEVENS,  American  Bibliographer,  page  67,  states  that  it  contains 
"changes  and  additions." 


*  Anglkl :  A  fine,  nice  reading,   con-          J  Bibliogr.     Dictionary,    Vol.     I,     page 

cerning  several  islands  which  have  lately  371. 

been    discovered   by   the   King  of  Spain  ;          a  Tr'esor,  Vol.  II,  page  228,  also  refers 

and  giving  an  account  of  great  and  won-  to    Hummel.  Ncuc    Bibl.,    v.    selten  Buch., 

derful   things   found   in    the    said   islands.  Vol.   i,    page    15,  s<?.       Am    Ende,    Frei- 

Printed  at  Strasburg  by  Master  Bartholo-  miith.    Betracht.    iiber  alte    u.    neue    Bii-. 

mew  Kustler,  in  the  year  1497,  the  day  cher.   Augsb.,   1784.  in-8°.  Vol.  i,  page 

of  St.  Jerome.  79,  sq. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  51 

2O.  ANONYM.— Dife  figur  anzaigt  vns  das  volck  vnd  1497' 
infel  die  gefunden  ift  durch  den  chriftenlichen  kiinig  zu 
Portigal  oder  von  feinen  vnderthonen.  Die  leiit  find  alfo 
nacket  hiibfch.  braun  wolgeftalt  von  leib.  ir  heiibter.|| 
halfz.  arm.  scham.  fufz.  frawen  vnd  mann  ain  wenig  mit 
federn  bedeckt.  Auch  haben  die  mann  in  iren  ange- 
fichten  vnd  bruft  vid  edel  geftain.  Es  hat  auch  nyemantz 
nichts  funder  find  alle  ding  gemain.  ||  Vnnd  die  mann 
habendt  weyber  welche  in  gefallen,  es  fey  mutter, 
fchwesfter  oder  freiindt.  darjnn  haben  fy  kain  vnder- 
fchayd.  Sy  ftreyten  auch  mit  einander.  Sy  eflen  auch 
ainander  felbs  die  erfchlagen  ||  werden.  vnd  hencken  das 
felbig  fleifch  in  den  rauch.  Sy  werden  alt  hundert  vnd 
funtzig  iar.  Vnd  haben  kain  regiment.  ||* 


Folio.  "  The  above  text,  in  German,  occupies  four  lines  be 
neath  an  old  block  leaf,  nine  by  thirteen  inches  square,  repre 
senting  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  natives  ot  the  North 
ern  and  Eastern  coast  of  South  America  as  first  found  by  the 
Portuguese  at  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  or  beginning  of  the 
sixteenth  century.  It  is  without  date,  but  was  probably  printed 
at  Augsburg,  or  Nuremberg,  between  the  years  1497  and 
1504'." 

(British  Museum.) 


:  f  1  STEVENS,  American 
-I  xylographic  leaf. 
^  Historical  Nuggets, 


Direct  references :  f  *  STEVENS,  American  Bibliographer,  page  8,  with  fac-simile  of  the 

No.  77. 


*  Anglice :    This  figure   represents  to  us  anything,  but  all   things  are  in  common, 

the    people    and   island  which    have  been  And  the   men  have   as   wives  those  who 

discovered  by  the  Christian  King  of  For-  please  them,  be  they  mothers,  sisters,  or 

tugal  or   by  his  subjects.     The  people  are  friends,  wherein  they  make  no  distinction, 

thus  naked,  handsome,  brown,  well  shaped  They  also   fight   with  each  other,  and  eat 

in  body,  their  heads,  necks,  arms,  private  each     other,    even    the    slain,    and    hang 

parts,  and  the  feet  of  men  and  women,  are  that    same    flesh    in    the    smoke.      They 

a  little  covered  with  feathers.     The  men  become    a    hundred    and   fifty    years    old, 

have  also  in  their  faces  and  breast  many  and  have  no  government, 
precious  stones.     Nor  does  any  one  possess 


5  2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

IAQ8.  21.       SABELLICO   (MARC-ANTONIO)—  M.       ANTONIVS 

SABELLICVS:  AVGVSTINO  BARBADICO  SE- 
RENISSIMO||VENETIARVM  PRINCIPI  ET 
SENATVI  FELICITATEM.H 

Recto  of  second  leaf: 

LIBER  PRIMVS.||MARCI  ANTONII  COC- 
CII  SABELLICI  IN  RAPSODIAM  HISTORI- 
ARVM  AD  ORBE  CONDITO.|| 

Colophon  : 

IMPRESSVM  VENETIIS  PER   BERNARDI- 

NVM  ET  MA-HTHEVM  VENETOS.  Q  VIVVL- 

GO  DICVNTVR  LIAL-||  BANESOTI.  ANNO 
INCARNATIONIS  DOMINI-||CE.  MCCCCXC- 
VIII.  PRIDIE  CALENDAS  APRI-||LIS.  REG- 
NANTE  INCLITO  AVGVSTI-||NO  BARBADI- 
CO  SERENISSIMOU  VENETIARVM  PRIN 
CIPE.  ||  FELICITVR  DIVQ  VE||ET  FAVSTE 
SVI||PERSTITE.  DIV. 

Then,  printer's  mark. 

*£*  Large  folio,  CCCCLXII  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  is  the  first  part,  which  we  have  seen  frequently 
quoted  by  the  modern  biographers  of  Columbus,  con 
cerning  the  Admiral's  early  life,  or  on  the  subject  of 
the  Columbuses  who  had  preceded  him,  especially  the 
one  called  by  Sabellicus  himself,  "  Archipirata  illustris." 
The  following  continuation,  however,  is  somewhat  fuller 
on  the  subject  of  Christopher  Columbus  and  his  voyages, 
viz. : 

— Secunda  pars   Enneadum  ab  inclinatione  Romani 

Imp.  usque  ad  annum  1504,  cum  Epitome. 

Ed.  hujus  collectionis  prima 

Venetiis,  Bernardinus  Vercellensis,  1504,  folio. 

(KLOSS1.) 
1  Catalogue,  page  241,  No.  3385. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  53 

"  Chacune  de  ces  Enneades  contient  neuf  livres.  Sabellico  en  pub- 
lia  sept,  on  soixante-trois  livres,  a  Venise,  en  1498,  in  fol.,  et  en 
1504,  trois  autres  Enneades,  et  deux  livres  de  plus  :  en  tout  quatre- 
vingt  douze  livres." 

(GlNGUENZ9.) 

Marcus-Anthony  Coccio,  alias  Sabellicus,  was  born 
in  1436,  at  Vicovaro3,  in  or  about  the  country  of  the  old 
Sabines  (hence  his  surname);  he  died  at  Venice  in  1506, 
of  an  extremely  unpleasant  complaint4.  He  is  the  author 
of  the  above  attempt  at  a  universal  history  from  the  be 
ginning  of  the  world  to  the  year  1503,  which  he  divided 
into  Enneades.  We  regret  to  say  that  we  have  never 
been  able  to  consult  that  rare  compilation,  which  is  fre 
quently  quoted  in  histories,  where  mention  is  made  of 
Columbus  and  his  transatlantic  voyages.  "The  eighth 
book  of  the  tenth  Enneade  contains  a  short  ("  exiguis 
tantum  punctis"  Jovius  would  say5),  but,  we  are  told, 
highly  interesting  sketch  of  Columbus.  It  was  written 
before  the  year  1503,  at  a  time  when  the  only  printed 
works  treating  of  the  Western  World,  so  far  as  we 
know,  were  Columbus'  letter,  Syllacio's  second-hand 
relation,  and  one  or  two  of  the  letters  of  Vespuc- 
cius.  On  that  account  the  Enneades^  like  Maffei  of 
Volterra's  Commentary,  and  Bergomas'  Chronicle,  ac 
quire  that  kind  of  interest  which  pertains  to  all  works 
relating  to  this  country,  and  published  before  the  first 
Decades  of  Peter  Martyr,  which  form,  as  it  were,  the 
basis  and  material  of  al]  subsequent  publications  on 
the  subject. 

In  Sabellicus'  Rerun  venetiarum  ab  urbe  condita  (De- 
cad.  4,  lib.  3),  we  only  find  the  remark  :  "  Adh<ec  negocia 
de  more  exierant  triremes  quatuor,  .  .  .  Sed  cum  h*e  Ibe- 
ricum  navigant  oceanum,  Columbus  junior,  Columbi  pirate 
isj  ut  ajunt^  nepos,  cum  sept  em  navibus  ad  pugnam  in- 


a  Histoire  Litteraire  (fltalie,  Vol.  3,  4  VALERIAN,  De  littcratorum  infclicitatc 

page  428.  (Edit,  of  1811.)  (Amst.,  1647),  page  28.  Jovius,  de  gli 

8  TIRABOSCHI,  Storia  del/a  Letter.  Ital.,  Hvomini  famosi  (Venice,  1558),  page  104. 

Vol.  VI,  page  698.  (Edit,  of  1807.)  •  Elog.  Viror,  doct.,  Chap.  XLVIII. 


54  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1 4.0  8 .  structis  circa  Sacrum  promontorium  .  .  .  sub  noctem  factus 
est  Veneto  obvius"  which  is  probably  a  repetition  of  the 
passage  in  the  first  Enneades,  and  which  derives  its  im 
portance  chiefly  from  the  great  stress  laid  upon  it  by 
Fernando  Columbus  in  that  curious  chapter  of  the  His- 
toriey  where  he  strives  to  make  the  reader  believe  that  his 
father  could  reckon  among  his  ancestors  the  Cilio  men 
tioned  by  Tacitus. 

Direct  references:  f  BERGOMENSIS,  Suppl.  Cronic.  (edit  of  1506),  page  435. 

\    MAITTAIRK,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol    I  (edit,  of  1733),  Pa§e  ^^4- 
I    PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vm,  page  371. 
SAXIUS,  Onomasticon,  Vol.  II,  page  496. 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,  page  96. 
Vossius,  de  Historicis  Latinis,  page  670. 
NICERON,  Memoires,  Vols.  xn  and  xx. 


SIXTEENTH   CENTURY. 


22.    FESPUCCIUS    (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 


JUbmnt*  wfjmcitt* 

tie  metricis  falutem  pluritnam 


Weft.  II* 

End  of  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf  : 


italica  in  latinam  linguam  ioctitrus  interpret 
pc  epiJMam  bertit  bt||lattni  oes  tnteliigant  $  mulz 
ta  miratra  in  tries  reperian!  r  eo^  cmnprima||tur 
autracia  qui  ceiu  et  maieftatem  fctutati:  et  plus 
fapete  ©  liceat  faperellbolunt  :  quantro  a  tanto  itm? 
pnre  quo  tnuntrus  cepit  ignota  fit  baftita£i||terte  r 
que  contineatur  in  ea||f 

Deo 


*,,.*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco;  four  unnumbered  leaves.  Only 
forty  lines  in  a  full  page,  a.  triangle  at  the  top  of  the  fourth 
page  ;  neither  signatures  nor  water-marks. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

*  Anglkl  :  The  New  World.  Alberic  j-  The  interpreter  Giocundi  translated  this 
Vespucius  presents  his  best  wishes  to  Lau-  letter  from  the  Italian  into  the  Latin 
rent  Peter  de  Medicis.  language,  that  all  who  are  versed  in 


^6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  5 Of.  Albericus  (Madrignano\  Ruchamer2,  Jehan  Lambert^, 
•.  Emeric  (Du  Redouer4),  Alberico5  or  Americo  (Goma- 
ra6),  Morigo  (Hojeda1},  Amerrigo  (Munoz*),  Ameri- 
cus  (Peter  Martyr9),  Almerigo  Fiorentino  (Vianello10]  de 
Espuche11,  Vezpuche12,  Despuchi13,  Vespuccio  (Ramu- 
sio14),  Vespuchy  (Christ.  Columbus^),  usually  called  Amer- 
icus  Vespuccius,  the  third  son  of  a  public  notary  of 
patrician  origin,  was  born,  March  9th,  H5I16,  some 
say  at  Venice  (Herrera17),  or  at  Florence,  in  a  hospital 
founded  by  one  of  his  ancestors,  and  which  is  still  stand 
ing  in  the  street  called  Borgpgnissanti.  He  was  educated 

0  ^J      O 

by  his  uncle,  a  learned  friar,  with  whom  he  seems  to 
have  been  still  studying,  October  i8th,  I4y618,  in  com 
pany  with  Pietro  Soderini  (Guliano  Riccil()),  who  became 
afterwards  (from  1502  to  1512)  Gonfalonier  of  Flor 
ence20,  and  to  whom  the  duplicate  account  of  the  third 
voyage  was  addressed. 

Nothing  is  known  of  him  from  the  time  he  was  a  stu- 

O 

dent  to  the  year  1490,  when  he  left  Italy.21    He  repaired 

the  Latin  may  learn  how  many  wonder-         9  Decade  n,  lib.  10. 
ful  things  are  being  discovered  every  day,          10  Letter  to  the  Signoria  of  Venice,  dis- 
and     that    the     temerity    of    those    who  covered  by  Ranke,  and  published  in  Hum- 
want    to    probe    the    Heavens    and    their  boldt's  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  p.  157. 
Majesty,  and  to    know  more  than  is  al-          ll  NAVAR.,  Vol.  Ill,  Doc.  Ill,  p.  292. 
lowed  to  know,  be  confounded ;    as    not-          ia  Id.,  Doc.  IT,  p.  292. 
withstanding    the    long    time    since     the          13  Id.,  Doc.  IX,  p.  299. 
world  began  to  exist,  the  vastness  of  the          14  Raccolta. 

earth   and   what   it    contains   is    still   un-          15  Letter  to   his  son   Diego,   Feb.   5th, 

known.  IS°S>   in  NAV.,   Vol.    i,   p.    349.      That 

1  Itiner.  Portugal/.,  cap.  cxxn.  name  seems  to  be  a  corruption  of  the  Ger- 
8  Newe  unbekanthe,  lib.  v.  man  word  Amalrich  ;  see  VON  DER  HAGEN, 

3  Title  to  his  and  all  the  separate  edi-     Amerika,  ein  urspriinglicb  Deutscher  Name, 
tions  of  Vespuccius'  letters.  in    Neum    lahrb.   der   Berlin.    Gcsclhchaft, 

4  Titles  to  the  five  editions  of  his  trans-      1835,  p.  13-17. 

lation  of  Vespuccius'  letters  into  French.  16  Libra  fapprovazioni  d'eta,  chesi  con- 

8  Titles  to  the  six  editions  of  the  Pacsi  ser-va  nell"  Archi-vo  Secreto  de  S.  A.  R. 

nouamente  retrouati.  (Great  Duke  of  Toscany),  in  BANDINI, 

*  Historia  general  de  las  Indias ;  Sara-  p.  XXIV. 

gos.,  fol.,   1552-535   Medina  del   Campo,  17  Decad.  I,  lib.  IV,  c.  4. 

fol.,   1553;    Saragos.,  fol.,    1554;   Antw.,  I8  Letter  to  his  father  (Strozziana  Libr., 

8vo,    1552    (for    1554);    and   in    Barcia's  codice  480) ;  BAND.,  pp.  XXVII-XXTIII. 

Historiadores  primitives,  cap.  103.  l9  apud  BAND.,  p.  XXV. 

7  Probanzas  del  Fiscal,  No.  LXIX,  NA-  20  RANKE'S  letter  to  Humboldt,  in  Ex- 
VAR.,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  544.  amen  Critique,  Vol.  V,  p.  261. 

8  Historia  del  Nuc-vo  Mundo,  p.  x.  21  BANDINI,  p.  xxxv. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  57 

to  Spain  in  the  beginning  of  1493  (Humboldt^},  as  an  150! 
agent  (Bartolozzi^}  of  Lorenzo  di  Pierfrancesco  de  Me 
dici  (cousin  of  the  great  Lorenzo),  or  simply  as  clerk 
(Navarrete24}  in  the  leading  commercial  house  of  his 
countryman  Juanoto  Berardi,  at  Seville.  Miinster25 
erroneously  asserts  that  Vespuccius  joined  the  first 
expedition  of  Columbus  in  1492,  while  Canovai16  states 
that  he  was  sent  as  an  apprentice  by  Ferdinand  on 
the  second  voyage  in  1493.  After  the  death  of  Juan 
oto  Berardi,  December,  1495  (Navarrete17),  Vespuc 
cius  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  factor  or  part 
ner17;  and,  as  such,  equipped  the  vessels  for  the  third 
expedition  of  Columbus  ;  receiving,  January  I2th, 
I49618,  ten  thousand  maravedis.  From  April,  1497,  to 
May  3Oth,  1498,  Vespuccius  was  constantly  traveling 
from  Seville  to  San  Lucar  (Munoz).  He  was  married 
to  Maria  Cerezo,  when  and  where  does  not  appear.  She 
survived  him*9. 

Vespuccius  quitted  Spain  for  Portugal  in  1501,  secretly 
(Bandini10),  or  at  the  instigation  of  King  Emmanuel31, 
and  remained  at  Lisbon,  or  on  board  Portuguese  vessels, 
to  1505,  when  he  returned  to  Spain,  at  the  request  of 
Ferdinand.  He  repaired  to  the  court  with  an  earnest 
letter  of  introduction  from  Columbus  to  his  son  Diego, 
February  5th,  1505,  and  was  made  a  Spanish  subject, 
April  24th,  I5O532.  From  May,  1505,  until  August, 
1506,  Vespuccius  was  at  Palos  and  Moguer,  preparing 
Pinzon's  expedition.  On  the  23d  of  August,  1506,  he 

82  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  p.  45.  las  fosesiones  espano/as  in  America,  sacados 

33  Ricerche,  p.  79;  on  the  authority  of  del  Real  arc hi-vo  de  Indias  ;  Madrid,  1864, 

several  letters  contained  in  the  "  Carteggio  Tom.  I,  No.  3,  p.  241,  we  find  a  memo- 

della  Famiglia  de  Medici,"  in  the  Archives  rial  "  de  Juanoto  Berardi  acerca  de  varias 

of  the  Medici,  in  Florence.  cosas  tocantes  a  la  gobernacion  de  las  In- 

24  Coleccion,  Vol.  in,  p.  315.  dias,"  to  which  the  editors  ascribe  the  date 

55  Cosmograpbia    Uni-versalis ;  Basle,   n.  of  1517. 

d.  (1550),  fol.,  p.  1269.  18  NAVARRETE,  Vol.  in,  p.  317. 

86  Viaggi,  p.  i23;D/'M«r/fl2;.£/'«rf.,No.  7.  39  MuRoz,  Historia,  Prologo,  p.  x. 

47  Colcccion,Vo\.  Ill,  p.  317.   Have  there  30  Vita,  p.  XLVI. 

been  two  Juanoto  Berardis  ?     In  the  Co-  "  Third  voyage  in  HYLACOMYLUS,  Gru- 

Icccion   de   Documents  ineditos  rclati-vos   al  nig.  edit.,  recto  of  F-iiij. 

descubrimiento,  conquista  y  colonization  de  8a  NAVAR.,  Vol.  in,  Doc.  IT, 

8 


$8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

was  written  to  by  order  of  Philip  I",  to  ascertain  what 
was  required  for  an  expedition  in  the  search  of  groceries 
(with  Vicente  Yanez  Pinzon34). 

In  1506,  Vespuccius  was  associated  with  Juan  de  la 
Cosa  for  a  new  expedition,  in  which  he  was  to  command 
the  caravel  La  Medina,  but  which  did  not  sail,  owing 
to  the  death  of  King  Philip.  He  was  again  summoned 
to  the  court,  November  26th,  1507",  and  appointed 
Chief  Pilot  of  the  Indies  before  March  22d,  1508,  on 
which  day  he  received  a  certain  number  of  maravedis, 
although  his  nomination  (or  perhaps  only  an  extension 
of  powers)  is  dated  August  6th,  I5o836. 

Vespuccius  finally  died,  at  Seville,  February  22d, 
I5I237,  or  at  Terceira,  one  of  the  Azore  islands,  in  1516 
(G.  Lopez  de  Pintho^,  Bandini,  Meusel),  or  in  1518 
(Negri*9),  poor,  but  highly  respected  by  all40,  never 
dreaming  that  he  had  discovered  a  new  continent,  and 
persuaded41,  like  Columbus42,  that,  at  best,  he  only  visited 
the  western  coast  of  Japan. 

Four  voyages  are  ascribed  to  Vespuccius.  The  first 
voyage  was  undertaken  for  the  King  of  Spain,  probably 
under  Hojeda  (Las  Casas4*,  H  err  era,  Charlevoix^,  Hum- 

83  Philip  the  Fair,  who  reigned  only  is  made  to  say  that  he  brought  with  him 

from  June  27th,  1506,  to  Sept.  25th,  two  hundred  and  twenty  slaves  (as  if  such 

1506;  but  long  enough  to  deserve  the  a  number  of  human  beings  could  hold  to- 

contempt  in  which  he  is  held  by  all  im-  gether  with  the  crew  in  the  light  caravels 

partial  historians.  of  those  days),  may  be,  after  all,  the  real 

34  NAVAB.,  Vol.  in,  Doc.  v.  cause  of  his  wrath. 

38  Id.,  Doc.  xxvi.  41  Duplicate  of  second  voyage,  in  BAN- 

86  Id.,  Doc.  vn  and  vin.  DINI,  pp.  66  and  83.     We  are  at  a  loss 

87  Id.,  Doc.  x.  to   find  the   authority   for  Alcedo's  state- 
38  apud  BANDINI,  p.  LXIII,  and  CANO-  ment  that :  "  el  Rey  de  Portugal  para  per- 

VAI,  p.  156.  petuar  su  memoria  hizo  colgar  en  la  Ygle- 

89  htoria  de  Fiorent.  Scrittori ;  Ferrara,  sia  Metropolitana  de  Lisboa  los  fragmentos 

fol.,  1722,  p.  31.  de  la  Nave  que  mandaba."  Bibliotheca 

40  The  only  exception  is  Las  Casas ;  but  Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  n,  p.  891  There  is 

we  should    not  forget  that   the  good   but  a  similar  assertion    in    NEGRI  (Istoria,  p. 

impulsive  Bishop  of  Chiapas  did  not  com-  31.) 

mence  writing   his  Historia   de  las  Indias          42  Letter  in  NAVAR.,  Vol.   I,    p.    3045 

until   1527;  and  the  severe  language  used  and  Letter  to  the  Pope,   id.  op.,  Vol.   II, 

in  Lib.  i,  caps.  164  and  168  seems  to  have  p.  280. 

been  prompted  by  Hylacomylus'  version,  a          43  Historia  de  las  Indias,  MS.,  Cap.  164. 

late  edition  of  which  he   cites  in   Lib.  i,         44  Histoire    de   risle-Esfagnole  ;    Parrs 

cap.  140.     The  passage  where  Vespuccius  4to. 


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59 


,  Vespuccius  sailing  in  the  capacity  of  pilot  (Ho- 
jeda*},  or  of  simple  trader  (Servetus46),  or  of  a  mer 
chant  well  versed  in  cosmography  (Herrera),  or  selected 
by  King  Ferdinand  to  aid  in  making  discoveries  (Valori- 
Bandini*7),  or  as  the  astronomer  of  the  expedition  (Hum- 
boldt^\  or  as  a  passenger  pecuniarily  interested  (fira- 
boschi^). 

He  sailed  from  Cadiz,  May  2oth,  1497  (Hylacomylus* ', 
Giuntini51} ,  or  May  loth,  1497  (Palori-Bandim**,  Cano- 
vai"),  or  May  2oth,  1499  (Las  Casas,  H err era). 

First  reached  the  mainland  after  a  passage  of  twenty- 
seven  days  (Hylacomylus™ •,  Giuntint)^  or  thirty-seven  (Va- 
lori-Bandini™,  Canovai*6).  Returned  to  Cadiz,  October 
1 5th,  1499  (Hylacomylus51},  or  October  I5th,  1498  (Ca- 
novai5*"),  or  October  I4th,  1498  (Valori-Bandini™},  bring 
ing  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  slaves  (Indians),  who 
were  sold. 

If  Hylacomylus'  dates  are  correct,  the  leader  of  that 
expedition  is  entitled  to  the  credit  of  having  landed  on 
the  shores  of  this  continent  before  Columbus  (August 
ist,  1498),  and  even  previous  to  the  Cabots  (June  24th, 

H97").   ' 


48  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  pp.  195, 
200,  284,  293. 

48  apud  his  edit,  of  Ptolemy's  Geogr.  ; 
Lyons,  fol.,  1535  ;  recto  of  leaf  28. 

47  "  Fui  eletto  per  Sua   Altezza,  che  io 
fussi  in  esta  flotta,  per  aiutare  a  discoprire," 
apud  BANDINJ,  p.  6,  and  Grenville  codex, 
recto  of  the  second  leaf. 

48  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  p.  190. 

49  Storia   delta   Lett.    Ital.,   Vol.   Ti,  p. 
251  (edit,  of  Flor.,  1807). 

50  "  M.CCCCXCIJ.  xx  mensis  Maij   die," 
— St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of  b  5  ;   GRUNIGER'S, 
recto  of  D  ii;   LA  PLACE'S,  verso  of  D  7, 
GRYN^EUS'S,  Basle,  1532  and  1537,?.  155. 

61  Commcntaria  in  Sphteram  Sacro-Bos- 
c o ;  Lyons,  8vo,  1578,  cap.  in. 

52  "  xo.di  Maggio  1497," — BAND.,  p.  6; 
Grenv.  codex,  recto  of  second  leaf. 

"  riaggi,  P-  *9- 

64  "  xxvij.  vix  elapsis  diebus," — St.  Die 
edit.,  verso  of  b  5,  GRUN.,  recto  of  D  II; 
LA  PL.,  recto  of  D8;  GRYN.,  p.  155. 


66    «  AJ 

P-7- 


capo    di    37.    giorni" — BAND., 


57  "  cum  cc.xxij  captiuatis  personis.  xv. 
Octobris.  die.  Anno  dni  M.CCCC.LXXXX  ix. 
Ubi  lastissime  suscepti  fuimus  ac  vbi  eosdem 
captiuos  nostros  vendidimus," — St.  Die 
edit.,  recto  of  d  iii;  GRUN.,  verso  of  E  6; 
LA  PL.,  verso  of  E  7;  GRYN.,  p.  168. 

68  "15  di  Ottobre,  1498," — Viaggi,  p. 

49- 

59  "Adi  18.  di  Ottobre,  1498,"—^*,  p. 
36  (for  p.  32).   HERRERA  (Dec.  I,  lib.  IT.  c. 
2.),  ascribes  only  five  months  to  the  entire 
voyage ;   CHARLEVOIX    (Hist,   de  risle-Et- 
pagnolc)  twenty-five. 

60  As  we  will  have  no  other  opportunity 
of  mentioning  Cabot's  name,  we  beg  leave 
to  insert   in  this   place  several  overlooked 
authorities  concerning  his  memorable  voy 
age,  -vix. : 

ist.    The    Map    of  Juan    de    la    Cosa, 
dated  1 500,  which  was  discovered  by  Hum- 


6o 


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I  COf .  The  second  voyage  was  also  undertaken  for  the  King 
of  Spain,  probably  under  Vicente  Yanez  Pinzon  (Hum- 
boldf1}.  They  sailed  from  Cadiz,  one  day  of  May,  1489 
(Hylacomyluf1),  or  May  i6th,  1499  (Falori-Bandin?*) , 
or  May  i8th,  1499  (Canova?4).  Reached  land  after 
nineteen  days  (Hylacomylu&\  or  forty-four  (Valori-Ean- 
dini66),  or  on  the  twenty-third  day  (Canovaf7) .  Re 
turned  to  Cadiz,  after  a  month  and  a  half,  September  8th 
(Hylacomylus™,  Falori-Bandinfr},  or  June  8th  (Canovai70). 


boldt  in  the  library  of  Walcknasr,  and 
afterward  sold  to  the  Queen  of  Spain  for 
4,020  francs.  It  is  now  in  her  library,  at 
Madrid.  Fac-similes  have  been  published 
by  JOMARD  (Monuments  dt  la  Geographic , 
Paris,  fol.,  1854,  map  xvi);  GHILLANY 
(Gescbicbte  d.  Behaim,  Nuremb.,  410, 
1853) ;  RAMON  DE  LA  SAGRA  (Hist,  phys., 
Sec.,  dt  file  de  Cube;  Paris,  fol.,  1842); 
LELEWEL  (Geographic  du  Moyen-Age, 
Brux.,  3  vols.,  8vo,  1852,  atlas,  map  41)  ; 
HUMBOLDT  (Exam.  Crit.,  Paris,  ed.  of 
1836-8). 

2d.  ZIEGLER,  Lib.  de  regionibus  septen- 
trion.,  Antwerp,  8vo,  1542. 

3d.  The  map  quoted  by  Ortelius  in  his 
catalogue  of  authors  (TAeatrum,  Antwerp, 
fol.,  1570)  in  these  words  : 

"  Sebastianus  Cabotus  Venetus,  Vniuer- 
salem  tabulam ;  quam  impressam  seneis 
formis  vidimus,  sed  sine  nomine  loci,  & 
impressoris." 

(That  extremely  valuable  document,  in 
its  original  form,  or  an  inedited  map  of 
Cabot,  is,  we  are  informed,  on  exhibition 
in  one  of  the  halls  of  the  Bibliotheque  Im- 
piriale  of  Paris.  If  our  information  is 
correct,  would  it  not  be  worth  the  while  of 
some  enterprising  publisher  in  this  country 
to  have  it  engraved  ?  Perhaps  it  is  bold 
to  assert  that  the  patriotic  bibliophiles 
who  give  so  readily  enormous  prices  for 
such  trash  as  the  spurious  reprints  of  the 
Salem  Witchcraft  might  feel  tempted  to 
purchase  a  copy !) 

The  "  Scbastiano  Cabota.  Na-vigatione 
nelle  parte  settentrionali ;  Venice,  1583," 
included  in  the  early  catalogues  of  the 
Bodleian  library,  is,  we  scarcely  need  add, 
not  to  be  found  as  a  separate  work,  but 
only  in  the  second  volume  of  Ramusio  (ed. 
of  1583,  fol.  212).  Foscarini  (Letterat. 
•vcncx.  p.  438)  and  Tiraboschi  (Vol.  vii, 


p.  263),  had  already  shown  that  it  was 
erroneously  ascribed  to  Cabot ;  but  Mr. 
Biddle  (Memoir,  p.  327),  showed  that  it 
was  only  "  the  Journal  of  Stephen  Bur- 
rough  during  his  two  voyages  to  the  North 
east,  with  an  absurd  introduction  from 
some  anonymous  writer  at  Venice  !" 

The  reader  will  find  a  valuable  list  of 
works  relating  to  Cabot  in  a  note  to 
Humboldt's  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  pp. 
231,232. 

81  Exam.  Crit.,  Vol.  IT,  p.  200;  Vol. 
T,  p.  46.  VARNHAGEN,  Historia  General 
do  Brazil,  Rio  de  Janeiro  or  Madrid,  2 
vols.,  8vo,  1852;  D'AvEZAC,  considera 
tions  geogr.  sur  leftist,  du  Bresil,  Paris,  8vo, 
1857.  There  is  a  full  list  of  works  re 
lating  to  Pinzon,  Vespuccius,  and  Paria  or 
Brazil,  in  the  second  volume  of  UOyapoc 
et  VAmazone,  by  Gaetano  da  Silva,  Paris, 
8vo,  1861. 

83  "  M.CCCCLXXXIX  (sic)  Maij  die," — St. 
Die  edit.,  recto  of  d  iii ;  GRUN.,  verso  of 
E  6  ;  LA  PL.,  verso  of  E  7 ;  GRYN.,  p.  1 69 
— meaning,  evidently,  1499. 

68  "16.    di  Maggio   1499" — BAND.,  p. 
33;   Grenv.  codex,  verso  of  b.  ii. 

64  "  XTIII  di  Maggio," — ^iaggi,  p.  50 ; 
Letter  to  P.  F.  de  Medici,  apud  BANDINI, 
p.  65. 

86  "  xix  dies," — St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of 
d  iii ;  GRUN.,  verso  of  E  6 ;  LA  PL.,  verso 
of  E  7  5  GRYN.,  p.  169. 

86  "44.  giorni," — BAND.,  p.  33;  Grenv. 
codex,  verso  of  b  ii. 

87  "  al  capo  di  XXIIII  di," — -Viaggio,   p. 
51 ;  Letter  to  P.  F.  de  Medici,  apud  BAN 
DINI,  p.  65. 

88  "  viij.  mensis  Septembris," — St.  Die 
edit.,  recto  of  e  i ;   GRUN.,  verso   of  F  iii  ; 
LA  PL.,  recto  of  F  iii;  GRYN.,  p.  175. 

69  BANDINI,  p.  45. 

70  "  8  di  Giugno," — Vlaggl,  p.  81 


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61 


The  third  voyage  was  undertaken  for  the  King  of 
Portugal.  The  expedition  sailed  probably  under  Cabral 
(Humboldt11),  from  Lisbon,  May  loth,  1501  (Hylacomy- 
tus7*,  Valor  i-Bandimll\  or  May  ijth,  1501  (Canova?4), 
or  June  loth  ('Temporal).  Reached  land  August  iyth 
(Hylacomylus^j  Canovai),  or  August  ist  (Valori-Ban- 
dtm17),  or  August  yth,  I5OI78,  or  simply  after  a  voy 
age  of  sixty-four  days  (Barto/ozzi79}.  Returned  to  Lis 
bon,  after  a  voyage  of  sixteen  months,  in  1502  (Hy- 
lacomylus*0),  or  September  yth,  1502  (Valori-Bandin?1 , 
Canovai] . 

The  fourth  voyage  was  also  undertaken  for  the  King 
of  Portugal,  and  the  expedition  sailed  from  Lisbon, 
probably  under  Gonzales  Coelho  (Humboldt^^  Southey^}, 


71  Exam.    Crit.,    Vol.    v,    p.    5.      The 
reader   may   consult  with   advantage  con 
cerning  Cabral :   BARROS,  Dccadas;  Lisbon, 
8vo,  1778,  Dec.  i,  lib.  i,  cap.   305   MAF- 
FEI,   Histor.    Indica,   Cologne,   fol.,    1593, 
lib.  2 ;   FARIA  Y  SOUZA,  Asia  Portugueza, 
Lisb.,  fol,   1666;  Vol.  I,  cap.   5;   LAFI- 
TAU,    Conqaetes   des   Portugal!,    Paris,   410, 
1733. 

72  "  Die  Maij  decima.  M.cccc.  &  pri- 
mo," — St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of  e  ii ;   GRUN., 
recto  of  F  iiii ;    LA   PL.,   verso  of  F  iii ; 
GRYN.,  p.  176. 

78  "  10    di  Maggio,   1501,"  BAND.,  p. 

47- 

74  "13    di    Maggio,    1501,"   Viaggi,  p. 
101  ;  id.,  Duplicate  to  Soderini,  in    BAN- 
DINI,  p.  101. 

75  Historiale    description    de    f 'Afrique  ; 
Lyons,  fol.,    1556,    p.   466;    id.,   Paris,  4 
vols.,   8vo,  1830. 

78  "  xvij  scilicet  Augusti," — St.  Die  ed., 
verso  of  e  ii ;  GRUN.,  recto  of  F  iiii ;  LA 
PL.,  verso  of  F  iii  5  GRYN.,  p.  176  ;  ^iaggi, 
p.  102. 

77  "  Adi  i.  d'Agosto," — BANDINI,  p.  48. 

78  "  7.  di  Agosto  del  1501." — Duplicate 
to  Soderini,  in  BAND.,  p.  103. 

79  Riccrchc    istorico-critichc ;   Flor.,  410, 
1789,  p.  169.  _ 

80  "  XTI.    circiter    menses,   M.D.ij," — 
St.    Die    edit.,    recto    of  f  iii ;    GRUNIG., 
verso  of  F  6 ;  LA  PL.,  recto  of  F  6 ;  GRYN., 
p.  180. 


81  "7   di  Settembre  del   1502,"  BAND. 
p.  56;  Viaggi,  p.  109. 

82  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  p.  142. 

83  History  of  Brazil ;  Lond.,  410,  1810, 
Vol.  I,  p.  20. 

"  GONZALO  COELLO,  sabio  cosmografo 
Portugues,  que  fue  por  orden  del  rey 
Don  Man'l  de  Portugal  a  esplorar  y  re- 
conocer  los  puertos  de  la  America  nu- 
evamente  descubierta,  como  las  costum- 
bres  y  ritos  de  sus  naturales.  Salio  de 
Lisboa  mandando  una  Escuadra  de  seis 
navios  y  reconocio  con  juicio  sabio  y  ob- 
servacion  de  curioso  cuanto  era  digno  de 
saberse,  tomando  posesion  en  nombre  de 
su  Soberano  y  escribio  la  relacion  de  cuanto 
habia  visto,  que  presento  al  rey  Don  Juan 
2d  por  haber  muerto  su  Padre  cuando 
volvio.  Description  del  Brasil.  MS.  fol." 
— ALCEDO,  Biblioteca  Americana.  Cata- 
logo  de  los  Autores  que  han  escrito  de  la 
America  en  diferentes  idiomas.  1807,  2 
vols.,  MS.,  fol.,  Vol.  I,  page  208.  Private- 
library,  Providence  (Lord  Kingsborough's 
copy). 

The  reader  may  consult,  concerning 
Coelho's  voyages  : 

DAMIANO  DE  GOES,  Chronica  do  Joao 
II;  Lisbon,  fol.,  1567. 

P.  DE  MARJZ,  Dialogos  de  -varia  Historia  ; 
Coimbra,  8vo,  1594;  410,  1597;  Lisb., 
4to,  1674,  Vol.  ill. 

VASCONCELLOS,  Vida  del  Rey  D.  Juan 
II  ;  Madrid,  4to,  1639. 


62  -  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COf.  May  loth,  1503  (Hylacomylus^^  Valori-Eandini^  Canovai}. 
Was  wrecked,  August  loth,  on  the  coast  of  the  island 
of  San  Fernando  Noronha,  or  Peiiedo  de  San-Pedro,  or 
the  imaginary  island  of  Saint  Matthews.  Returned  to 
Lisbon,  June  28th,  1504  (Hylacomyluf*),  or  June  i8th, 
1504  (Valor  i-Bandini^^  Canovai}. 

How  can  we  account  for  these,  and  an  infinite  num 
ber  of  other  discrepancies  ?  They  are,  says  Humboldt87, 
"Ferret  du  desordre  de  la  redaction  et  des  gloses  ajou- 
tees  par  d'ignorans  ou  zeles  commentateurs." 

The  four  voyages  were  published  for  the  first  time 
together  in  a  kind  of  appendix  to  a  Latin  work  on  Cos 
mography88  by  one  Waldsee-muller,  #//#.$•  Hylacomylus,  in 
1507,  which  also  contains,  so  far  as  known,  the  princeps 
of  t\\z  first  and  fourth  voyages.  It  is  that  work  which 
we  quote  under  the  name  of  Hylacomylus. 

The  next  collection  of  the  four  voyages  is  in  Italian, 
and  seems  to  have  been  printed  at  Florence  about  the 
year  I5i689.  We  call  the  latter  the  Grenville  codex,  from 
its  last  possessor,  Mr.  Thomas  Grenville.  This  Italian 
collection  was  republished  by  Bandini90  and  Canovai91, 
from  a  printed  copy,  which  had  on  the  title  page  the 
name  of  Baccio  Valori,  one  of  the  first  librarians  of  the 
Laurentian  library  at  Florence.  We  call  Bandini's  text 
Valor  i-Bandini^  and  Canovai's  (which  we  must  quote,  as 
it  contains  new  readings  of  the  learned  abbe's  own 
manufacture) ,  Viaggi. 

In   Latin,   we  again    find    the  four    voyages    in    the 

OSORIO,    De    rebus    Emmanuelis  j    Lisb.,          B7  Exam.  Crit.,  Vol.  v,  p.  70. 
fol.,  1571,  frequently  reprinted.  8S  Cosmographies     introductio,    4to,    four 

A.  DO  CAZAL,  Corografia  Brasilica ;  Rio  editions    or    issues   at    St.    Die,    in    1507; 

de  Janeiro,  a  vols.,  4to,  1817.  Strasburg,  1509;  Lyons,  1510.    The  other 

84  "  Decima  ergo  Maij  die  M.D.iij  ;"-  -  editions  of  the  same  Cosmography   do  not 

St.  Die  edit.,  verso  of  f  iij  ;   GRUN.,  verso  contain  Vespuccius'  Voyages, 
of  F  6;   LA  PL.,  recto  of  F  6;   GRYN.,  p.          "  Lettera  di  Amerigo  uesfucci  delle  hole 

181;  "adi  10.  Maggio,  J5°3j"  BAND.,  p.  nuouamcntc  trouate   in   quattro  suoi  uiaggi, 

585  Viaggi,  p.  in.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco. 

88  "xxviij,  Junij.  M.D.mj.," — St.  Die         90  Vita  e  lettere   di  Amerigo   Vespucci } 

edit.,  verso   of  f5;   GRUN.,  recto  of  F8$  Flor.,  410,  1745,  PP-  I-IS3- 
LA  PL.,  verso  of  F  7;  GRYN.,  p.  183.  81  Viaggi   f   America   Vespucci;    Flor., 

"18.  di   Giugno,   1504,"  BAND.,  p.  8vo,    1817,   pp.    25-115,  with    dates   al- 

625  Viaggi,  p.  114.  tered. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  63 

various  editions  of  Grynaeus'  Novis  orbis9*,  and  abridged 
in  De  Bry's  Collections  ;  the  first  and  second  voyages  in 
the  Grands^,  the  third  and  fourth  in  the  Petits  Voy 
ages^.  A  peculiarity  of  De  Bry's  edition  is  the  interpo 
lation  of  the  word  America9*. 

The  second  and  third  voyages  alone  have  been  printed 
separately  in  the  form  of  plaquettes,  all  within  the  first 
eight  years  of  the  sixteenth  century,  in  France  and  Ger 
many,  but  only  in  Latin  and  German.  We  describe, 
infra,  sixteen  of  those  separate  editions  ;  fourteen  of 
which,  de  visu. 

Besides  the  account  of  the  third  voyage  published  in 
the  above-mentioned  collections,  there  are  two  others, 
one  of  which  has  been  frequently  republished.  The  lat 
ter  we  call  First  Duplicate.  It  is  by  far  the  most  in 
teresting,  was  probably  printed  before  all  others,  and 
contains  astronomical  diagrams,  and  descriptions  of  an 
immodest  character.  The  reader  will  find  it  in  Ra- 
musio96,  whose  extremely  valuable  collection  also  con 
tains  a  translation  of  the  third  and  fourth  voyages  as 
given  by  Hylacomylus,  but  not  the  first  two  voy 
ages,  which  he  promised  to  publish97,  the  MS.  having 
probably  been  lost  in  the  conflagration  which  destroyed 
the  printing  office  of  Thomas  Giunti,  at  Venice,  in 
I55798-  That  duplicate,  which  is  addressed  either  to 
Soderini  or  to  L.  P.  F.  de  Medici,  is  also  in  Zorzi's99, 
Madrignano's100,  RuchamerV,  Redouer's101,  Tempo- 

82  Novus    orbis   rcgionum    ac  insularum,  tota  America  reperiantur,"  page  1 1 ;  "mais 

•veteribus  incognitarum ;   Basle,   fol.,    1532,  cette   expression    ne    se    trouve    que    dans 

1537,   1555;    Paris,   fol.,    1532;    Rotter-  1'edition   des   de   Bry," — CAMUS,  Mimoircs 

dam,  8vo,   1616.      The    preamble   or  pre-  sur  la  Collection   dcs  grands  et   Petits  -vo-;- 

fatory  letter  is  only  to  be  found  in  the  edi-  ages ;   Paris,  410,  1802,  p.  140. 

tions  of  1555  and  1616.     It  is  wanting  in  98  Sommario  die  due  navigation! di  Ahie- 

the  following:  rigo  Vespucci ;  Raccolta,  Vol.  I,  p.  128. 

93  America  pars  decima.     Du<e  na-vigat.  9T  Raccolta,  Vol.  in,  p.  310. 

Dn.    Amend    Vcsputn ;   Oppenheim,  fol.,          98  FOSCARINI,    Delia    Lett.    Vcneziana 

1619.  Padoua,  fol.,  1752. 

94  Indite  orientalii  pars  undecima.      Da-          "  Paesi  nouam.  retro-v.,  cap.  114-123. 
arum  na'vig.  quas.     .     .     .    ann.  1501  Dn.  -00  Itinerar.    Portugal/.,    cap.     115—124, 
Americas  Vcsputius  instituit,  historia  ;    Op-  fol.  LXX. 

penheim,  fol.,  1619,  pp.  5-10.  101  Sensuyt  le  monde  d'Emcric  de  fcspuce, 

96  "  QiJ.'  cum  '^'s  comParari  possint  vix     fol.  LXXI. 


64  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ral's75,  Grynaeus's102,  Bandini's,  and  Canovai's  collec- 
tions. 

The  other  letters  ascribed  to  Vespuccius  are  all  mod 
ern  publications  The  first  is  a  duplicate  account  of 
the  second  voyage,  which  was  first  published  by  Ban 
dini103,  from  a  manuscript  in  the  Riccardiana  library. 

The  second  letter  gives  a  duplicate  account  of  the 
third  voyage,  and  was  printed  for  the  first  time  by  Bar- 
tolozzi78. 

The  third  is  a  letter  addressed  to  L.  P.  F.  de  Medicis, 
from  Cape  Verd,  June  4th,  1501,  and  published  from  a 
manuscript  in  the  Riccardiana,  by  the  Count  Baldelli104. 

There  is  a  fourth,  describing  Vasco  da  Gama's  voy 
age,  but  it  is  rejected  altogether  by  all  the  critics  since 
Bandini,  who  first  published  that  spurious  account. 

Vespuccius  certainly  wrote  a  great  deal105,  but  he  is  not 
the  author  of  the  accounts  of  his  voyages  which  have 
been  transmitted  to  us.  As  to  the  above-mentioned 
letters,  not  only  the  original  text  is  lost,  but  we  do 
not  even  know  in  what  language  they  were  originally 
written.  That  two  of  those  important  documents  were 
composed  at  Lisbon  does  not  admit  of  much  doubt, 
but  whether  in  Portuguese,  Spanish,  Italian  or  Latin, 
no  one  can  determine;  although  some  critics  endeavor 
to  satisfy  all  parties  by  asserting  that  the  first  two  were 
written  in  the  language  of  Spain,  and  the  last  two  in 

101  Na-vigationum  Albcrici  Vesputii  epi-  190-290)  ;  and  in  a  rehash  of  Canovai,  pub- 

tome,  p.  87,  ed.  of  1555.      We  do  not  find  lished  in  English,  New  Haven,  8vo,  1852. 

any  earlier   version  in  English  than  that  103  "  indirissssata  a  Lorenzo  di  Pier  Fran- 

which  is  in  the  third  volume  of  ROBERT  cesco  de  Medici,  Vita,  pp.    64-865   Cano- 

KERR'S  collection  5  Edinburgh,  8vo,  1811,  vai  substitutes  this  in  the  room  of  the  Va- 

pp.    342-382,    from    Hylacomylus's   text,  lori  or  Grenville   second  voyage   (Viaggi, 

In  German,  besides  Kerr's  version  of  the  pp.  50-69),  which  he  places   immediately 

Novus  Orbis,  we  think  that  only  the  du-  afterwards. 

plicate  of  the  third  voyage  is  inserted   in  lo4  //  Milione  di  Marco  Polo  ;  Flor.,  410, 

Voss,  Allcraltcstc  Nachricht  -von  der  ncuen  1827,  Vol.  I,  pp.  LIU,  note. 

Welt;  Berlin,   8vo,   1722,  while  the  four  106  POCCIANTI,  Catalog.  Script.  F/orent.  ; 

voyages  and  duplicates  are  in  the  German  Flor.,  410,  1589,  p.  10;  HUMBOLDT,  Exam. 

translation    of   Bandini,    Hamburg,   1748.  Crit.,  Vol.  iv,  p.  170,  sq.  for  extracts  from 

The  four  voyages   are   also    in    the    third  Vespuccius'  letters,  and  the  evidence  given 

volume  of  Navarrete's  Coleccion,  text  and  by  John  Vespuccio  (Americus's  nephew), 

translation    from   Griiniger's    edition    (pp.  in  the  Information,  NAV.,  Vol.  in. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  65 

that  of  Portugal.  Be  that  as  it  may,  the  Hylacomylus 
version  was  made  from  a  French  text :  "  de  vulgari 
gallico  in  latinum ; "  the  one  in  the  Itinerarium,  from 
the  Portuguese :  "  Fidus  interpres  presens  opus  e  Lusi- 
tano  italicum  fecit ; "  that  in  the  Unbekanthe  Landte, 
from  an  Italian  text,  which  itself  was  only  a  transla 
tion  from  the  Spanish :  "  Auss  hyspanier  sprache  ist 
discs  fiinfte  buchlein  in  die  welysche  sprache  gewandert, 
und  zu  letze  auss  der  welyschen  in  die  dewtschen  ge- 
bracht."  As  to  Lambert's  (No.  26),  Gourmont's  (No. 
28),  and  Otmar's  (No.  31)  editions,  they  all  are  "ex 
Italica  in  linguam  Latinam." 

After  a  diligent  study  of  all  the  original  documents, 
we  feel  constrained  to  say  that  there  is  not  a  particle  of 
evidence,  direct  or  indirect,  implicating  Americus  Ves 
puccius  in  an  attempt  to  foist  his  name  on  this  con 
tinent.  In  our  notice  of  the  various  editions  of  the 
Cosmographia  introductio  we  will  give  the  "  genesis"  of 
that  unjust  appellation.  We  have  now  to  mention  the 
leading  works  which  contain  assertions  for  or  against 
Vespuccius. 

The  first  attempt  to  tarnish  the  reputation  of  the 
Florentine  cosmographer  was  made  by  Schoner106,  in 
1533,  twenty-one  years  after  the  death  of  Vespuccius. 
It  was  repeated  with  increased  violence  by  Servetus46, 
Herrera107,  Fray  Pedro  Simon108,  Solorzano109,  Charle- 
voix110,  Stuvenius"1,  Totzen"1,  Robertson"3,  Meusel"4, 
Tiraboschi"5,  Formaleone"6,  Mufioz,  do  Cazal83  (the 

10*  Opusculum  geographicum  ;   Nuremb.,  na  Der  tuahre  und  erste  Entdecker ;  Got- 

4to,  1533,  Part  n,  caps,  i  and  xx.  ting.,  8vo,  1761. 

07  Decade  I,  lib.  vn,  cap.  5.  11S  History   of  America  $    London,   8vo, 

108  Conquhtas   Aistorialcs  ;    Cuenca,   fol.,  1826,  p.  49. 

1627,  Part  i,  pp.  18-26.  n4  Bibliotheca  historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  i, 

109  Ditputationes  de  Indiarum  jure ,•  Mad-     p.  265. 

rid,  fol.,  1629,  lib.  i,  cap.  iv.  11S  Storia  dtlla  Letter atur a  Italiana;  Vol. 

110  Histoire    de    ILle-Espagnole ;    Paris,     vi,  p.  186. 

410,  1730,  Vol.  i,  page  311.  ll*  Saggio  sulla  nautica antica  de'  Vene-z.^ 

111  Dissert,   de   uero    no-vi  orb.    invent.}     Venice,  410, 1783  ;  and  in  French,  Venice, 
Francf.,  8vo,  1714.  8vo,  1788. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  5  Of.     most  bitter  of  all),  Navarrete,  Santarem"7,  and  a  host  of 

.55—-.---..  others. 

The  Nova  Acta  eruditorum11*  cite  in  favor  of  Vespuccius 
one  "  Americi  Cinellius""9,  Vasari120,  Mellini121,  Alber- 
ti122,  Metellius123,  Manni124,  della  Rena125,  and  Hondius125; 
nearly  all  of  whom  are  taken  from  Bandini,  who 
quotes,  besides,  in  favor  of  his  hero,  Bocchi127,  Cluver128, 
Mariana129,  Genebrier'30,  Salvini'3',  "  Padre  della  Fio- 
rentina  erudizione,"  and  the  introuvable  Giov.  Matteo 
Toscano132;  to  which  list  we  must  add  the  poet  Barto- 
lomei133,  Ruscelli134,  J.  de  Lery135,  Natalis  de  Comiti- 
bus136,  Pighius137,  and  all  the  editions  of  Ptolemy's 


117  Rcchcrchcs  Hist.,  Critiques  et  Bibliogr. 
sur  Amtric  Vespuce  et  ses  -voyages ;  Paris, 
8vo,  n.  d.  5  translated,  Boston,  I2mo, 
1850. 

18  For  Aug.,  1749;  Leipz.,  4to,  p.  483. 

119  Is  it  not   Giovanni  Cinelli,  the  con- 
tinuator    of     Francesco     Bocchi    (Belleze 
della  cita  di  Firenze ;   Flor.,  8vo,   1677), 
who  is  intended  ? 

120  Le  vite  dt"  piit  excel,  pittori  j   Flor., 
4to,  1568,  Part  m. 

131  Descrixione  della  entrata  delta  regina 
Giovanna  d 'Austria  ;  Flor.,  410,  1566. 

These  three  last  works  are  chiefly 
quoted  for  the  portraits  of  Vespuccius,  or 
the  honors  paid  to  his  memory. 

144  Dcscrizzionc  di  tutta  Italia  ;  Bologna, 
fol.,  1550;  Venice,  410,  1553,  1568,  and 
1581. 

123  Preface  to  his  edition  of  OSORIUS, 
de  rebus  Emmanuel.;  Cologne,  8vo,  1574, 
'75,  '76,  '81,  '86. 

134  De  Florent.  Invent,  comment. ;  Fer- 
rara,  410,  1731,  cap.  42. 

l™De/la  Serie  de  gli  antic,  due.  df  Tos- 
cana  ,•  Flor.,  fol.,  1690;  410,  1764. 

139  Nova  Italia  Hodiernia  Descript.  ,- 
Leyden,  fol.,  1627. 

137  Libras  duos  Elogior.  quib.  Viri  aliqui 
Clarriss.  Florentini ;   Flor.,  410,  1667. 

138  Introduc.   in    Univers.    Geogr. ;    Ve 
nice,  r6mo,  1646;  Amst.,  4to,  1661,  lib. 
vi,  c.  xl,  n.  3. 

139  Historia,  lib.  xxvi,  cap.  HI. 

80  Chronographite  "  LL.  iv.  Priores  n."j 
Paris,  fol.,  1580;  Lyons,  fol.,  1599,  anno 
H97- 


181  Fasti  consolari  dell"  acad.  Fiorent.  ; 
Flor.,  410,  1717. 

133  Also  cited  by  SAXIUS  ( Onomasticon, 
Vol.  HI,  p.  14),  under  the  title  of  Peplus 
Italiee  L.  i.  n.  XLVI.  p.  414. 

133  U America,  poema  eroico  ;  Rome,  4to, 
1650. 

134  La  Gcograjia  di  Cl.  Tolomeo;  Venice, 
4to,  1561. 

136  Historia  Navigation,  in  Brasiliam, 
izmo,  1585. 

136  Universte  hist,  sui  temporis  ,•  Venice, 
4to,  1572. 

137  AZquinoctlorum  de  solstitior.  invent.  ,• 
Paris,  4to,  1520. 

BARCIA-PINELO  (Epitome,  col.  573) 
quotes  PIEDRA-HITA,  Historia  del  Nuevo 
Reino  de  Granada  [Antwerp,  fol.,  1688], 
lib.  i,  cap.  i,  fol.  2;  A.  DE  CALANCHA, 
Chronica  del  [ord.  de  S.  August,  en^  Peru 
[Barcelona,  fol.,  1638],  lib.  i,  cap.  4; 
GARCIA,  Origen  de  los  Indies  [Valencia, 
8vo,  1607;  Madrid,  fol.,  1729],  Proemio  ; 
and  CARDENAS  v  CANO,  [pseudonym  for 
BARCIA  himself],  Ensayo  Chronologico  [Ma 
drid,  fol.,  1723],  introd.  NEGRI  (Istoria, 
p.  31)  cites  GADIUS,  de  Serif  tor.  non  Ec- 
clesiast.  [Flor.  and  Paris,  fol.,  1648—49]  ; 
and  "  TH.  LANSIUS,  Consultatione  de  Prin- 
cipatu  inter  Prov.  Europ." 

The  reference  in  SAXIUS  (Onomasticon, 
Vol.  in,  p.  14)  to  MAGIRUS,  Eponymol. 
Crit.,  leads  only  to  DE  THOU. 

MR.  CALEB  GUSHING  (Reminiscences  of 
Spain,  Vol.  n,  p.  235,  sy.)  quotes  ROCHA 
PITTA,  Hist,  da  America  Portugueza  [Lisb., 
fol.,  1730],  p.  24;  LIPSIUS,  Physiol.  Stoic.; 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  67 

Geography,  from  Beneventanus'  (1508)  to  that  edited 
by  the  unfortunate  Servetus. 

All  of  which  authorities,  pro  et  con,  are  more  than 
counterbalanced  by  the  great  Humboldt,  who,  in  his 
Examen  Critique,  Cosmos1^,  and  in  the  Bulletins  de  la  Societe 
de  Geographie1™,  has  shown  conclusively  that  no  proof 
whatever  has  yet  been  adduced  to  incriminate  Americus 
Vespuccius. 

The  assaults  on  the  reputation  of  the  Florentine 
cosmographer  are  generally  bitter  and  periodic.  A  re 
markable  recrudescence  was  inadvertently  caused  to 
wards  the  end  of  the  last  century  by  the  French  Em- 
bassador  at  Florence,  Count  de  Durfort,  who,  in  1788, 
offered  a  premium  to  be  conferred  by  the  Academy  of 
Cortona  for  the  best  eulogium  of  Americus  Vespuc 
cius,  and  which  was  awarded  to  Stanislaus  Canovai. 
The  boldness  of  the  Abbe's  oration140  brought  a  reply 
from  an  anonymous  writer141,  followed  by  a  rejoinder, 
ascribed  to  Canovai141,  a  complete  refutation  by  Barto- 
lozzi14',  a  sur-rejoinder  by  the  laureate144,  another  reply 
by  Llorente145,  and  a  number  of  other  pamphlets,  keep 
ing  up  the  fire  until  the  publications  of  Napione, 
Belloro,  &c.,  and  even  afterwards.146  Judging  from 
some  gentle  hints  lately  given  by  the  English  and  Amer 
ican  periodicals,  we  seem  to  be  threatened  with  a  re- 

[Wesel,   1675],  lib.   n,  dis.    19,  t.  iv,  p.  m  Annotations  sincere   del?  elogio  pre- 

947    [and   Leyden,    I2mo,   1644,  Vol.  n,  miata  di  Amerigo   Vespucci  per  una  seconda 

p.  233]  ;    BARL/EUS,  Res  gestte  in  Brasilia  editions;  in  SANTAREM,  p.  150. 

[Cleves],  I2mo,  1660,   p.  24;   ENSL,   In-  14a  Lettera  allo   Stampat.   Sig.   P.   Alle- 

dite  accident.  Histor. ;  Cologne,  1 2mo,  1 6 1 2,  grini,  a  name  delf  autorc  del?  clogio  prem. 

p.  130;   PIZARRO,  Varones  illustres  [Mad-  di  Am.  Vespucci ;  Flor.,  8vo,  1789. 

rid],    fol.,   1639,  p.   50.       To  which   list  143  Apologia   delle   Ricerche   istorico-crit- 

may  be  added  Vossius,  De  Natura  Arti-  iche  ,•   Flor.,  8vo,  1789. 

urn  ,•    Amsterd.,    fol.,    1696,    p.    535    DE  144  Difensa  d*  Amerigo  Vespuccio  ;   Flor., 

THOU,  Histoire  uni-verselle  5  London,   410,  I2mo,  1796,  15  pp. 

Vol.  i,  p.  3.  146  Saggio     Apologetico,     degli    storici    e 

138  Oceanic  Disco-veries,^fo\.  n,  exhaust-  conquistatori  Spagn.  dell"  America;  Florence 

ive  note  at  the  close  of  the  chapter.  and  Naples,  8vo,  1796. 

189  Paris,  for  Dec.,  1835,  p.  411.  l4*  TRUCCHI,     Dei  primi    scopritori    del 

140  Elogio    d' Amerigo    Vespucci  ;    Flor.,  nuo-vo   continente    Americano  ,•    Flor.,    8vo, 

4to,  1788  ;  id.,  1790.  1842,  80  pp. 


68  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

lapse.     Let  us  hope  that  this  time  some  tangible  facts 
will  be  adduced. 


Direct  reference!  :  I"  Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  766. 

Bibliotheca  Bronvniana,  No.  u. 

Serapeum  for  January   ist,  1861. 

Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  461,  No.  8376.  (?) 

Notes  on  Columbus,  A,  page  28. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1154,  although  the  spelling  is  somewhat 
different,  and  he  ascribes  to  the  plaquette  forty-two  lines  in 
stead  of  forty. 


2  3 .     VESP  UCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 


ALBERICVS  VESPVTIVS  LAVRENTIO||PE- 
TRI  DE  MEDICIS  SALVTEM  PLVRI-||MAM 
DICIT.II 

Then  the  text  on  the  same  page,  beginning  with  a  capital  S  in  an 
ornamented  wood-cut. 

*HC*  Sm.  410,  sine  loco  aut  anno,  four  leaves ;  forty-two  lines  in  a 
full  page,  text  in  black  letter,  no  signatures.  The  last  page 
has  at  the  top  the  sentence  :  "  Ex  italica,"  &c.,  &c.  ;  then 
"  LAVS  DEO,"  followed  by  the  triangle. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Dirtct  references  :(  Serapeum  for  January  1st,  1861. 
\  Notes  on  Columbus,  D,  page  29. 


24.     VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


JKttttfrtttf 


tUiS  Haurentio  ^etrt||tre  metricis 
Saiutem  plutimam  trtctt.H 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  69 

*.,.*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  four  leaves;  forty  lines  in  a  full     I 
page,  no  signatures.     The  verso  of  the  last  leaf  has  twenty-six 
lines  of  text,  then  the  sentence  :  "  Ex  Italia"  (j*V),  and   at 
the  end  : 


(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  rtftrtnctf  :  (  Serapcum  for  January  1st,  1861. 
\  Notes  on  Columbus,  E,  page  30. 


2  5.     FESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

c  Mundus  nouus  \\ 


c  Mundus  nouus  de  natura  & 

r  ceterte  itr  generis  gentle  (jue  in  nouo 
opera  r  impenfis  ferenittimi  ^ottugallie 
fuper  [«v]  annis  inuento.H 
(E  &lfcericus  befputius  Hautenti  opetri  tre  ||  metric 
g>aiutem  plutimam  tricit.H* 


Sm.  8vo,  ^/W  anno  aut  loco,  eight  leaves  ;  thirty  lines  in  a  full 
page  ;  no  water-mark  ;  very  large  ornamented  initials  ;  no 
diagram;  only  one  signature,  which  is  on  the  second  leaf,  viz.  : 
Aij.  The  last  page  has  sixteen  lines  of  text,  the  sentence, 
"  Ex  Italica  .  .  .  ,"  and  : 

CHaus  tre0.ll 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Direct  references  :  (  Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  page  766. 
\  Notes  on  Columbus,  G,  page  30. 


*  Anglice  :  The  New  World.  Touch-  discovered  through  the  efforts  and  at  the 
ing  the  nature,  customs  and  other  things,  expense  of  the  Illustrious  King  of  Portu- 
concerning  the  people  of  the  new  world  gal  in  former  years. 


jo  Bibliotbeca  Americana. 

5 Of.  26.    VESPUCCIUS    (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

~  JUbmr9  ttffjmm9  laurftio  H 

petri  francifcide  medicis  Salutem  plurima 
dicit  || 

Then  within  a  border  Felix  Baligault's  mark,  viz. :  two  monkeys 
at  the  foot  of  a  tree,  from  which  hangs  a  kind  of  carpet-bag,  with 
the  word: 


and  below  : 

Jd)cm  UmbiTt 

*5|e*  Sm.  410,  title  and  text,  six  leaves,  in  Roman  type,  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  blank.  The  sentence,  "  ex  italiaca  \sic\  .  .  ."  oc 
curs  at  the  end  of  the  text.  Forty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Jehan  Lambert  exercised  his  art  at  Paris  from    1493 
to  1514. 

Direct  references:  f  CAMUS,  M'emoires  sur  De  Dry,  page  12,9. 

DIBDIN,  Library  Companion,  (zd  edit.),  Vol.  I,  page  380,  note. 
Bibliotheca    Gren-villiana,  page    766,   and    BRUNET,   Vol.  v,    col. 
1155,  line  17,  describe   only  a  copy  of  this   No.   26,  but  with  a 

spurious  title. 
Notts  on  Columbus,  B,  page  29. 


2  7  .     VESP  UCCIUS  (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


Then  the  complicated  mark  and  mottoes  of  Denys  Roce. 
Verso  of  the  title  page  : 


ire  natura  moriitf  et  ceterte  to  ge||nms  gette  q  in 
nouomutro  opa  Iim||peni8  tiunnittimi  portugaliie 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  71 

tegisllfupetiottfws  annte  tnueto  Elfceti- 1|  eug 
putius  Hautetui  petti  tre  me||tricte  Salutem 

mam  tricitll 


*#*  izmo,  twenty-nine  lines  to  a  full  page.  An  imperfect  copy, 
containing  only  five  leaves,  sold  at  an  auction  in  London, 
June,  1865.  This  heretofore  unknown  Paris  edition,  of  which 
fragments  only  remain,  was  once  the  property  of  M.  Libri, 
and  is  now  in  the  British  Museum. 

"  Denis  Roce  ou  Rosse,  dont  nous  avons  des  impres 
sions,  a  imprime  a  Paris,  depuis  1490  jusqua  1500," 
says  Santander,1  yet  the  Pharsalia  of  Peter  Desponte, 
so  much  prized  by  bibliophiles,  bears  the  imprint : 
Parrhisis,  per  Guielmu  Lerouge,  Expensis  Dionissii  Roce, 
MDXII"  together  with  a  printer's  vignette,  which  is 
identical  with  that  in  the  present  copy  of  Ves-puccius. 


2  8  .     FESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUSy-Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


Then  the  mark  of  "  (gtlleg    tie 

Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 


JBe  natura  et  morituis  et  ceteris  itr  ge-  II  net  is  gen=: 
tifque  in  nouo  mutro  opera  Urn  [>]  Upenfis  feren== 
iffimi  portugallie  regis  fu-llperioritus  annis  inueto 
Eltericug  TrJefpu  ||  tins  Hautetio  petti  fce  metricis 
g>alutem||plutimam  tieitll 


1  Dictionnaire  Bibliogr.,  Vol.  i,   p.  231.     of  the  Alphabttum  gr<tcum  of  1507.     See 

2  It  is  the  same  which  adorns  his  edition      BRUNET,  Vol.  I,  col.  198. 


72  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COf  •          Then  the  text,  which  ends  on  verso  of  the  last  leaf  with  : 

(I  LAVS  DEO  1| 


***  Very  small   8vo,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  eight   leaves,  thirty-one 
lines  in  a  full  page.     An  elegant  book  ;  unique  copy  thus  far. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


We  are  inclined  to  affix  a  comparatively  late  date  to 
this  edition  of  what  seems  to  us  the  first  duplicate  of 
Vespuccius'  third  voyage.  Gilles  de  Gourmont  was  a 
Paris  printer  of  great  renown.  The  French  are  in 
debted  to  him  for  their  first  Greek  and  Hebrew  edi 
tions,  and  for  the  publication  of  the  earliest  book  de 
scribing  public  pageantry  with  illustrations'.  We  can 
find  no  dated  work  of  his  bearing  an  earlier  imprint 
than  1507.  He  exercised  his  art  as  late  as  1527.  Mr. 
Brunet4  says  that  this  Vespuccius  "  doit  etre  de  1'annee 
1504  a  peu  pres." 

Direct  references:  (  Libri  Catalogue,  1859.  « 

-j  *  Manuel,  Vol.  v,  col.  1155. 
(^  Notes  on  Columbus,  F,  page  30. 


VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS,— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

jit  it  irii  110  H0UU0  ii 

(EBe  natura  et  nwrtfwg  r  eeterts  ft  gn!s  getx 
pe  inouo  mutro  opera  r  impefis  ferenifft 
tugailie  regisi  fupmorttus  ants  tnuento  II 

^litertcus  befputius  Hautetto  tre  metrtcts 
pitmmafctettll 

Then  the  text. 


8  Du    Puys'    Tryumphantc    et    solemnelle     at  Bruges,  in  1515)  ;  folio,  no  date  (Paris), 
entree  (of  Charles,  Archduke  of  Austria,     thirty-three  woodcuts. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  73 

*jjl*  410,  sine  anno  out  loco,  four  leaves,  forty-four  lines  to  a  full 
page  ;  on  recto  of  the  fourth  leaf  nineteen  lines  of  text ;  then 
the  sentence  "  Ex  italica  .  .  ."  (from  which  Brunet  omits 
several  words),  then  : 

(EUaus*  fceo.  || 

On  the  last  leaf  is  the  mark  of  Wm.  Vorsterman,  of  Antwerp,  as 
given  in  the  Bibliophile  Beige1,  which  edition  is  nevertheless  supposed 
(from  the  type)  not  to  have  been  printed  at  Antwerp,  but  by  some 
printer  on  the  Lower  Rhine,  and  that  Vorsterman  had  his  mark  added 
to  give  the  book  currency  in  the  Netherlands.  Water-mark,  a  kind 
of  pitcher. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Humboldt,  in  describing  the  copy  in  the  Gottingen 
Library,  expresses  the  opinion  that  the  woodcut  repre 
senting  the  double-headed-eagle  escutcheon  with  the 
three  towers,  "  parait  annoncer  le  regne  de  Philippe  II, 
fils  de  1'empereur  Maximilien,  ou  de  Charles  V ; "  yet 
the  same  woodcut  is  also  in  the  rare  Noble  science  des 
joueurs  despee,  which  bears  the  imprint  of  "  Lan  mil  cinq 
cens  et  xxxvin." 

Direct  rtfertnces :  (  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  page  7. 
BRUNET,  Vol  v,  col.  1155. 
Paelinck  Catalogue,  Brux.,  1860. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  H,  page  31. 


VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  fin  t  leaf: 

m.  i,:  PH. 


ib,  for  verso  ?]  EUjertcus  befpuctug  Haurentto 

&e  melltucis  falutem  plurimatn  fcidt  ||  jE?$Jp  eriori- 

iM8—  in  Bl.  2a:  ip^a^—  ijatentes  Bl.  ab:  in—  inn 

Bl.  3*  :  ttUtaMliUttl  —  Figur.  wie  bei  Nr.  II  [our  No. 
22]  angegeben.  Bl.  3b  :  $0gt—  guflmant  Bl.  4*  :  Figur. 
wie  bei  Nr.  I  [our  No.  23]  und  II  —  ea  Hatl0 
Bl.  4b  weiss." 

1  Vol.  v,  page   301. 
IO 


74  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

"45  zeilen  auf  der  vollen  Seite.  Schlussworte  aller 
drei  Ausgaben  (ohne  Abkiirzungen  und  abweichende 
Interpunction)  :  '  3Qx  jjtalica/  &c." 

(SERAPEUM1.) 

We  copy  the  above  verbatim  et  literatim,  leaving  it 
to  the  reader  to  decipher  its  mysterious  abbreviations. 
This  extremely  rare  Vespuccius  is  in  the  Mercantile  Li 
brary  of  Hamburg.  The  others  mentioned  in  the  same 
number  of  the  Serapeum  we  describe  supra  et  infra,  from 
original  copies  and  a  fac-simile. 

3  !•     VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Jllmrtus  Hmw0n 

Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 

JUb*rtni0  ucspn  rtns  jSm- 

falutem  plurimam 


Verso  of  the  fourth  leaf: 

jopnes   otmar  :   bintrelice   tmpreffit 
quingentefimo  parto.  || 


*#*  410,  four  unnumbered  leaves  ;  in  every  respect  like  No.  22, 
with  the  exception  of  the  above  colophon,  which  is  inserted 
in  place  of  the  words  Laus  deo. 

(Private  Libr.  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Dirtet  references  :  (  ZAP*,  Augsb.   Buchdruck.,  Vol.  II,  page  1  6,  and  Annal.  Typogr.t 

\       Page  49- 
j    PANZIR,  Annulet  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  133. 

Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  908. 

NAVARRETE,  Co/eccion,  Vol.  in,  page  186. 

Bibliotheca  Grenvii/iana,  page  766. 

Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  No.  IO. 

TERNAUX,  No.  6. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1154. 

Notes  on  Columbus,  C,  page  29. 

1  For  January,  1861. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  75 

3  2.    ANONYM.— "  Libretto  de  tutta  le  navigatione  de  Re    *  5°4" 
de  Spagna  le  ifole,  et  terreni  novamente  trovati,   ftampato  = 
in  Venezia  da  Albertino  Vercellefe  nel  1504."* 

(ZURLA1.) 

Or, 

"  Libretto  de  tutta  le  Navigazione  del  Re  di  Spagna 
delle  Ifole,  e  Terreni,  nuovamente  fcoperti.  Per  Al 
bertino  Vercellefe  di  Lifona  a  di  10  Aprile  1504,  4." 

(CANCELLIERJ1.) 

"  II  a  etc  vu  par  Foscarini,  Zurla  et  1'abbe  Morelli," 
says  Humboldt*.  Brunet  states4,  on  the  authority  of 
Morelli,  however,  that  it  is  only  "une  traduction  en 
dialecte  venitien,  par  Angelo  Trivigiano  de  la  premiere 
decade  latine  d'Anghiera."  The  letter  (apud  Morelli) 
in  which  Trivigiano  confesses  that  he  has  copied  and 
translated  into  the  language  of  everybody  the  "  verbose" 
account  of  Columbus'  voyages ;  and  Anghiera's  bitter 
complaints5  when  brought  together,  seem  to  fasten  the 
charge  of  plagiarism  on  Trivigiano ;  but  there  are 
several  circumstances  which  may  lead  to  a  contrary 
opinion.  In  the  first  place,  Trivigiano  was  Chancellor 
to  the  Venetian  Embassy,  and  of  course  a  frequenter  of 
the  Court ;  Anghiera,  by  his  position  as  preceptor  of 
the  royal  pages,  was  also  a  courtier,  and  being  likewise 
an  Italian  by  birth,  he  must  have  known  Trivigiano. 
If  so,  how  is  it  that  Anghiera  calls  his  plagiarist  "  Aloy- 
sius  Cadamostus?"  In  the  second  place,  there  is  at 
least  one  passage  in  the  first  Decade6,  viz.  :  "  Interro- 
gati  a  me  nautae  (qui  Vicentium  Agnem  Pinzonum 
fuerant  comitati)  an  antarcticum  viderent  polum," 
which,  according  to  Humboldt,  indicates  a  redaction 

*  Anglice :  A  short  relation   of  all   the  owte  of  the  three  first  bookes  of  my  first 
navigations    of  the    King    of  Spain,    the  Decade  -  -  -  -  supposinge  that  I  woolde 
islands    and    countries    newly    discovered,  neuer  haue  publysshed  the  same" — (Eden'i 
Printed  in  Venice  by  Albertino  Vercellese  transl.,  London,   410,    1555,   and    1612); 
[di  Lisona],  in  1504.  Decade  n,  Lib.  vu  and  vm. 

*  "  But  he  stoule  certeyne  annotacions  *  Lib.  ix. 


7  6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1C  04.    of  a  date  later  than  1505,  whilst  the  Libretto  was  pub- 
lished  as  early  as  1  504. 

This  work,  which  seems  to  be  now  lost,  has  been  the 
prototype  of  all  subsequent  collections  of  voyages,  down 
to  all  the  reprints  of  the  Novus  orbis,  in  which  it  is  sup 
posed  to  have  been  inserted  and  translated. 

Dirtct  rtftrencci  :  f  1  Di  Marco  Polo  t  dtgll  altri  viaggiatori  Veneziani,  Vol.  n,  page 

1  08,  note. 
[   s  Disscrtazioni,  page  138,  on  the  authority  of  the  Aggiunt.  alia  Eibl. 

Volantt  del  Cinelli  ;  "  Scanzia"  xxxin,  page  1  60. 
1  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  page  77. 
*  Manuel,  Vol.  I,  col.  294. 
NAPIONE,  Delia  patria,  &c.,  page  138. 
MORELLI,  Lettera  raritsima,  page  43. 

33*     ^ESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Wan  ber  item  grfunniie 
We  tool»*  SLSS 

ben  ^riftcuU^cu  ^u  ||nig  don  ^ortiirjaH,  iuitnuDcrbnrlid) 
erfunben.il 

Then  woodcut  filling  the  rest  of  the   page,  representing  the  King 
of  Portugal,  with  sceptre  and  escutcheon,  illuminated. 

Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 


gaurrntta  ^etri  ftrancif  -- 


mcbici0  nil 

Recto  of  the  sixth  leaf,  after  fourteen  and  a  half  lines  of  text  : 

Itttcin  ift  bift  miffftue  in  Icittfrf)  ge^ogeanf^  bem 
^lar  bag  ban  ^tariff  fam  \\\\\  maien  mo  net  nad) 
geburt  ^ttnfft$en|nn||bert  bnnb  §unffjar.|| 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  77 

r  Wedrittft  tjn  9luremBurg  ||  burrf)  SBoIff  gating  ||  §ue-    1505. 

Bet.  ||* 

Then  three  escutcheons. 

*#*  Sm.  410,  six  leaves,  verso  of  the  last  blank ;  thirty-seven  linei 
in  a  full  page. 

(Mercantile  Library,  Hamburg.) 

There  is  a  remarkable  fac-simile  made  by  Mr.  Pilin- 
ski,  a  Polish  artist  residing  at  Paris. 

Direct  references  :(  Serafeum  for  January,  1861  (No.  nr). 
\  Franck's  Catalogue,  Paris,  1865. 

34.     VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^oubmtdtU)  grfitnbcn 


burdj  ben  <£repttadjett||ftttti8 

tu.qal  luuuberbalid)  erfuttben.|| 

Then,  woodcut  as  in  the  above. 

*,,,*  410,  sine  loco,  title  I,  seven  unnumbered  leaves,  two  signatures, 
viz. :  A  iii  and  A  iiii.  Last  word  on  reverse  of  the  title : 
QHiliClt  *  thirty-five  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  This  German  account  of  the  third  expedition  of  Vesputius  in  1501 
is  not  only  prior  to  that  in  my  library  of  Leipsick,  1506,  but  is  quite 
a  different  version  from  that  of  1506,  and  is  without  the  division  into 
chapters  which  was  subsequently  adopted." 

(MS.  note  in  the  Grenville  copy.) 

The  length  of  the  lines  in  the  title  page  shows  this  to 
be  a  different  issue  from  No.  33. 

*  Anglice :  Concerning  the  newly  and  This  epistle  has  been  translated  from 

wonderfully  discovered  region  which  may  the  Latin  into  German,  from  a  copy 

well  be  called  a  world,  by  the  Christian  which  came  from  Paris  in  the  month  of 

King  of  Portugal.  May,  in  the  year  of  Christ's  birth,  1505. 

Alberic  Vesputius  presents  his  respects  Printed  at  Nuremberg  by  Wolffgang  Hue- 

to  Laurent  Peter  Francis  de  Medicis.  ber. 


7  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

35*  ^LBERTINI  (FRANCIS  DE)—(C  De  Mirabilibus  novae, 
&  veteris  Urbis  Romas.  Opus  editum  a  Francifco  de 
Albertinis  Clerico  Florentine,  tribus  Libris  divifum, 
dicatumque  Julio  II.  Pontif.  Max.  ;  Romas  per  Joan- 
nem  de  Befichen  An.  1505." 

(NEGRI1.) 

Although  the  above  title  is  given  with  a  certain  mi 
nuteness,  we  are  not  at  all  prepared  to  admit  it  as  authen 
tic.  The  name  of  the  printer  imparts  to  the  work  a 
suspicious  appearance.  It  is  not  known  that  John 
Besicken  printed  at  Rome  alone  after  1496,  or  even  in 
partnership  with  Martinus  of  Amsterdam  after  1501.* 

See  infra. 

36.  COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER)—  Copia  de  la  Lettera  per 
Columbo  mandata  a  li  Sereniffimi  Re  et  Regina  di 
Spagna  :  de  le  infule  et  luoghi  per  lui  trouate. 

Verso  : 

Conftantio  Bayuera  Breflano  ||  Al  Magnifico  et  Clar- 
iflimo  Francefco  ||  Bragadeno  Podefta  di  BreiTa  S. 
Colophon  : 
Stampata  in  Venetia  (a  nome  de  Conftantio  Bayuera 

citadino   di   Breffa)  per  Simone   de  Louere.  a   di  7  di 
Mazo.  1505.  cum  priuilegio.* 

*#*  Small  410,  eight  leaves,  the  last  of  which  is  blank  ;  text  in 
black  letter. 


1  Istor.  de  Fiorent.  Scrittori,  p.  1  8  1  .  Constancio   Bayuera   of  Brescia    to   the 

a  SANTANDER,     Dictionnaire     Bibliogr.,  magnificent  and  illustrious  Francesco  Bra- 

Part  i,  p.  153.  gadeno,  Podesta  of  Brescia. 

*  Anglice  :  Copy  of  a  letter  of  Columbo          Printed  at  Venice  for  Constancio  Bay- 

written  to  the  most  illustrious  King  and  uera    (citizen    of  Brescia),    by    Simon    de 

Queen  of  Spain,  concerning  the  islands  and  Lovere,  March  yth,   1505.     With  Privi- 

countries  discovered  by  him.  lege. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  79 

Prompted  by  the  success  of  Vasco  da  Gama's  voyage,  I  5° 5' 
Columbus,  fitting  out  a  new  expedition,  sailed,  taking  —= == 
with  him  his  brother  Bartholomew  and  his  own  son  and 
future  historian,  Fernando,  May  9th,  1502,  from  Cadiz 
with  four  small  caravels.  After  a  voyage  of  only  twenty- 
five  days,  the  Admiral  reached  what  is  supposed  to  be 
the  island  now  called  Martinique  ;  discovered,  July 
3Oth,  the  unimportant  island  of  Bonacca,  near  the  Bay 
of  Honduras  ;  sailed  along  the  Veragua  coast,  hoping 
yet  to  find  the  Ganges,  the  kingdom  of  the  Great  Khan, 
and  the  precise  locality  of  Paradise.  After  a  succession 
of  shipwrecks,  mutinies,  and  manifold  misfortunes,  he 
set  sail  for  Spain,  September  i2th,  landing  finally  at  San 
Lucar,  November  yth,  1504,  when  he  learned,  to  his 
great  sorrow,  that  his  best  friend  and  protectress,  Isa 
bella,  had  died. 

The  above  is  a  description  of  the  events  of  this  voy 
age  (which  was  Columbus'  fourth  and  last),  only  to 
July  yth,  1503;  and  is  dated  from  Jamaica.  It  was 
originally  written  in  Spanish.  There  is  still  a  manu 
script  copy  in  that  language,  either  in  the  library  of  the 
Cuen9a  College  at  Salamanca,  or  in  the  Lonja  of  Seville. 
Navarrete  published  it  in  his  valuable  Colecdon1.  We 
have  the  authority  of  Pinelo2  for  the  assertion  that  it 
was  printed ;  but  no  such  Spanish  edition  has  yet  been 
found.  An  Italian  translation,  however,  either  from  that 
printed  original  or  from  a  MS.,  was  published  in  Italy 
very  soon  after  the  return  of  Columbus;  it  is  the  present 
No.  36. 

The  latter  had  long  been  forgotten  when  Morelli,  the 
modest,  obliging  and  erudite  librarian  of  the  St.  Mark 

1  Vol.  i.  pp.  296-313.  We   have   seen   it  stated  that  Fernando 

8  "  Hallase  otra  Carta  del  mismo  Colon,  Colombo  also  asserts  that  the  account  of 

escrita  en  Jamaica,  a  7.  de  Junio  (sic)  de  his  father's  third  voyage  was  printed.      We 

IS°3-    1ue    ^ue    su    vltimo   Viage ;    de    el  have  examined  from  chapter  LXXXVIII  to 

qual,  es  Re/acion,  embiada  a  los  Reies  Ca-  the    end  of  the  Historic  for  the  purpose  of 

tolicos,  imp.  en   4  ...  La  impresa  estaba  finding  such    a    reference  ;   and    although 

en  la  Librcria   de  Don  Juan  de   Soldier-  the  last  twenty  chapters  are  devoted  exclu- 

na."   BARCIA-PINELO,  Epitome,  Vol.  n,  col.  sively  to  that  remarkable  voyage,  we  failed 

565.     LEON  PINELO,  p.  61,  gives  Julio.  to  discover  any  allusion  to  a  printed  account. 


8o  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Library  at  Venice,  corrected  the  text  of  Simon  de  Lo- 
vere's  edition,  and  republished  it  in  1810  under  the  title 
now  so  frequently  quoted  of  Lettera  rarissima1.  This 
reprint  contains  notes  and  extracts  of  the  utmost  interest, 
among  which  the  reader  will  notice  the  curious  biographi 
cal  sketch  of  Christopher  Columbus,  from  the  Por- 
tolano  of  Coppo  da  I  sola  (see  infra),  and  the  letter,  dated 
Granada,  August  2ist,  1501,  and  addressed  to  Mali- 
piero  by  Angelo  Trivigiano,  Secretary  of  Domenico 
Pisani,  Venetian  Embassador  to  the  Court  of  Spain4. 

Bossi  reprinted  Morelli's  version,  which  is  also  in 
Urano's  French  edition  of  Bossi,  and  in  Daelli's  Biblio 
theca  rara*.  Mr.  Major  has  inserted  the  Spanish  text 
and  an  English  translation  in  his  Select  Letters.  We 
copy  our  title  from  Brunet. 

Dirtct  refertnctt :  f  *  Bassano,  8vo,  1810,  and   Oferette,  Venice,  8vo,  1820,  Vol.  i,  p. 

*43t  .'?• 
I      Magasin  Encyclopidique  (MILLIN'S),  for   i8ia,  Vol.  i,  pp.  133- 

a38. 

N.  Y.  Syilacio,  Appendix,  page  Ixi. 
*  Lcttere  autografe,  Milan,  1 8  mo,  1863,  pp.  115—140. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  167. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  228. 
Notes  on  Columbia,  page  127. 

4  It  is  as  follows  :  sara    presto  uno    anno    che    siamo    fuora. 

"  lo  ho  tenuto  tanto  mezzo,  che  ho  preso  Circa  il  Trattato  del  Viaggio  di  detto  Co- 

pratica  e  gran  amicizia  con  il  Colombo  j  il  lombo,  uno  valentuomo  1'  ha  oomposto,  et 

quale  al  presente  si  attrova  qui  in  gran  des-  e  una  diceria  molto  longa.     L'  ho  copiata, 

dita,    mal   in  grazia  di  quest!   Re,   e   con  e   ho   la   copia   appresso   di  me ;   ma   e  si 

pochi  denari.      Per  suo  mezzo  ho  mandate  grande,  che  non  ho  modo  di  mandarla,  se 

a  far  far  a  Palos,  che  e  un  luogo  dove  non  non   a  poco  a  poco.     Mando  al  presente 

abita,  salvo  che  marinari  e  uomini  pratichi  alia  Magn.  V.  il  primo  libro,  quale  ho  tras- 

di  quel  viaggio  del  Colombo,  una  Carta  ad  latato  in  volgare    per  maggior  sua   como- 

instanza    della    Magnificenza    Vostra;    la  dita.     II  compositor  di  questa  e  lo  ambas- 

qual  sara  benissimo  fatta,  e  copiosa  e  parti-  sator  di  questi  Serenissimi  Re,  che  va  al 

colar  di  quanto  paese  e  scoperto.     Qui  non  Soldano ;  il  quale  vien  li  con  animo  di  pre- 

ce  n'e,  salva  una  di  detto  Colombo,  ne  e  sentarla  al  Serenissimo  Prencipe  nostro,  il 

uomo  che  ne  sappia  far.     Bisognera  tardar  qual    penso    la    fara    stampar  ;    e    cos!    la 

qualche  giorno  ad  aver  questa,  perche  Pa-  Magn.  V.  ne  avera  copia  perfetta." 
los,  dove  la  se  fa,  e  lontano  da  qua  700          Anglice :  "  I  have  had  so  much  to  do 

miglia  :  e  poi   come  la   sara  fatta,  non  so  with  COLUMBUS  that  we  are  now  on  inti- 

come  la   potro  mandar,  perche  1'ho  fatta  mate  terms,  and  I  have  a  great  friendship 

far  del  compasso  grande,  perche  la  sia  piu  for  him.     He  is  at  present  here  in  great 

bella.     Dubito    che    '1    bisognera    che    la  want,  out  of  favor  with  the  sovereign,  and 

Magn.  V.  aspetti  la  nostra  venuta,  che  di  with  little  money.     Through  him  I  have 

ragione  non  doveria  tardar  molto }  che  '1  sent  to  Palos,  a   place  where  only  sailors 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  81 

VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


ne 

illcajon  fa  tool  ein  melt  genentyt  merbcnj  bnrd)  ben  lut- 
ftclidjcn  fnnig,  don  ^ortipl  ||  tuuubebalid)  cvfnn&cn, 

Then  woodcut  similar  to  that  in  the  above  (No.  36),  but  evidently 
printed  from  a  different  block. 

In  fine  ': 

Uft  latin  ijt  blft  mifffneinSntfdj  gejogen  nft  bem  efent|| 
jilar  bag  doit  tariff  fam  tin  Wlcijen  monet  mitlc  nadj 
Griftne  geburt.  rd  Ijunbert  dub  funff  tar.  II 

*^*  410,  sine  loco,  eight  leaves,  thirty-three  lines  in  a  full  page  ; 
signatures  Aii,  Aiii,  Aiiii.  Altogether  different  from  the 
above  Nos.  35  and  36. 

(British  Museum.) 
2  8  .     VESP  UCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

bet  neu  jjefwtliett 

eltt  toew  9ettettt 


ben  (UMftculid)cu  fnnig||bon  ^arttgal..  njuudcrtJtirltd)  cr- 
funben.  II 

and  men  acquainted  with  COLUMBUS'S  voy-  not  be  far  off,  seeing  that  we  shall  soon 

age  live,  to  have  a  map  made  at  the  request  have  been  out  of  the  Republic  for  a  year. 

of  your  Magnificence.     It  will  be  extremely  Concerning  the  Treatise  on  the  Voyage  of 

well  executed,  and  copious  and  minute  in  COLUMBUS,  a  skillful  person  has  composed 

respect  to  all  the  newly  discovered  countries,  it  and  it  is  a  very  long  story.      I  copied  it 

There  is  no  such  map  here  save  one  in  the  and  have  the  copy  by  me,  but  it  is  so  large 

possession   of  the  said  COLUMBUS,  nor   is  that  I  have  no  way  of  sending  it,  except- 

there  any  man  who  can  make  one.    I  shall  ing  piece-meal.    I  here  send  your  Magnif- 

have  to  wait  some  days  for  the  same,  be-  icence  the  first  book,  which  I  have   trans- 

cause  Palos,  where  it  is  to  be  made,  is  seven  lated  into  Italian  for  your  greater  conveni- 

hundred  miles  from  here  ;  and  then  when  ence.     The   author  of  this   treatise  is  the 

it  is  finished  I  do  not  know  how  I  can  send  embassador  of  these  Most  Serene  Sovereigns 

it,  as  I  have  ordered  it  to   be  made   of  a  to  the  Sultan,  who  will  come  to  Venice  to 

large  size  that  it  may  be  handsomer.     I  present  it  to  our  Most  Serene  Prince,  who, 

expect  your  Magnificence  will  be  obliged  I  think,  should  have  it  printed,  and  so  your 

to  await  our  coming,  which  necessarily  can-  Magnificence  will  have  a  perfect  copy  of  it." 

II 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 

rESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


per  regent  ^ortugalliellprilrem  inuenta.  || 

Then   two   woodcuts  :   one   representing   four   naked  savages,   the 
other,  five  vessels. 

Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 

L  itingmannus  ^i)ileJuis,     &. 
i,  fuo  Eejjatt    g>.  p.  tr.  || 

of  the  second  leaf: 

H  He  terra  fufc  cartrine  Entarettco  per  regem 
tugallte  pri-  1|  trem  inuenta,  W.  Kingmanni 
iefij  barmen.  1  1 

Verso  of  the  second  leaf: 


rentiu 


On  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf  a  certificate  from  a  papal  notary,  fol 
lowed  by  : 

Emprettum  Argentine  per  J&ati)iam  fjupfuff .  M. 

Ve  V.  ||* 

*J|S*  Sm.  410,  six  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  and  Washington  city.) 

*  Anglice  :    Concerning    the   Antarctic  Antarctic    region   formerly    discovered    by 

coast  formerly  discovered  by  the   King  of  the  King  of  Portugal.      Master  Ringman 

Portugal.      Master  Ringman   Philesius   to  Philesius'    Poem.       Printed    at    Strasburg 

James  Bruno  his  friend.     Concerning  the  by  Matthias  Hupfuff,  1505. 


84  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CO  C»      Direct  reference:  f  PANZER,  Annales   Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  33. 

Bibliotheca  Grcn-vi/iiana,  page  766. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  3849. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  6,  No.  12. 
TERNAUX,  No.  7. 
Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  1158. 
Crowninshield  Catalogue,  No.  1071. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  I,  page  31. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1155. 


VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

$iw  ben  nftme  3*" 

fttle  nub  (nnbeit  fo  ^  $nt#id)en  erfnnben  f^ut 

kn  ffuttfl  Don  ^ortuptt.  || 

Then  the  same  woodcuts  as  in  No.  39,  and  on  the  verso  two  wood 
cuts  :  the  one  above  representing  two  men  looking  with  astonish 
ment  at  a  mermaid  ;  the  other,  the  King  (probably)  greeting  Ves 
pucci  upon  his  return. 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 


fafjt  rtl  ()ci!^  tin  rjute 
Ittutetia  )>etri  be  tttebicl^. 


of  the  last  leaf: 

1[  ©efrtttft  p  @trapit?g  in  bem  funff^e 


Then  woodcut  of  the  King  receiving  Vespuccius. 

*£*  Sm.  410,  eight  leaves,  in  a  demi-cursive  German  type  ;  signa 
tures  A  and  B  in  fours  ;  thirty-two  lines  in  a  full  page.  No 
water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

*  Anglic  e  :  Concerning  the  new  islands  New  World.  Alberic  Vespotius  sends  his 
and  countries  which  have  lately  been  dis-  respects  to  Laurent  Peter  de  Medicis. 
covered  by  the  King  of  Portugal  in  the  Printed  at  Strasburg  in  the  year  1506. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  85 

Direct  references:  f  TERNAUX,  No.  8.  I   COO. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1155.  __^_^_^ 

ROULIN,  in   HUMBOLDT'S  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  page  7,  note. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  page   310,  No.  4354. 
Notts  on  Columbus,  J,  page  32. 


4.1.  VESPUCCIUS  (4MERicus)—"Von  den  newen  Infulen 
und  Landen  so  yttz  kurtzlichen  erfundenn  seynd  durch 
den  kunigk  von  Portigal,  curious  woodcut  in  the  title1. 
'This  EXCESSIVELY  RARE  TRACT  consists  of  only  six  leaves. 

<f  Leypjick  durch  Baccalarium  Martinum  Landejfbergt, 
1506." 

(Bibliotheca  Heberiana9.) 

Direct  references:  {  a  Part  vi,  No.  3846. 
RICH,  No.  I. 

NAVARRETE,  Coleccion,  Vol.  m,  page  187. 
HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  page  1 60. 
Li-vres  Curicux,  No.  115. 


BERGOMAS  (JAC.   PHIL.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

j^outfftmeijtftciriarttliomniu  repercufHSe^:  noui| 
ter  a  <Keuerentritttmo  patre  Jacoto  pijiiipll 
gomenfe  ortrinis  Ifyeumitwcut  II  etrite  :  pe 
ttuntum  fupple  ||  mentt  Otronicarfi  nuncupan  II  tut 
jFnctptentro  at)  exar  II  trio  mutri  bfqp  in  &n  II  nu  S>alu= 
tis  nostxe.  II  iilccccc  bi  11  (Eutn  gratia  r  ^riuilegio.  || 

Then  a  coat  of  arms,  surmounted  by  a  cardinal's  hat. 
Colophon  : 

IT  J&zplicit  Supplementum  Suppleti 
icarum  3iiii||gettter  iEt  Accurate  Keuifum 
OTorrectu.  Uene||tii8  imprettum  ©pete  $p  ttnpen 
fa  (Beorgii  tre  Mu-||fconituj3  Enno  a 


1  BRUNET,  "  Alice  la  marque  de  rimprimcur,"  Vol.  v,  col.  1156. 


86  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1  506.  OTfmftl  M>  li  .11  bi.  Me  Hit  J&ait  :  ^egnante 


nat-  II  fco  Hobetmtui  Uenetia-  1|  rum 

*5K*  Folio,    thirteen    unnumbered    leaves,    then    numbered    leaves 
from  4  to  449.     Many  woodcuts. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Many  of  the  historians  of  the  fifteenth  century  were 
mere  chroniclers,  who  kept  a  historical  register  of 
events  in  the  order  of  time,  beginning  a  mundi  incunabu- 
liSj  and  ending  with  the  year  when  the  manuscript  was 
intrusted  to  the  printer.  Every  two  or  three  years,  ad 
ditions  were  made  and  new  editions  published  under  the 
name  of  the  author  who  had  given  celebrity  to  the  work, 
even  after  he  was  dead  and  buried  within  the  walls  of  the 
monastery,  which  had  often  been  his  only  sphere  of  action 
and  personal  influence. 

The  present  chronicle  is  one  of  that  character.  Its 
author,  James  Philip  Foresti  or  Bergomas,  was  born 
either  at  Soldio  (Niceron1),  or  at  Bergamo  (Bayle*,  and 
himself:  Bergamum  ciuitas  nostra  :  unde  mihl  origo  est], 
hence  his  name,  in  1423  (E/ssius*),  or  in  1434  (Nicer  on]  ; 
and  died  in  1518  (Boyle,  Elssius  and  Meusel4),  or  in  1^20 
(Niceron  or  Donato  Calvi\  whom  Niceron  seems  to  have 
copied  in  his  notice  of  Foresti).  He  was  of  a  noble 
family,  and  abandoned  the  world  to  become  a  monk  of 
the  Augustine  order. 

"  Tritheme  a  parle  de  lui  comme  d'un  tres  celebre 
Historiographe."  (Sallengre6.) 


*  Anglk'e  :   The  latest   reflections  of  all  *  Memoires  pour   ser-vir   a  rhistoire    da 

history,  lately  published  by  the  most  rever-  hommes  illustres,  Vol.  xvn,  page  223. 
end  Father  James  Philip  of  Bergamo,  of         3  Dict:onnaire,Vo\.  i,  page  534. 
the  order  of  the  Hermits,  called  the  Sup-          3  Encomiasticon     Auguitinian,    in     Cle- 

plement's  Supplement  to  the  Chronicles,  ment's     Bibliotheque     Curieuse,     Vol.     in, 

from  the  creation  of  the  world  to  the  year  pages  174-181. 

of  our  Redemption,  1 506,  with  Grace  and          4  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,   Part    I, 

Privilege.  page  96. 

Carefully  revised   and  corrected.     Ven-         6  Scena  Lett,  de gli  Scritt.  Bergam,  (Ber- 

ice,  printed  at  the  expense,  and  by  the  care  gamo,  1664,  4to),  Part  I,  page   196,  apud 

of  Georges  de  Ruscon,  A.  D.  1506,  May  Clement. 

4th,  under  the  reign  of  Leonard  de  Love-          6  Memoires  de  Litterature,  Vol.  I,  pages 

dano,  Prince  of  Venice.  166-171. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  87 

The  first  edition  of  the  Supplementum  chronicarum  is 
of  Venice,  folio,  1483  ;  which,  with  additions,  was  fre- 
quently  reprinted  as  late  as  1547,  and  in  Italian  to  the 
year  1581.  It  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  the  Bibliotheca 
Americana  on  account  of  the  chapter  De  quatuor  per- 
maximis  insulis  in  india  extra  orbem  nuper  invenfis7,  which, 
like  the  passages  in  the  Enneades  of  Sabellicus  and  the 
Commentary  of  MafFei  of  Volterra,  his  most  intimate 
friend,  acquires  a  peculiar  interest  from  the  fact  that  it 
preceded  the  publication  of  Peter  Martyr's  Decades. 
Maittaire8  and  Panzer9  give  editions  of  1483,  1484,  and 
"  non  castratum,"  1485  ;  Clement  cites  one  of  1486,  and 
Denis10  another  of  1492  (before  us)  to  which  Du  Fres- 
noy  and  Niceron  erroneously  ascribe  the  date  of  1493. 

The  Kloss"  and  Butsch  Catalogues  add  to  the  list  : 

"  Supplementum  supplement!  chronicarum  ab  exordio 
mundi  usque  in  anno  1502,  libri  xvi,  cum  multis  figg. 
ligno  incisis. 

"  Venetiis  Albert,  de  Lissona,  1503,  folio" 

—  which  is  the  first  edition  containing  the  chapter  relat 
ing  to  Columbus  and  his  voyages. 

There  is  a  Nuremberg  reprint  of  1506. 


Direct  references:  f  Bibl.  Hist.  Struvio-Buder.,  Vol.  i,  page  123, 
PANZER,  Annahs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vm,  page  382. 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Histories,  Vol.  i,  page  97. 
Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  Part  n,  Append.,  page  450. 
Biblioth.  Bro-wniana,  No.  14. 


7  In  the  present  copy  it  is  on  the  verso          10  Supplement,  page  302. 
ofleaf44o.  ll  London,  1835,  page  49,  No.  668.    To 

8  Annales   Typogr.,   Vol.  i  (that  which  all  of  which  we  add:  GESNER,  Bibliotheca, 
bears   the   date   of  1733,   and   constitutes  page    17;   Bibliotheca  Thott.,  Vol.  VH,  page 
Parts  i  and  a    of  Vol.   iv  of  that  erudite  1085  Vossius,  de  Histor.   Lat.,  page   662; 
but   chaotic  compilation),  pages  442,  458,  FABRICIUS,  Bibl.  Lat.  Med.,  B.  ix,   p.  38  j 
469,  479,  519,  548.  ENGEL, Bibl.  Select.,  Part  i,  page  15;  HAIN, 

9  Annales,  Vol.  i,  p.  247,  Vol.    ill,   pp.  Repertor.,  Nos.  1805,  sy.  ;  Catal.  Biblioth. 
232,   280,  288,   320,  482,  Vol.  vm,  pp.  Buna-v.,  Vol.  n,  page  1735   BRUNET,  Vol. 
364,  382.  i,  col.  7875  GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  341. 


88  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1500.         ^_g.  MAFFEI  OF  VOLTERRA—  "  Commentariorum  urban- 
=  orum  Libri  xxxviu. 

"Roma:,  J.  Beficken  [?],  1506,  folio." 

(Biographit  Uni-verselle  and  EBERT'.) 

Raphael  Maffei,  MafFeus  Volaterranus,  or  Rafaello 
Volterrano,  born  at  Volterra  in  1451,  died,  1521 
(MeuseF,  Blount*)  or  1522  (Tiraboschfi),  at  Rome. 

"  Raphael  de  Polterre  avait  deja  dedie  a  ce  grand  pontife  [Julius  III, 
ses  Commentaires  Urbains,  sorte  d'encyclopedie  contemporaine  dont  la 
geographic  forme  1'element  principal  [the  first  twelve  books],  et  ou 
les  recentes  decouvertes  des  Espagnols  et  des  Portugais  sont  appreciees 
au  point  de  vue  du  christianisme  qui  les  avait  inspirees.  Apres  avoir 
glorifie  le  passage  aux  Indes  par  le  cap  de  Bonne-Esperance,  et  les 
navigations  vers  les  iles  de  1'occident,  qui  n'avaient  point  encore  re9u 
le  nom  immerite  d'Americ  Vespuce,  1'auteur  depeint  les  peuples  nou- 
veaux,  dont  les  mceurs  etranges  ne  le  surprennent  pas  moins  que  leurs 
richesses.  Qui  le  croirait,  s'ecrie-t-il,  ils  ont  entendu  la  voix  des 
apotres,  eux  qui  ne  connurent  pourtant  des  Macedoniens  ou  des 
Remains,  ni  les  armes  ni  meme  le  nom." 

(THOMASSY6.) 

The  passage  referred  to  by  Mr.  Thomassy  in  his  in 
teresting  pamphlet  is  in  the  last  section  of  Book  xn, 
"Loca  nuper  reperta,"  and  begins  in  these  words :  <c  Huius 
itaque  laudis  aemuli  nautas  Hispani,  qui  sub  Ferdinandi 
regis  auspicijs  agunt,  duce  Christophoro  Columbo,  anno 
MCCCCXCI,  a  Gadibus  soluentes." 

The  above  may  not  be  the  exact  title  of  the  edition 
of  1506,  as  the  latter  seems  to  be  a  collection  of  all  of 
Maffei's  works. 

Direct  references:  (  *  Dictionary,  No.  13007. 

11  Biblioth.  Histor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  page  281. 

3  Censura  celeb,  auct.,  page  369. 

4  Storia  della  Let.  Ital.  Vol.  vii,  page  II. 
*  Les  Papes  Geographes,  page  2z. 

8  Vossius,  De  Histor.  Latin.,  Lib.  in,  cap.  xil,  page  672. 
BAILLET,  Jugements,  Vol.  II,  page  135, 
FREHERUS,  TAeatrum,  Part  iv,  page  1438. 
FABRICIUS,  Bibliogr.  Antiq.,  page  609 ;  and   Bibl.  Latin.  Mcd., 

Vol.  VI,  page  142. 

Govio,  Degli  huomi famos.t  (1558),  page  233. 
MAGIRUS,  Eponymologium  Criticum,  page  800. 
SAXIUS,  Onomaaicon,  Part  in,  page  I. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  89 

..     fESPUCCIUS  &  HYLACOMYLUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:        I 

COSMOGRAPHIAE     INTRODVC- 
TIO,  &c.,  cum  iv  Americi  Vefpucij  navig. 

Recto  of  Aii: 

"  Divo  Maximiliano  C&fari  au-  \\gufto  Martinus  iliaco-\\ 
milius  Foelicita-  ||  tern  optat.  ||" 


*  * 
* 


410.  This  is  the  Eyries  copy,  now  in  a  private  library  of 
Lyons.  We  have  failed  to  secure  a  collation  of  this  raris- 
sime  edition ;  but  the  Mazarine  Library  contains  a  specimen 
which,  as  far  as  it  goes,  is  identical  with  the  Eyries.  M. 
D'Avezac  informs  us  that  in  the  Mazarine  copy,  the  signa 
tures  read:  A  and  B  in  sixes,  C  and  D  in  fours  (it  lacks  the 
remaining  leaves) ;  and  that  the  title-page,  together  with 
Ringmann's  ten  lines  of  verse  on  the  verso,  and  the  dedication 
on  the  recto  of  Aii  in  the  name  of  "  ILACOMILVS"  (which,  in 
this  No.  44,  we  copy  literally  from  Brunei),  are  precisely 
like  our  No.  47. 


IDEM  OPUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

COSMOGRAPHIAE  INTRODVC- 
TIO/  ||  CVM  QVIBVSDAM  ||  GEOME- 
TRIAE||AC||ASTRONO||MIAE  PRIN- 
CIPI1S  ||  AD  EAM  REM  NECESSA- 
R1IS  ||  Infuper  quatuor  Americi  Ve-  || 
fpucij  nauigationes.  Vniuerfalis  Cbofmo- 
graphiae  \sic\  defcriptio  ||  tarn  in  folido 
qpplano/  eis  etiam  ||  infertis  que^  Ptholomeo  || 
ignota  a  nuperis  ||  reperta  ||  funt.  ||  DISTI 
CH  ON  ||  Cum  deus  aftra  regat/  &  terrae 
climata  Caefar  ||  Nee  tellus  nee  eis  fydera 
maius  habent.  || 

12 


90  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C  O  7  •         First  four  lines  on  the  verso  of  the  title  : 
=      DIVO  MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  SEM-||PER  AVGVSTO' 

GYNNASIVM  [«V]  VOS||AGENSE  NON  RVDIBVS  IN  DO  || 

CTISVE  ARTIVM  HVMANI  ||* 

In  fine,  encircling  a  printer's  mark,  containing  the  initials  S.  D.  |j 
G.  L.  ||  N.  L.  ||  M.  I.  (the  latter  interlaced)  : 

Vrbs  Deodate  tuo  clarefcens  nomine 
praeful  ||  Qua  Vogefi.  mentis  funt  iuga  pref- 
iit  opus  ||  Preffit/  &  ipfa  eade  Chrifto  mo- 
nimeta  fauete  ||  Tempore  venture  caetera 
multa  premet.  ||  Finitu.  vij.  kl'.  Maij  ||  An 
no  fupra  fefqui  Millefium.  vij.  ||f 


*  * 

* 


410 ;  signature  A  in  six,  B  in  four,  a  in  eight  (+two  for  rnap- 
pemund,  so  called),  b,  c  and  d  also  in  eights,  e  in  four,  f  in 
six ;  title  one  leaf;  then  from  A  ij  to  the  double  leaf  or  map, 
so  called,  and  which  we  count  as  one,  ten  unnumbered  leaves, 
making,  with  the  title-page,  eleven ;  then  from  a  to  fiiij, 
forty  leaves,  followed  by  two  more  without  signatures,  with 
the  colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  last,  the  verso  being  blank. 
Text  in  Roman  characters;  twenty-seven  lines  in  a  full  page; 
description  of  the  map  in  twelve  lines  in  Roman  type. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Owl's  Head  and  Providence.) 


*  Anglict :     Introduction    to    Cosmog-  f  Sic  fro  :  "  Praesul  Deodate  !  urbs  cla- 

raphy,  together,  with   some    principles   of  rescens  tuo   nomine  qua  sunt  iuga  montis 

Geometry  and  Astronomy  necessary  to  the  Vogesi,  pressit  [hoc]  opus ;  et  ipsa  eadem 

purpose.     Also  four  navigations  of  Ameri-  Christo  favente  monimenta;|  tempore  ven- 

cus  Vespucius.      A  description  of  universal  turo  premet  catera  multa." 
Cosmography,    both     stereometrical     and 

planometrical,    together    with     what    was  }  These  "M™/™^"  are  another  work  by  Hy- 

unknown  to  Ptolemy,  and  has  been  recently  lacomylus,  as  appears  from  the  following  passage 

discovered.      DlSTICH.       Neither   the   earth  in   the  dedication  of  the  Instruct™  manuducthncm 

nor  the  stars  possess  anything  greater  than  S°'<^^%Lv^l,£  died 

God  and  Caesar,  as  God  rules  the  stars  and  in  1508]  .  .  .  laboris  nostri  monimenta  sibi  oblata 

Caesar  the  climes  of  the  earth.  a  »°t>is  susceperet." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  91 

4.6.     VESPUCCIUS  &  HYLACOMYLUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

COSMOGRAPHIAE  ||  INTRODVC- 
TIO  ||  CVM  QVIBVS  ||  DAM  GEOME-II 
TRIAE||AC||ASTRONO||MIAE  PRIN- 
CIPIIS  AD||EAM  REM  NECESSARIIS|| 

Infuper  quattuor  Americi  ||  Vefpucij  naui- 
gationes.  ||  Vniuerfalis  Cofmographiae  de- 
fcriptio  tarn  |]  in  folido  qjplano/  eis  etiam 
infertis  ||  quae  Ptholom^o  ignota  a  nu  || 
peris  reperta  funt.  ||  DISTHYCON  ||  Cum 
deus  aftra  regat/  &  terrae  climata  Caefar  || 
Nee  tellus/  nee  eis  fydera  maius  habent.  || 

First  four  lines  of  tbe  verso  of  the  title  : 

DIVO  MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  SEM  ||  PER  AV- 
GVSTO  GYMNASIVM  ||  VOSAGENSE  NON  RVDI- 
BVS  ||  INDOCTISVE  ARTIVM  HV  || 

In  fine  (encircling  the  printer's  mark)  : 

Vrbs  Deodate  tuo  clarefcens  nomine 
praeful  ||  Qua  Vogefi  mentis  funt  iuga  pref- 
fit  opus  ||  Preflit/  &  ipfa  eade  Chrifto  mo- 
nimeta  fauete  ||  Tempore  venture  caetera 
multa  premet.  ||  Finitu.  iiij.  kl'.  Septe  ||  bris 
Anno  fupra  fes  ||  quimillefimu.  vij.  || 

*„,*  410;  signatures  A  and  B  in  sixes,  C  in  four  (4- two  for  map- 
pemund)  D  in  four,  with  verso  of  the  last  blank,  A  (again)  in 
eight,  b  and  c  in  fours,  d  in  eight,  e  and  f  in  fours ;  fifty-two 
unnumbered  leaves ;  map,  the  explanation  on  the  back  of 
which  is  in  fifteen  lines.  The  Dedication  to  the  King  of 
Jerusalem  is  on  the  recto  of  A  ii  in  the  part  containing  fes- 
puccius1  Voyages.  In  the  second  May  edition  this  Dedication 
is  on  the  -verso  of  b  iii  in  the  first  part. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


9 2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CO7.          47.    rzspuccius  &  HYLACOMYLU&—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


COSMOGRAPHIAE  INTRODV- 

CTIO/  CVM  QVIBVS 

DAM  GEOME 

TRIAE 

AC 

ASTRONO 

MIAE  PRINCIPIIS  AD 
EAM    REM    NECESSARIIS. 


Infuper  quatuor  Americi  Ve- 
fpucij   nauigationes. 

Vniverfalis    Cofmographi^    defcriptio 

tarn  in  folido  eg  piano/  eis  etiam 

infertis  qu^   Ptholom^o 

ignota  a  nuperis 

reperta  funt. 


DISTI  CHON. 

Cum  deus  aftra  regat/  &  terrae  climata  Caefar 
Nee  tellus  nee  eis  fydera  maius  habent. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  93 

Verso  of  the  title-page: 

MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  AVGVSTO 
PHILESIVS  VOGESIGENA. 

Cum  tua  lit  vaftum  Maieftas  facra  per  orbem 

Caefar  in  extremis  Maximiliane  plagis 
Qua  fol  Eois  rutilum  caput  extulit  vndis/ 

A  teg  freta  Herculeo  nomine  nota  petit: 
Quacg  dies  medius  flagranti  fydere  feruet/ 

Congelat  &  Septem  terga  marina  Trio: 
Aciubeas  regu  magnorum  maxime  princeps 

Mitia  ad  arbitrium  iura  fubire  tuum 
Hinc  tibi  deuota  generale  hoc  mente  dicauit 

Qui  mira  praefens  arte  parauit  opus. 

o  TeX,o<J. 

First  four  lines  of  the  recto  of  Aij  : 

DIVO  MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  AV 

GVSTO  MARTINVS  ILACO 

MILVS  FOELICITA 

TEM  OPTAT. 

Colophon  precisely  like  No.  46. 

*5lc*  41:0  ;  signatures  exactly  as  in  No.  46.  The  explanation  on 
the  back  of  the  mappemund  in  fifteen  lines  ;  the  head  line  on 
the  verso  of  Aiij,  reads  SPHERHAE  MATE,  instead  of  GEOMETRIAE, 
as  in  No.  45. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


94  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

But  for  this  little  work  the  Western  Hemisphere 
might  have  been  called  "The  Land  of  the  Holy  Cross," 
or  "Atlantis,"  or  "Hesperides,"  or  "Iberica,"  or  "  Co 
lumbia,"  or  "New  India,"  or  "The  Indies,"  as  it  is 
designated  officially  in  Spain  to  this  day.  The  idea  of 
calling  the  newly  discovered  world  America  originated 
with  the  compiler  of  the  work  before  us,  one  Martin 
Waltzmuller  or  Waldsee-muller,  a  native  of  Freiburg, 

*  O^ 

who  held  a  professorship  in  the  gymnasium  of  St.  Die, 
in  Lorraine  (and  not  in  Lower  Hungary,  as  Navarrete 
supposed1).  Following  the  custom  of  the  scholars  of 
those  days,  he  grecized  his  name  into  Hylacomylus, 
under  which  he  is  now  generally  known.  The  sugges 
tion  to  which  we  owe  our  national  name,  and  which 
seems  to  be  an  inexhaustible  source  of  abuse  and  asper 
sions,  bespattering  the  reputation  of  a  man  justly  and 
universally  respected  to  the  last  day  of  his  life,  will  be 
found  in  No.  45,  on  the  verso  of  the  fifteenth  leaf 
(which  is  the  first  after  a-iiij  and  the  map),  and  is  as 
follows  : 


NUC  to  &  h^  partes  funt  lathis  luftratae/ 
&  alia  ||  quarta  pars  per  Americu  Vefputiu 
(vt  in  fequenti  ||  bus  audietur)  inuenta  eft/ 
qua  non  video  cur  quis  ||  iure  vetet  ab 
Americo  inuentore  fagacis  ingenij  vi  ||  ro 
Amerigen  quafi  Americi  terra/  flue  Amer- 
icam  ||  dicenda  :  cu  &  Europa  &  Alia  a 
mulieribus  fua  for  ||  tita  fint  nomina.* 

It  is  followed  by  the  word  "America,"  in  the  margin. 


*  Viz. :  "  But  now  that  those  parts  have  Americus,  a  man  of  sagacious  mind,  since 

been  more  extensively  examined  and  an-  both   Europe  and  Asia   took  their   names 

other  fourth   part  has   been   discovered  by  from  women." 

Americus  (as  will  be  seen  in  the  sequel),          '  "  Ex  offido  di-vi  Deodati,  que  corre- 

I  do  not  see  why  we  should  rightly  refuse  sponde  hoy  a  Tata  6  Dolis,  ciudad  situada 

to  name  it  America,  namely,  the  land  of  en    la  Hungria  inferior" — Cotcccion,  Vol. 

Americus  or  America,  after  its  discoverer,  in,  p.  183. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  95 

The  popularity  of  Hylacomylus'  Cosmographia  was  such 
in  Central  Europe  that  his  proposition  was  immediately 
acted  upon.  As  a  consequence,  we  find  in  Gaultier 
Ludd's  Speculum  Orbis  (No.  49),  written  in  the  same 
year,  the  credit  of  having  discovered  the  Western  Hem 
isphere  ascribed  solely  to  Vespuccius,  while  an  anony 
mous  Globus  mundi,  published  by  the  same  printer  in 
1509  (No.  61),  boldly  calls  the  new  world  America^ 
which  figures  under  this  name  for  the  first  time  in  maps2 
eight  or  ten  years  after  Vespuccius  had  been  in  his  then 
honored  grave.  Well  may  we  say  with  Humboldt3  that : 
"c'est  un  homme  obscur,  qui  allait  manger  du  raisin  en 
Lorraine,  qui  a  invente  le  nom  d'Amerique,  qu'Appien 
[the  designer  of  the  map  inserted  in  Gamers'  Solinus], 
Vadianus  et  Gamers  ont  repandu  depuis  par  Strasbourg, 
Fribourg  et  Vienne." 

Although  this  important  fact  is  now  generally  known 
through  the  praiseworthy  efforts  of  Humboldt4,  who 
took  it  at  heart  to  vindicate  the  calumniated  Florentine, 
Foscarini5  and  Bandini6  were  the  authors  who  first  called 
the  attention  of  critics  to  that  interesting  passage  in  the 
Cosmographia.  It  is  also  in  the  volume  before  us  that 
the  reader  will  find  the  first  collection  of  Vespuccius' 
voyages,  which  we  quote  in  No.  22,  under  the  name  of 
Hylacomylus. 

"  Quoiqu'il  en  soit,  1'auteur  de  cette  Cosmographie  a  fait  plus  que 
de  dormer  a  1'Amerique  le  nom  qu'elle  porte  aujourd'hui,  car  on  voit, 
par  differents  endroits  de  son  ouvrage,  que  deja  au  commencement  de 
1507  il  avait  prepare  des  mappemondes  comprenant  ce  qu'on  con- 
naissait  alors  de  1'Amerique.  '  Totius  orbis  typu  tarn  in  solido 
piano  ....  paraq'erimus'  (Cosmograpbite,  ie  edit.  feuilletAij  rec 
to)  ....  Si  te  modi  umonuerimus  prius,  nos  in  depingendis  tabulis 
typi  generalis  no  omnimodo  sequatos  esse  Ptholomeu,  praesertim  circa 
novas  terras  vbi  in  cartis  marinis  aliter  animadvertimus  u  equatorem 
costitui  q'  Ptholomeus  fecerit  (ibid,  feuillet  b.  recto).  L'auteur  donne 


a  Inserted  in  two  editions  of  Solinus,  *  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  33;  Cos- 
Vienna  and  Cologne,  fol.  1520.  See  infra,  mos,  Vol.  n,  p.  676,  note. 

3  Bulletin  de  la  Societe  de  Geographic,  6  Del.  Letterat.  Veneziana,  p.  432,  note. 
for  December,  1835,  p.  411.  *  Vita,  Introduction,  p.  LVI. 


g 6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CO7»  de  plus  grands  details  encore  dans  1'inscription  placee  au  recto  de  la 
_____^_  planche  qu'on  appele  mappemonde  et  qui  ne  contenant  absolument 
~~  rien  de  geographique,  n'a  rien  de  commun  avec  les  mappemondes  geo- 
graphiques  que  1'auteur  avait  preparees,  et  dont  il  parle.  En  effet  au 
verso  de  cette  'mappemonde'  qu'on  voit  dans  les  deux  editions,  verso 
qui  pour  le  dire  en  passant  contient  12  lignes  dans  1'edition  '  vn  Kal. 
Maij'  [the  above]  et  15  lignes  dans  la  reimpression  '  iiij  Kl.  Septe- 
bris  [No.  46]  bien  que  les  inscriptions  soient  les  memes  dans  les  deux 
editions,  (nous  indiquons  cette  difference  qui  pourra  servir  a  recon- 
naitre  si  1'on  n'a  pas  interpole  la  '  mappemonde'  d'une  edition  dans 
1'edition  a  laquelle  elle  n'appartient  pas)  1'auteur  explique  comment 
dans  la  veritable  mappemonde  qu'il  avait  preparee,  il  avait  distingue 
par  des  signes  speciaux  les  quatre  parties  de  la  terre,  savoir :  L'Europe 
par  des  aigles  romaines,  1'Afrique  et  une  partie  de  1'Asie  par  des  crois 
sants  .  .  .  .  '  Deniq  in  quartam  terre  parte  per  inclytos  Castilie  et 
Lusitanix  reges  repertam  eorundem  ipsorum  insignia  posuimus.'  On 
voit  done  que  c'est  avant  1'edition  de  Ptolemee,  publiee  avec  le  supple 
ment  Marci  Beneventani  \infra\,  que  1'auteur  de  cette  Cosmograpbia 
avait  prepare  une  mappemonde  contenant  ce  qu'on  connaissait  alors  de 
1'Amerique.  Cette  mappemonde  a-t-elle  paru  separement  en  1507 
ou  bien,  1'auteur  ne  l'a-t-il  publiee  qu'apres  ?  c'est  la,  une  question 
que  des  recherches  ulterieures  dirigees  specialement  vers  ce  point 
pourront  peut-etre  eclaircir. 

"C'est dans  cette  edition  que  les  quatre  navigations  d'Americ  Ves- 
puce  ont  paru  pour  la  premiere  fois  [together]  en  latin.  Ceux  qui  se 
sont  occupes  de  1'histoire  de  la  geographic  savent,  que  la  relation 
du  troisieme  voyage  de  Vespuce  fait  en  1501,  qui  se  trouve  a  la  suite 
de  cette  Cosmograpbie  offre  une  redaction  totalement  diff'erente  de  celle 
que  Vespuce  a  donnee  dans  la  lettre  a  Laurent  de  Medicis,  publiee 
sous  le  litre  de  Mundus  Novus  de  Ora  Antartica1 ,  &c.  Celle  qu'on 
voit  dans  la  Cosmograpbia  est  adressee  au  due  de  Lorraine  (qu'on 
appelait  le  roi  de  Sicile)  et  elle  offre  une  tres  grande  analogic  avec 
celle  qui  a  ete  publiee  comme  etant  adressee  a  Soderini.  On  sait  du 
reste,  que  dans  differentes  editions  de  ces  lettres  on  trouve  des  dates 
differentes " 

(LlBRJ8.) 

We  cite  four  copies  of  this  work :  two  dated  of  the 
calends  of  May  (April  25th),  1 507,  and  two  of  the  calends 
of  September  (August  29th)  of  the  same  year.  All  four 
differ  in  their  typographical  arrangements,  but  not  in 
the  text,  either  of  the  Cosmographiae  Introductio,  which 


7  It  is  the  first  duplicate,  see  supra,  p.  63.          8  Catalogue  of  1862  (?),  p.  15. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  96* 

forms  the  first  part  of  the  work,  or  of  the  relation  of    I  CO7. 

the  four  voyages  of  Vespuccius,  which  constitutes  the  

second  part.  The  variations  are  chiefly  in  the  text  of 
the  dedications,  and  in  the  omission  in  Nos.  45  and  46 
of  Ringmann's  ten  lines  of  verse,  which  in  these  are 
replaced  by  a  short  text  in  prose  and  four  lines  in  verse, 
totally  different. 

No.  44  we  have  never  seen,  but  Nos.  45,  46  and  47, 
we  describe  de  visu. 

It  is  extremely  difficult  to  give  with  certainty  the 
chronology  of  these  four  issues  ;  but  thanks  to  the 
corrections  sent  us  by  M.  D'Avezac,  we  are  enabled  to 
set  forth  a  very  plausible  arrangement. 

No.  44  must  be  considered  the  first  edition.  The 
reader  will  notice  that  in  this,  the  dedication  to  the 
Emperor  is  in  the  name  of  "  MARTINVS  ILACOMILVS," 
while  in  No.  45,  it  is  inscribed  by  the  <c  GYMNASIVM 
VOSAGENSE."  Now  in  the  Margarita  of  Strasburg, 
1513',  there  is  a  letter  addressed  to  Ringmann  or  Phi- 
lesius,  in  which  Hylacomylus  complains  bitterly  of  cer 
tain  parties  who  profited  of  his  absence  to  arrogate  to 
themselves  the  merit  of  having  composed  the  Cosmo- 
graphia.  This  charge  implies  the  existence  of  a  previous 
edition  by  Hylacomylus ;  and  the  distich  which  con 
cludes  the  verses  addressed  by  Ringmann  to  the  Em 
peror10,  may  be  interpreted  as  indicating  that  No.  44  is 
the  first  edition  ;  which,  as  we  have  already  stated, 
bears  the  name  of  Hylacomylus. 


9  "  Ce  passage  se  lit  dans  la  Margarita  nomen  Sancto  Deodato)  ubi,  ut  nosti,  meo 
philosophica  edition  de  Strasbourg,  1513,  potissimum  ductu  et  labore  (licet  plerique 
intercalle  entre  le  6"  et  le  7"  livre  (la  alii  falso  sibi  passim  ascribant)  Cosmo- 
pagination  manque).  II  ne  se  trouve  pas  graphiam  non  sine  gloria  et  laude  per  orbem 
dans  1'edition  de  Bale  de  la  meme  annee  ni  disseminatam  nuper  (c'etait  en  1507)  corn- 
dans  aucune  des  nombreuses  editions  subse-  posuimus,  depinximus  et  impressimus  .  .  ." 
quentes  que  j'ai  pu  examiner  dans  les  dif-  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p. 
ferentes  bibliotheques  d'Allemagne.  'Cum  113,  note. 

his   diebus  Bachanalibus  solatii  causa,  qui  10  "  Hinc  tibi  devota  generale  hoc  mente 

mihi  mos  est,  in  Germaniam  venissem  e  dica-vit 

Gallia,   seu   potius   ex    Vogesi  oppido   (cui  Qui  mnzfrtesens  arte  faravit  of  us." 

1 2  bis. 


q6b  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ICO7.  The  edition  published  in  his  absence  is  evidently 
.  No.  45,  as  it  is  in  this  that  we  first  find  the  substitution 
complained  of  by  Hylacomylus.  No.  46  is  a  reprint  of 
45,  but  with  a  different  arrangement,  and  dated  Sep 
tember  instead  of  May  in  the  colophon.  No.  47  is  un 
questionably  a  copy  composed  of  two  different  editions, 
viz. :  No.  44  for  the  Cosmographta,  and  No.  46  for 
Vespuccius'  Voyages.  The  signatures  of  the  first  part 
agree  perfectly  with  the  Mazarine-Eyries  copy ;  and 
not  only  the  signatures  of  the  second  part  tally  with 
No.  46,  but  the  blur  on  b  iij  is  found  in  both.  The 
colophons  in  Nos.  46'  and  47  are  also  identical,  as  re 
gards  the  date  and  typography. 

There  may  be  in  existence  copies  formed  with  parts 
taken  from  Nos.  44,  45  and  46,  and  differing  still  more 
from  No.  47". 

Concerning  Hylacomylus,  all  we  can  add  is  that  "Mar- 
finus  Waltze-muller  de  Friburgo  Const antiensis  dyoecesis,  a 
ete  inscrit  comme  etudiant  sous  le  rectorat  de  Conrad 
Knoll  de  Griiningen,  le  7  decembre  1490,  .  .  .  et  qu'il 
avait  etabli  peu  avant  1507  (nuper)  une  librairie  (libra- 

11  The   Cosmographiae  Introductio  justly  The   September  copy,  sold  the  year  before, 

ranks  among  the  rarest  books  pertaining  by  Tross,^[  yielded  280  francs.     How  dif- 

to  an  American  library,  but  it  is  not   as  ferent   these   prices    are    from    those    paid 

scarce  as  a  good  many  works  of  equal  im-  sixty  years  ago.     The  Lomenie  de  Brienne 

portance,  such,  for  instance,  as  the  Epistles  copy**  commanded  only  four  francs  ;   and 

of  Columbus   and   Vespuccius.     We   pos-  when  it  was  again  brought  under  the  ham- 

sess  in  this   country,  three   copies   of  the  mer  at  the  Meon  sale,  in  i8o3,-j"j-  to  ob- 

second  May  edition  (No.  45),  three  of  the  tain  six  francs,  the  auctioneer  was  obliged 

first  September  (No.  46),  and  what  might  to  add  it  to  some  other  work.     The  Eyries 

be  termed  an  amalgamated  copy  (No,  47).  copy,  which  is  the  first  and   rarest   of  all 

In  Paris,  we  know  only  of  the  incomplete  the  editions,  was  picked  up  at  a  book-stall, 

first  May  in  the  Mazarine  Library.     The  in  Paris,  by  M.  Eyries  himself,  and  bought 

British  Museum  possesses  in  the  Grenville  for  twenty  cents. 

collection  either  a   May  or   a  September. 

The  copy  described   by   Humboldt,*  and  *  Examen  Critiqul^  Vol<  IV>  p  JOQj  B(/f- 

which  seems  to  be  the  identical  one  still  •)•  he.  <•//.,  p.  104. 

preserved  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Berlin,f  J  Tromel,  Biklioth.  Amiricaine,  p.  119. 

is  the  second  May.     The  edition  sold  in  f  SSSSSftSS^  .858,  Nos. 

lOOI,    by  Brockhaus,  for  Thlr.  50,^  was  347  &  348. 

the   first   September.      That    advertised   a  IT  Catalogue  for  1857. 

few   months   since   at    Berlin  |    and    pur-         ft  gS5  J  «J^  B&  3gi  J*  SJ 

chased   the   same   day  for  Thlr.  60,  was  a  "  avec   cette  singuliere  indication,"  Brunei  says, 

May.      From  the  description  we  are  unable  in  his  valuable  Manuel:    "  Francofurti    Deodati, 

to  ascertain  the  precise  kind  of  the  Butsch  l^ff^mffgZZZ  Z£ 

copies, II  one  of  which  brought  101  norms,  primeur." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  96° 

riam  offidnam)  a  Saint-Die11."  In  the  Ptolemy  of  1552''  1 507* 
he  is  mentioned  by  Laurent  Phrysius  as  the  "  late"  de-  -—--—.-. 
signer  of  the  maps  contained  in  that  valuable  edition. 

Matthew  Ringmann  or  Philesius  was  a  poet  and 
scholar,  born  at  Schlettstadt,  towards  the  year  1482. 
He  became  a  professor  in  the  Gymnasium  of  the  Vos- 
ges,  and  died  in  15  n14. 

Walter  Ludd  is  mentioned  in  connection  with  the 
work,  on  the  assumption  that  the  initials  G.  L.  in  the  col 
ophon  are  intended  for  his  name.  He  is  even  believed 
to  have  been  the  first  printer  in  St.  Die.  Ludd  may 
have  introduced  printing  in  that  town,  just  as  Mr. 
Glover  established  the  first  press  in  Cambridge,  but  the 
reader  will  see  from  our  No.  49  that  he  was  Secretary 
to  the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  and  a  dignitary  of  the  Church. 

As  to  the  prince  to  whom  the  work  is  dedicated,  it  is 
Rene  II,  called  King  of  Sicily  and  Jerusalem,  the  hero, 
we  believe,  of  the  battle  of  Morat,  and  who  died  in 
I5o815.  Lelewel  says16  that  "  encourageant  1'etude  de  la 
geographic,  il  faisait  graver  a  ses  frais  les  cartes  mo- 
dernes  qui  devaient  accompagner  Ptolemee." 


Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annalcs  Typographic},  Vol.  vi,  page  490. 

SCHEIBEL,  Astronomische  Bibliographic,  Vol.  I,  page  63. 

Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  page  765. 

Bibliotheea  Hcbcriana,  Part  vi,  Nos.  147  and  3847  ;  Part  vn,  No. 
6409. 

HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  pages  33  and  100,  note. 

BEAUPRE,  Rechcrches  sur  le  commencement  de  flmprimerie  en  Lor 
raine  (Nancy,  8vo,  1845),  page  67. 

TROMEL,  Bibliothequc  Am'ericaine,  No.  I. 

Historical  Nuggets,  Nos.  Z74  and  2745. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  280. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  316  (fac-simile  of  the  printer's  mark). 

Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vn,  page  219;  EBERT,  Vol.  iv,  No. 
23544,-  Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  129,  No.  2266:  and  TER- 
NAUX,  No.  10,  one  of  the  four,  but  we  cannot  ascertain  from 
the  description  whether  it  is  the  May  or  September  issue. 


18  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critiquc,Vo\.iv,  "  ROTERMUND,  Fortsetzung  xu  Jockeys 

p.  105, sa.  Gelehrten-Lexicon,  art.  Ringmann. 

18  . .  "  has  tabulas  e  novo  a  Martino  Ila-  16  Art  de  Virif.  les  Dates,Vo\.  xin,  p.  410. 

comylo  pie  defuncto."  Lib.  vm,  cap.  u.  18  Geogr.  du  Moyen-Age,Vo\.  n,  p.  143. 


q6d  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

CQ7.  4-8.     MONTALBODDO  (FRAC.  DA)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


Then,  in  a  scroll,  encircling  a  sphere,  and  covering  the  entire  page,. 
the  words,  printed  in  red,  and  irregularly,  owing  to  the  folds  of  the 
scroll  : 


Colophon  : 

If  Stampato  in  Vicentia  cu  la  impenfa  de  Mgro  || 
Henrico  Vicentino  :  &  diligente  cura  &  indu  ||  ftria  de 
Zamaria  fuo  fiol  nel  M.cccccvii.  a  ||  di  iii.  de  Nouembre. 
cum  gratia  &  ||  priuilegio.* 

*x*  Sm.  410,  six  preliminary  leaves  +  one  hundred  and  twenty 
unnumbered  leaves,  the  last  blank  ;  twenty-eight  lines  in  a 
full  page.  Text  in  Roman.  Some  copies  present  slight  vari 
ations  in  the  register. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

"  Son  merite  intrinseque  est  grand,  parce  qu'a  1'exception  de  celle 
de  Milan,  1508  [No.  55]  toutes  les  autres  editions  et  traductions  ont 
eprouve,  dans  plusieurs  endroits  du  texte,  des  alterations  sensibles,  et 
pour  des  causes  particulieres."  [?] 

(CHARLES  NODIER*.) 

"  Le  veritable  compilateur  (raccoglitore}  de  ce  curieux  et  important 
Recueil  de  Vicence  n'est,  comme  on  1'a  cru  long-temps,  ni  Montal- 
boddo  Fracanzano  de  Vicence,  ni  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo,  c'est- 
a-dire  natif  de  Monte-Alboddo,  dans  la  Marche  d'Ancone,  professeur 
de  belles-lettres  a  Vicence  ;  mais  (selon  1'ingenieuse  observation  du 
comte  Baldelli)  Alessandro  Zorzi,  habile  cosmographe  et  dessinateur 
de  cartes  a  Venise." 

(HuMBOLDT*.) 

*  Anglice  :  Countries  newly  discovered,  son,  November  3d,  1507.     With  permis- 

and  the  New  World  of  Alberico  Vesputio,  sion  and  privilege. 

called  the  Florentine.    Printed  in  Vicenza,          *  Catalogue  of  1844,  Part  i,  No.  1042. 
at  the  cost  of  Master  Henrico  Vicentino,          *  Examcn   Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  80  ;   but 

and  by  the  care  and  skill  of  Zamaria,  his  see  infra,  p.  469,  sq. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  97 

The  opinion  that  Zorzi  was  actually  the  compiler  of  I 
this  work  is  based  upon  a  manuscript  note  in  the  Ma- 
gliabechi  copy,  stating  that  Bartholomew  Columbus  (who 
visited  Rome  in  1505)  made  a  present  of  the  account 
of  his  brother's  first  voyage  (probably  the  De  Insu/is  of 
1493),  with  a  map  of  his  earliest  discoveries,  to  a  canon 
of  St.  John  of  Latran,  and  that  the  latter  gave  it  after 
wards,  while  in  Venice,  to  Alexander  Zorzi,  "  suo  amico 
e  compilatore  della  raccolta." 

The  contents  of  this  rarissime  work  are  as  follows : 

LIBRO  PRIMO. 

([  In  comenza  el  libro  de  la  prima  Nauigatione  per  loc- 
ceano  a  le  terre  de  Nigri  de  la  Bajfa  Ethiopia  per  com- 
andamento  del  Illufl.  Signor  Infante  Don  Hurich  fratelk 
de  Don  Dourth  Re  de  Portogallo. 

This  first  book,  which  extends  from  cap.  i  to  cap.  XLVII,  contains 
the  voyage  of  Aloysius  or  Lewis  da  Ca  da  Mosto  to  the  Cape  Verde 
and  Senegal  (August  8th,  1454,  to  June,  1455)." 

LIBRO  SECUNDO. 

(I  De  la  Nauigatione  de  Lifbona  a  Callichut  de  lengua 
Portogalleje  intaliana. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  XLVIII  to  cap.  L,  the  voyage  of  Piero  d'  Sinzia 
(Peter  de  Cintra)  to  Senegal,  in  1462,  written  by  Ca  da  Mosto  as  it 
fell  from  the  lips  of  Cintra's  secretary.  From  cap.  LI  to  cap.  LXI,  the 
first  voyage  of  Vasco  da  Gama4  (July  8th,  1497,  to  July  loth,  1500); 
and  that  of  Pedro  Alvarez  Cabral  (March  gth,  1500,  to  July, 
1501). 

*  ZURLA,  Dei  Viaggi  e  delle  Scoferte  *  CASTANHEDA,  Hist,  do  Descobr.  e  Con- 

Africant  di  Ca  da  Mosto;  Venice,  8vo,  quista  da  India;  Coimbra,  410,  1551,  and 

1815.  FARIA  Yr  SOUZA,  Asia  Portugueza;  Lisb., 

KULB,  Geschichte  der  Entdckungsrciscn ;  fol.  1666.  CAMOENS,  os  Lusiadas  ;  Lis- 

Mentz,  8vo,  1841.  bon,  410,  1572,.  DENIS,  Portugal;  Paris, 

SPRENGEL,  Geschichte  der  •wichtigsten  8vo,  1846.  K.  DE  KLOGUEN,  Historic. 

Entdcckungcn  ;  Halle,  izrno,  1792.  Sketch  of  Goa  ;  Madras,  8vo,  1831. 

13 


9  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1507.  LIBRO  TERTIO. 

d  De  la  nauigatione  de  Lijbona  a  Caliehut  (sic),  de 
lengua  Portogallefe  in  taliana. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  LXI  to  cap.  LXXXIIII,  the  continuation  of  Ca- 

bral's  voyage. 

LIBRO  QUARTO. 

([  In  comenza  la  nauigatione  del  Re  de  Cafliglia  dele  IJole 
&  Paefe  nouamente  retrouate. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  LXXXIIII  to  cap.  cvm,  the  first  three  voyages  of 
Columbus ;  from  cap.  cvm  to  cap.  cxi,  the  voyage  of  Alonso  Negro 
(sic),  and  from  cap.  cxi  to  cap.  cxini  the  voyage  of  the  brothers 
Pinzon. 

LIBRO  QUINTO. 

([  El  Nouo  Mondo  de  Lengue  Spagnole  interpretato  in 
Idioma  Ro. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  cxini  to  cap.  cxxv,  the  duplicate  of  Vespuccius' 
third  voyage. 

LIBRO  SEXTO. 

(T  De  le  cofe  da  Caliehut  coforme  ala  Nauigatide  de 
Pedro  A  Hares  nel.  ii.  &  .  Hi.  libra  leq'le  Je  bano  ueriffeme 
Perle  Copie  de  alcune  Lre  Jecundo  lor  dene  de  li  Millejfimi 
in  queflo  ultime  racolte. 

It  contains,  Cap.  cxxv  :  a  chapter  of  a  letter  from  Critico,  the  Por 
tuguese  correspondent  of  the  Signoria  of  Venice,  concerning  the  voy 
age  of  Cabral,  described  in  Book  n.  Cap.  cxxvin  (which  comes 
immediately  afterwards) :  A  letter  concerning  a  treaty  of  peace  be 
tween  the  Kings  of  Portugal  and  Calicut.  Cap.  xxvi :  Letter  of  the 
Venetian  embassador  ("  orafore"),  Peter  Pasquaglio,  concerning  Cas 
par  Cortereal's  first  voyage  (from  the  Spring  of  1500,  to  October  8th, 
1501).  Cap.  cxxvn :  Letter  of  Francis  de  la  Saita  to  Pasquaglio, 
concerning  John  de  Nova's  expedition  (March  5th,  1501,  to  Septem 
ber  nth,  1502)  to  the  East  Indies.  Cap.  cxxix,  and  cxxx  :  Account 
given  by  Joseph,  the  Indian  (Camanor,  a  converted  aborigene  brought 
to  Portugal  by  Cabral,  and  afterwards  to  Rome  and  Venice).  Cap. 
CXXXI-CXLIII  :  Account  of  Carangonor  and  Calicut.  Cap.  CXLIII  : 
Letter  of  the  King  of  Portugal  to  Pope  Julius  II,  concerning  the  Por 
tuguese  navigations  and  discoveries  in  Asia. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  99 

We  have  dwelt  upon  the  contents  of  this  work  because 
it  is  the  most  important  collection  of  voyages,  and,  in 
the  absence  of  the  Libretto  of  Vercellese5,  now  lost,  the 
earliest.  It  has  been  frequently  reprinted  and  translated, 
and  serves  to  this  day,  in  the  Latin  repertory  of  Gry- 
naeus,  as  a  trustworthy  and  interesting  source  of  infor 
mation. 


Direct  reftrencet :  f  FOSCARINI,  Letter atura  Vcntxiana,  pages  432-4. 

ZURLA,  Di  Marco  Polo  e  degli  altri  viaggiatori  f^eneaiani,  Vol. 
II,  page  109. 

BALDELLI,  //  Milione,  Vol.  I,  page  xxxn,  note. 

TIRABOSCHI,  Storia,  Vol.  vn,  pages  213  and  246. 

CAMUS,  Mimoire  sur  De  Bry,  page  342. 

Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  764. 

Bibliotheca  Broivntana,  page  6,  No.  15. 

Bibliotheca  Hcbcriana,  Part  YII,  No.  1146,  and  Part  VI,  No.  598, 
to  the  latter  of  which  "  was  subjoined  a  very  curious  collection 
of  Manuscript  Papers  (in  Latin)  containing  Letters  from  Emma 
nuel,  King  of  Portugal,  to  the  Popes  Julius  Second  and  Leo  X, 
and  a  copy  of  Americus  Vesputius'  own  account  of  part  of  his 
Voyages.  Sir  Mark  Sykes'  copy." 

Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  93,  No.  1631. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1156. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2743. 

PANZER,  Annalu  Typogr.,  Vol.  vm,  page  563,  Nos.  3  and  4 
( ? ) ;  EBERT,  Vol.  I,  No.  3139  ( ? )  ;  and  TERNAUX,  No.  9, 
probably. 


4.  Q  .     L  UDD  (  WAL  TER  )—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


inclqjcms  p*clara  utia,  tt 
(Canon- 


See  supra,  page  75,  No. 


ioo  Eibllotheca  Americana. 

Then,  encircling  a  diagram  showing  the  planetary  system  : 

J^eltcts  animae  piiws  ijaec  cognofcere  primumll 
Jn$  trotmis  fuperas  fcanfcere  eura  fuit. 
tra  fignorum  ofcitug  fpeculamur  et  ortus. 
ritufcp  parent  triuerfte  quatuora  nnum  i 

And  at  the  bottom  of  the  page  : 


Mr  atom. 

Colophon  : 

tatlonfst  in  fpe- 1|  culu  orfcte  p 
I  (^i^e  ||  rii  Hutrtr1  Otanonicii 
tuut||3Beoiratt  Jlluftriffimi  Henallti  SolBmorutn 
ac  gnriliae  regi^  II  ^*  ^n:e  tarium  trigniffitnu  || 
triltgenter  patatum  ||  et  intruftria  Joan- II  nig  (irunk 
gcri  II  Etgetift,  im-  II  prettum  ||  finis.  II* 

*5)c*  Folio,  four  numbered  leaves ;  text  in  black  letter ;  diagrams  on 
the  verso  of  leaf  n  and  on  the  recto  of  leaf  in.  The  date, 
according  to  the  dedication  to  Rene,  on  folio  n,  is  1507.  On 
the  verso  of  folio  in  are  :  l^etftCUli  fcC  mCOgnita  t0tta, 

the  last  two  lines  of  which  read  : 

j^eft  qtr  plura :  fitfi,  gentis  moref^  reptg  II  Etnerz 
ici  parua  mole  UWlus  ijatet.llt 

(British  Museum.) 

*  Anglice  :  A  most  succinct  but  neither  The  End  of  the  Exposition  of  the  Mir- 
inaccurate  nor  inelegant  Exposition  and  ror  of  ye  World,  most  diligently  prepared 
Canon  of  the  Mirror  of  the  World.  by  Walter  Ludd,  Canon  of  St.  Die,  most 
Happy  the  first  who  felt  their  spirits  yearn  worthy  Secretary  of  Rene,  the  most  Illus- 
To  climb  the  Heavens  and  all  their  secrets  trious  King  of  Jerusalem  and  Sicily.  Print- 
learn,  ed  by  the  pains  of  John  Gruninger  of 
Nor  vain  nor  idle  is  our  taste  to  scan  Strasburg. 

How,    moving    ever   through    that    upper  •}•  But  hold,  enough !  Of  the  American  race, 

sphere,  New  found,  the  home,  the  manners  here 

Stars  rise  and  set,  and  how  in   Heaven's  you  trace 

high  place  By  our  small  book  set  forth  in  little  space. 

Four  seasons  rounding  fill  the  equal  year.  *  The  reader  who  has  access  to  CHEV- 

Dedicated  to  Rene,  King  of  Sicily,  &c.  RIER,   Memoires  four  ser-vir  a  fhht.   des 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  101 

50.  rESPuccius  (AMERicus}-"VON  DEN  NEWEN    I5°°' 
Infulen  vnd  Landen  fo  yttz  kurtzlichen  erfundenn  feynd 
durch  den  kiinigk  Portigal. 

"  Gedruckt  zu  Strajfburg  in  dem  funfftzen  hunderten  und 
acht  jar  (1508).  et  prefente  la  meme  vignette  que  1'edi- 
tion  de  1506"  [No.  40]. 

(BRUNET1.) 

Direct  references:  f1  Manuel,  Vol.  v,  col.  1156. 
\      Li-vres  curieux,  No.  117 


C  I.     STAMLER  (JOHN) — Within  a  very  complicated  woodcut : 

DYALOGVS  IOHANNIS  STAMLER  •  AV- 
GVSTN  .  ||  DE  DIVERSARVM  GENCIVM  SEC- 
TISHET  MVNDI  RELIGIONIBVS 

Colophon  : 

ImprefTum  Augufte :  per  Erhardum  og- 
lin.  &  leorgiu  Nadler  Curallcorredione  et 
diligentia  venerabilis  domini  Wolfgang! 
Aittinger||pfpiteri  Auguftefi.  ac  bonarum 
Artium  zc.  Magiftri  Collonienf  II  Anno 
noftre  falutis  .1.50.  &  .8*  die  .22.  menjRs 
May.  zc.* 

hommes    illustres    de   Lorraine}    Bruxelles,  which  Joan   Ludd  filled    when  John    and 

8vo,   1754,  or   to  CALMET,  Notice   de  la  Nicholas  were  Dukes  of  Lorraine. 
Lorraine ;   Nancy,  fol.,  1756;   may  ascer-          *  Anglice  :   Dialogue  by  John  Stamler, 

tain  whether  this    Walter   Ludd  was  not  an    Augustine   [monk],  on    the   sects   of 

the  son  of  the  well-known  historian  Joan  diverse    nations   and   the  religions  of  the 

Ludd,  who  had    been  Secretary  to  several  World. 

dukes  of  Lorraine,  before  enjoying  the  per-          Printed  at   Augsburg  by  Erhard  Oglin 

sonal  friendship  of  Rene  II.     M.   Brunet  and  Georges  Nadler,  with  the  care,  correc- 

calls  him  a  printer,  and  considers  the  vig-  tion   and  industry   of  the   venerable  Mas- 

nette  in  the  above  Number  as  his  mark ;  ter  Wolfgang  Aittinger,  presbyter  of  the 

yet  the   colophon  of  the    present  Speculum  Augustine    order,  and    master    of  arts    at 

shows   that   he  held   to   Rene    the    office  Cologne,  A.  D.  1508,  May  2oth. 


IO2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  jjOo.  *  *  Folio,  title  +  two  preliminary  leaves,  -{-  thirty-two  numbered 
leaves,  +  an  index  of  two  leaves.  The  woodcut  title  by  Hans 
Burgmaier  is  repeated  on  the  reverse. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Washington  city,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

"  An  extremely  rare  and  curious  Drama  described  on  the  leaf  fol 
lowing  the  title  as  "  Dyalogus  in  modum  comici  dramatis  formatus  a 
J.  Stamler  de  Tartarorum,  Saracenorum,  Turcorum,  Judeorum  et 
Gentilium  Sectis  et  Religionibus  ac  eorundem  Confutatione,  &c. 
The  letter  from  Stamler  to  Jacob  Lorcher,  dated  13  Kal.  Junii  1506, 
is  of  the  highest  interest  to  American  collectors,  as  he  mentions  by 
name  Christopher  Columbus  and  Albericus  Vespucius  as  the  dis 
coverers  of  the  New  World.  The  Drama  has  a  marginal  Commen 
tary,  which  is  important  not  only  to  theologians  as  pointing  out  here 
sies,  but  also  to  the  astronomer.  Stamler  seems  to  have  been  an 
enemy  to  judicial  astrology." 

(LlBRI.1) 

We  give  the  passage  for  the  purpose  of  enabling  the 
reader  to  ascertain  whether  the  above  eulogium  tallies 
with  the  facts. 

Verso  of  the  second  unnumbered  leaf : 

De  infulis  aute  inuentis  mentione  nulla 
facio  :  Sed  Criftoferi  Colom  erunde  inue- 
toris  et  Alberici  Vefpucii  de  orbe  moderno 
inuento  (quibus  etas  noftra  potiffimu  de- 
bet)  quos  tibi  prefentibus  tra£tatulos  mitto 
confpicias.-f 

Direct  references  :  [      Bibliotheca  TAottiana,  Vol.   vn,  page  38 

PANZER,  Annalcs  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  137. 
ZAPF,  Annal.  Typogr.  Augustante,   page    38. 
Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  329. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  14. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  507,  gives  the  title  from  the  first  prelimi 
nary  leaf. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2603. 


f  Vi-z. :  I  do  not  make  any  mention  of  the  Albericus  Vespucius  :  On  the  discovery  of 
newly  discovered  islands,  but  of  Christopher  the  new  world  (to  whom  our  age  is  chiefly 
Colom,  the  discoverer  of  a  world,  and  of  indebted)  behold  what  treatise  I  send  you. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  103 

52.    STAMLER  (yo^)-DIALOGO  ||  DI  GIOVAN-    1508. 
NI||STAMLERNO  &N  \\guflenje  de  le  Jette  diuerje\\ 
genti^  e  de  le  religio- 1|  ni  del  mondo.  || 

Colophon  : 

Stampata  in  Vinegia  per  Giovanni  Pa  ||  douano,  del  mefe 
di  Febrairo.  || 
Page  2  : 

Toglie  adunque  pregati  padre  e  precettore  reuerendifjimo 
[Mattheo  Gurgenfe],  con  animo  placabile  e  gratiojo  quefta 
fimplice  e  picciola  noftra  dedicatione  :  laquale  fia  memoria  del 
tuo  deditiffimo  difcepolo  a  20  di  Agoflo.  1507. 

*„.*  8vo,  sine  anno,    one    hundred    and    fifty-one    pages,    entirely 
printed  in  italics. 

(British  Museum.) 


This  is  simply  a  translation  into  Italian  of  No.  51. 

Libri  Catalogue,  1861,  No. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  507. 


Direct  references  :  (  Libri  Catalogue,  1861,  No.  329. 
I" 


r-7.  BERGOMAS  (JAC.  PHIL.}— "  Supplementi  de  le  Chro- 
niche  vulgare  nouamente  dal  frate  Jacobo  Philippo  al 
anno  1503  vulgarizz.,  per  Francefco  C.,  Fiorentino. 
Vinegia,  1508,  in-fol. 

"  Contient  aux  feuillets  342  et  343  une  relation  de  la 
decouverte  de  r Amerique par  Ch.  Colomb" 

(CRETAINE:) 

As  regards  these  Italian  versions,  Clement2  gives 
one,  Venice,  folio,  1491,  which  he  calls  "la  plus  an- 
cienne;"  but  we  find  in  Brunet  another  of  1488,  Venice, 
fol.,  "  Volgarizzato  per  me  Francesco  C.  nella  nobilissima 


1  Catalogue,  Paris,  1863,  No.  73.  a  Biblioth.  Curieuse,  Vol.  ill,  p.  181. 


IO4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  Co8t  citta  di  Fiorenza  questo  anno  1488,"  which  is  followed  in 
.  Graesse3  by  what  would  be  an  earlier  one  still :  ff  Ven.^ 
Bern.  Rizo  de  Novara,  1481.  in-fol.,"  were  it  not  iden 
tical  with  Clement's  1491  edition.  We  then  find  the 
above,  which  escaped  the  lynx  eyes  of  Clement,  Haym, 
Niceron,  and  Fabricius ;  another,  folio,  Venice,  1 540*, 
and  I5535;  ibid.,  1554,  4to,  and  1573,  2  vols.  4to ; 
and  1581,  with  additions  borrowed  from  P.  Jovius, 
Bembo,  Carione,  and  Guazzo5. 

The  first  translation  was  made  by  one  Francisco  San- 
sovino,  notwithstanding  the  initial  C.  in  the  Cretaine 
and  Brunet  titles.  The  additions  in  the  Italian  edition 
of  1540  were  made  by  one  Bernardo  Bindoni. 


..  ALBERTINIS  (FRANCIS  DE)—"  De  Mirabilibus  novae 
&  veteris  Urbis  Romas.  Libri  III.  ex  Edit.  Andr. 
Fulvii  Praeneftini,  Romse.  in  4to.  Premiere  Edition. 

(CLEMENT7.) 

The  learned  Hessian  bibliographer  gives  this  title  on 
the  authority  of  the  Bibliotheca  Menkeniana,  page  196,  and 
seems  to  disbelieve  its  authenticity.  Panzer8  calls  the 
edition  of  1510  (<  Edifio  prima." 

55.  ZORZI  ALEXANDER)—  Paefi.  nuouamente  re- 
trouati.  &  Nouo  Modo  da  Alberico  Vef- 
putio  Flo-||retino  intitulato.|| 

Then  woodcut  filling  the  rest  of  the  page,  and  representing  the 
king  seated  on  a  throne  and  receiving  Vespuccius. 

Colophon  : 

CC  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impenfa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  dallLignano:  &  dili- 

8  Tresor,  Vol,  I,  p.  341.  *  MOLINI,  Aggiuntc,^-  239,  and  HAYM, 

4  HAYM,  Biblioth.  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  p.  52.  loc.  cit. 

8  NICERON,  Memoires  four  ser-vir  a  This-  7    Bibliothequc  Curieusc,  Vol.  I,  p.  zao. 

toire  da  hommes  illustres,  Vol.  XVII,  p.  223.  8  Annales,  Vol.  Till,  p.  249. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  105 

gente  cura  &  induftria  di  loanne  Angelo    1508, 
fcinzen  ||  zeler.    M.ccccc  vm.  a  di.  xvn.  di  = 
Nouembre.*|| 

Then  register  and  printer's  mark. 

*5|C*  Sm.  410,  seventy-nine1  unnumbered  leaves  ;  text  in  Roman. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  Harv.  Coll.  Libr.     In 
the  latter  the  title  is  only  a  fac-simile.; 

Direct  references :  f  Bibliotheca  Grcn<villiana,  page  764. 

NODIER,  Description  raisonnec}t3o.  1106. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1157. 

TERNAUX,  No.  12  [?].  We  have  not  yet  succeeded  in  finding 
any  traces  of  the  Vicenza  edition  of  1508,  mentioned  in  the 
Bibliothique  Americaine  (No.  n),  the  Li-vres  Curieux  (No.  109). 
and  the  Manuel  (Vol.  v,  col.  1158,  on  the  authority  of  Payne 
and  Foss'  catalogue  for  1830,  No.  3359).  We  think  that 
in  the  latter  MCCCCCVIII  should  read  MCCCCCVII. 


I 


PTOLEMY-BENEVENTANUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

N  HOC  OPERE||HAEC  CONTI  ||  NENTVR  || 
GEographiae  Cl.  Ptolemaei  a  plurimi  uiris 
utriuscg  linguae  doctiff.  ||  emedata  :  &  cu 
archetype  graeco  ab  ipfis  collata.  ||  SChe- 
mata  cu  demonftrationibus  fuis  correcla  a 
Marco  Beneuentano||  Monacho  caeleftino, 
&  loanne  Cotta  Veronenfi  uiris  Mathema- 
ticis||confultiffimis.||FIgura  de  proiectione 
fpherae  in  piano  quae  in  libro  o6tauo  de- 
fidera  ||  batur  ab  ipfis  nodum  inftaurata 

*  Countries  newly  discovered,  and  New          *  The   Livrcs    Curieux   (No.    118)  say 
World  of  Alberic  Vesputio,  called  the  Flo-     "  iv  feuillets  preliminaires,  et  80  feuillets 

of  John  Jacob  and  Br 

and  attention    and   ski  j 

Scinzenzeler.     November  I7th,  1508.  et  a  —  s   par  4. 


106  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1508.  fed  fere  ad  inuenta  eius.  n.  ueftigia  ||  in 
^~  nullo  etiam  graeco  codice  extabant.  ||  MAxi- 
ma  quantitas  die^  ciuitatu  :  &  diftantiae 
loco^  ab  Alexadria  ||  Aegypti  cuiufcp  ciui- 
tatis  :  quae  in  alijs  codicibus  no  erant.  || 
PLanifphaerium  Cl.  Ptolem^i  nouiter  re- 
cognitu  &  diligentiff.  emen-  ||  datum  a 
Marco  Beneuentano  Monacho  c^leftino.  || 
NOua  orbis  defcriptio  ac  noua  Oceani 
nauigatio  qua  Lifbona  ad||Indicu  perue- 
nitur  pelagus  Marco  Beneuentano  mo- 
nacho  caele-ll  ftino  aedita.||NOua  &  uniuer- 
falior  Orbis  cogniti  tabula  loa.  Ruyfch 
Germano||elaborata.||SEx  Tabulae  nouiter 
confectas  uidelicet  Liuoniae  :  Hyfpaniae  : 
Galliae  :||  Germaniae  :  Italiae  :  &  ludae.li 

CAVTVM  EST  EDICTO  IVLII.  II.  PONT.  MAX.  ||NE 
QVIS  IMPRIMERE  AVT  IMPRIMI||FACERE  AVDEAT  HOC 
IPSVM  OPVS  ||  PENA  EXCOMMVNICATIONIS  LATAE 
SENTENTIAE  ||  HIS  QVI  CONTRA  MANDATVM  IVS- 
SVMQ  VE  ||  CONARI  AVEBVNT.  .  |j  ANNO  VIRGINEI 

PARTVS  R°ME   * 


*  Large  folio  ;  title  one  +  thirty-four  preliminary  leaves  -j- 
seventy-one  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  blank,-)-  fourteen  leaves 
for  Marcus  Beneventanus'  Noua  orbis  descriptio  ac  noua  Oceani 
nauigatio  qua  Lisbona  ad  Indicu  peruenitur  pelagus  -\-  twenty- 
leaves  for  the  chapter  De  Tribus  orbis  partibus,  -\-  thirty-four 
maps,  illuminated. 

(Private  Librar.,  Brooklyn  and  Washington  city.) 


*  Anglke  :     Claudius    Ptolemy.       This     raphy  of  Claudius  Ptolemy  revised  by  many 
work  contains  the  following  :  The  Geog-     men  learned  in  both  languages,  and  com- 


Ribliotheca  Americana.  107 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  immediately  after  I  ^08. 
the  publication  of  AngeloV  and  de  Donis'2  Latin  trans-  — 
lations  of  Ptolemy's  Geography,  a  new  light  seemed  to 
dawn  upon  the  learned,  and  the  works  of  Strabo,  Soli- 
nus,  Isidorus  of  Seville,  and  even  Pliny,  "  maestre  de 
mappa  mundi,"  were  thrust  aside,  and  replaced  by  the 
Cosmography  of  the  Alexandrian  mathematician  or 
geographer,  which,  however  incomplete  it  may  seem  to 
us  at  present,  was  justly  considered  in  the  fifteenth  cen 
tury  as  a  model  and  a  wonder.  But  Geography  is  pre 
eminently  a  progressive  science ;  and  a  more  precise 
knowledge  of  the  voyages  and  discoveries  accomplished 
by  Machin,  Gilianez,  Baldaya,  Gonzales,  Nuno  Tristan, 
da  Cintra,  Denys  Fernandez,  Ca  da  Mosto,  Diego  Cam, 
Bartholomew  Dias,  Covilham  and  de  Payva,  together 
with  the  marvelous  accounts  of  Marco  Polo's  travels3, 
had  the  effect  of  convincing  the  geographers  of  the  times 
that  neither  the  Geographia  nor  the  twenty-seven  magnif 
icent  maps  of  Agathodai'mon  were  adequate.  But  as  to 
commence  a  new  Cosmography  was  an  undertaking  alto 
gether  beyond  their  scope,  and  averse  even  to  the  spirit 

pared  by  them  with  the  Greek  original;  man.     Six  maps  newly  constructed,  "vi%.  : 

Plates  with  their  explanations  corrected  by  of  Livonia,  Spain,  France,  Germany,  Italy 

Marcus  of  Benevent,  a  monk  of  the  Celes-  and  Judea. 

tine  order,  and  John  Cotta  of  Verona,  very          By  an  edict  of  Pope  Julius  II,  it  is  for- 

experienced  mathematicians.     A  planome-  bidden   to    print   this   work  or  to  have  it 

trical   representation  of  spheric    projection  printed  under  penalty  of  excommunication 

[  ?]  which  was  wanting  in  the  eighth  book,  pronounced  against  those  who  dare  infringe 

left  incomplete  by  the  same,  but  planned  this  order.     A.  D.  1508. 
according  to  his   [Ptolemy's?]    precepts;          a  Posthumous;    Vicenza,     folio,    1462 

and  of  which  there  were  no  traces  even  in  (Hoffmann)  or  1475  (Brunei). 
the  Greek  MS.     The  greatest  number  of         *  Ulm,  folio,  1482. 

traveling  days  [  ?  ]  between  cities,  and  the          3  Le   Li-vre    de  Marco   Polo,  citoyen    de 

distances    of  places    from    Alexandria    in  Venhe,  conseiller  prive  et   commissaire  im- 

Egypt,  which  were  not  in  the  other  codices,  ferial  de  Khaubilat-Kaan,  redige  en  fran- 

The    Planisphere    of  Cl.    Ptolemy   newly  fais  sous  sa   dictec,  en    1 398,  far  Rusticien 

revised  and   carefully  corrected   by  Marcus  de  Pise  ;  public  pour  la  premiere  fois  d^apres 

of  Benevent,  a  Celestine  monk.     A  new  trots   manuscrits   in'edits  de   la  Bibliotheque 

description   of  the   world,  and    a  new  de-  imferiale  de  Paris,  presentant  la  redaction 

scription  of  the  Ocean  whereby  one  goes  primitive    du    Li-vre,    re-vue    par    Marc- 

from   Lisbon    to  the  Indian  Ocean,  edited  Pol,  lui-memc  et   donnee  par  lul,  en  1 307, 

by  Marcus  of  Benevent,  a  Celestine  monk,  a     Thiebault    de     Cepoy,    &c.,    &c.,    par 

A  new  and  more  general  map  of  the  entire  M.    G.    Pauthier.       Paris,    2.    vols.    8vo, 

globe,  composed  by  John  Ruysch,  a  Ger-  1865. 


io8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

which  then  ruled  all  classes  of  scholars,  Ptolemy's  Geog- 
raphy  was  preserved  entire,  and  made  to  form  a  kind 
of  nucleus,  around  which  were  gathered  under  the  title 
of  "Extra  Ptolemeum"  the  results  of  all  subsequent 
investigations.  The  maps,  especially,  which,  when  first 
introduced  by  the  German  Benedictine  Nicholas  Donis, 
numbered  only  twenty-seven,  were  increased  in  number, 
and,  to  a  certain  extent,  perfected.  The  startling  dis 
coveries  of  Columbus,  Cabral,  Vasco  da  Gama,  Magel 
lan  and  others,  gave  a  new  impetus  to  the  geographical 
science,  which,  so  far  as  we  are  concerned,  culminated 
in  the  present  edition  of  Ptolemy,  which  contains  the 
first  engraved  map  representing  the  newly  rediscovered 
isles  and  hemisphere. 

"Jean  Ruysch  developpe,  pour  sa  table  universelle,  la  projection 
conique  sur  tous  les  360  degres  de  longitude,  et  jusqu'a  45°  de  la  lati 
tude  australe  :  de  cette  facon  il  deroule  toutes  les  nouvelles  decouvertes 
graduees.  Terra  sancta  cruets  sive  mundus  nouus,  ne  differe  en  rien 
de  ce  qu'on  voit  dans  1'hydrographie  portugaise4.  On  y  lit  en  has  : 
naute  Lusitani  partem  bane  terre  bujus  observerunt  et  usque  ad  eleva- 
tionem  poli  antarctici  50  graduum  pervenerunt,  nondum  tamen  ad  ejus 
finem  austrinum.^  Cependant  les  epigraphies  des  cotes  n'avancent  que 
jusqu'au  40°  degre,  comme  dans  1'hydrographie.  Tabula  terrae  novae 
de  cette  hydrographie,  reproduite  en  1513,  1520,  1522,  1535,  offre 
une  singuliere  erreur  dans  1'epigraphe  de  abbatia  omnium  sanctorum, 
au  lieu  de  bahia,  baya,  baie.  Cette  erreur  figure  dans  les  quatre  voy 
ages  edites  par  Ilacomil  [Hylacomylus],  On  croirait  que  cette  erreur 
est  inventee  par  1'editeur  Ilacomilus,  qui  probablement  coopera  dans 
la  publication  de  1'hydrographie.  Mais  la  carte  de  Ruysch,  attachee 
a  1'edition  romaine  de  1508  de  Ptolemee  a  laquelle  est  jointe,  nova 
orbis  descriptio  de  Benvenuti,  presente  la  meme  erreur :  or,  elle 
a  sa  source  dans  la  traduction  latine  de  Giocondo,  qu'en  1504  Ben 
venuti  expedia  de  Lisbonne  en  Lorraine  et  que  lui-meme  apporta  en 
Italic." 

4  Lelewel,  Humboldt  and  Santarem's  above  Ptolemy).  For  a  statement  tending 
constant  references  to  the  "  Portuguese  to  prove  that  the  said  Admiral  was  Colum- 
Hydrography,"  apply  to  a  map  ordered  bus  himself,  the  reader  may  consult  the 
from  Portugal  about  1504,  by  King  Rene  Ptolemy  of  1513  (infra). 
of  Lorraine,  who  took  great  interest  in  f  Viz.  :  The  Portuguese  mariners  ex- 
geographical  studies,  and  which  is  repre-  amined  this  part  of  the  earth,  and  went  as 
sented  to  have  been  drawn  by  an  Admiral  far  as  the  5oth  degree  of  the  elevation  of 
in  the  service  of  King  Ferdinand  of  Spain,  the  Antarctic  pole,  but  not  to  the  Southern 
(see  Essler  and  Ubelin's  preface  to  the  end  of  it. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  109 

"  Au  nord  de  ce  nouveau  monde  Ruysch  est  different  de  1'hydrogra-     I 
phie  portugaise."    II  ignore  beaucoup  plus  les  decouvertes  espagnoles." 

(L.ELEWEL6.) 

"  Quant  a  la  derniere  et  la  plus  remarquable  de  ces  cartes,  c'est-a- 
dire  la  mappemonde,  Jean  Ruysch  n'a  fait  que  la  dessiner,  et  c'est 
Marc  Beneventanus,  1'auteur  du  texte  qui  accompagne  cette  nouvelle 
description  de  1'univers,  qui  s'en  est  fait  1'editeur,  Mais  cette  circon- 
stance  n'amoindrit  en  rien  le  merite  de  1'allemand  Ruysch,  que  Bene 
ventanus  appelle  "  Geographorum,  meo  judicio,  peritissimus,  ac  in 
piugendo  orbe  diligentissimus,"  et  qui,  navigateur  intrepide,  parti  du 
sud  de  1'Angleterre,  en  compagnie  peut-etre  d'Americ  Vespuce,  etait 
parvenu  au  dela  de  1'equateur  jusqu'au  53°  de  latitude  australe,  et,  sous 
ce  meme  parallele,  avait  visite  plusieurs  iles  dans  le  voisinage  meme 
du  detroit  que  devait  decouvrir  Magellan. 

"  N'oublions  pas,  enfin,  qu'un  protection  plus  puissante  que  le  cardinal 
de  Nantes,  le  pape  Jules  II,  avait,  des  le  28  juillet  1506,  accorde  a 
1'editeur  Tosinus  un  privilege  de  vente  exclusive  pour  six  annees,  en 
recompense  de  ses  soins  et  frais  de  publication  pour  la  cosmographie 
de  Ptolemee,  accrue  de  la  description  et  position  des  terres  nouvellement 
decouvertes.  Cette  description  nouvelle,  cet  accroissement  de  texte, 
prouvent  que  deux  ans  avant  qu'il  fut  question  de  la  mappemonde  de 
Ruysch,  on  songeait  deja  a  constater  les  progres  recents  de  la  geographic. 

"  Le  privilege  de  vente  exclusive  fut  subordonne  a  un  autre  privilege, 
destine  a  le  moderer,  et  accorde  a  un  chanoine  de  Saint-Jean-de-La- 
tran,  bibliothecaire  et  familier  de  Jules  II,  charge  par  le  pape  de  fixer 
le  juste  prix  de  1'ouvrage  imprime  a  cinq  cents  exemplaires." 

(THOMASSI*.) 

The  present  Ptolemy  is  only  a  reprint  of  the  follow 
ing: 

"Bl.Ia,-  JN  HOC  OPERAE  (?)||HAEC  CONTINE  ||  TVR 
[  ?  ]  ||  GEOGRAPHIA  CL.  PTOLEMAEI.  A  plurimis  uiris  utriusq; 
linguae  dcctiss.  ||  emendata  :  &  cum  Archetypo  graeco  ab  ipsis  col- 
lata. — 1|  SChemata  cum  demonstrationibus  suis  correcta  a  Marco  Mo- 
nacho  Caelestino  Beneuen- 1|  tano :  &  loanne  Cota  Veronensi  uiris 
Mathematicis  consultissimis. —  ||  &c.,  &c. 

"El.  107  a  :  Nee  no  Claudii  Ptholemaei  a  plurimus  utriusq ;  ||  lin 
guae  doctiss.  emendatu  cum  multis  additionibus  Rome  (?)  No- 1|  uiter 
impressum  per  Bernardinu  Venetia  de  Vitalibus.  Expesis  ||  Euagelista 
Tosino  Brixiano  Bibliopola  [?]  Im  pante  Julio.  II.  Pont.  ||  Max.  An 
no.  III.  Potificatus  fui.  Die.  VIII.  Septebr.  M.  D.  VII." 

(HOFFMANN7.) 

6  Geographic  du  Moycn-Age,  Vol.  II,  T  Bibliographischcs  Lexicon  der  gesamm- 

p.  149.  ten  Litteratur  der  Gricchen  ;  Leipzig, 

8  Les  Popes  geographer  et  la  Cartographic  8vo,  1845  (an  excellent  work),  Vol.  Ill, 

du  Vatican,  p.  25.  p.  317. 


no  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COO.         "  In-folio,  avec   33    cartes.     Les   vingt-sept   premieres   cartes  sont 
___>>_^^^_  celles  de  1'edition  de  1478  [engraved  by  Conrad  Sweynheim  and  Ar- 
~  nold  Buckinck],  et  les  six  autres  ont  etc  nouvellement  gravees." 

(Labanoff  Catalogue8.) 

The  additions  consist  in  fourteen  leaves  for  the  chap 
ter  devoted  to  the  Nona  orbis  descriptio  together  with  an 
epistle  of  Tosinus,  the  bookseller,  and  the  celebrated 
map  of  Johannes  Ruysch,  which  is  wanting  in  the  edition 
of  1507.  This  map,  which  contains,  as  far  as  known, 
the  first  engraved  delineations  of  the  newly  re-discovered 
countries,  is  a  mappemonde  bearing  the  following  title  : 

VNI-VERSALIOR  COGNITI  ORBIS    TABVLA.    |    EX  RECEN-TI- 

BVS  CONFECTA  OBSERVATIONI-  Bvs.  The  strip  of  land 
representing  this  country  is  named  therein  TERRA  SANC- 
TE  CRVCIS"  SIVE  MVNDVS  Novvs,  covering  in  latitude 
from  90  N.  to  38  S. 

The  map  has  been  republished  by  de  Santarem10  and 
Lelewel11. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  VI II,  page  248. 

-I    REIDEL,  Comment,  critico-litt.  de   Claud.  Ptolem.  Geogr.,  page  52. 
I    FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Grteca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 

VAN  PRAET,    Catalogue   des   litres    imprimis    sur   f^e/in,   Vol.    v, 

No.  3,  describes  a  copy,  the  maps  of  which  (34)  are  on  vellum  ; 

also,  Groslier's. 
HUMBOLDT,  Examcn  Critique,    Vol.   n,   pages    5   and  9,   Vol.   IV, 

page  121. 

Memoires  de  la  Societe   de  Geographic,  for  February,  1837,  page  75. 
La  Valliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  in,  No.  4484. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  No.  3320. 
Mapotcca  Colombiana,  No.  I. 
Bibliotheca  Brcivortiana. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2258. 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  18224. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  954. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  500. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  page  170. 


8  Paris,  8vo,  1823,  p.  6,  Nos.  18  and  19.  and  nothing  else  !  This  very  prosaical  view 

8  "  La  Decouverte  ayant  ete  faite  sous  of  the  case   is  shared,  we  are  glad  to  see, 

les  auspices  de  la  Croix,  et  pour  letriomphe  by    the    learned    and     pious    Benedictines 

de    la    Croix,    cette    terre    nouvelle    etait  themselves.     See  Art  de  -verifier  les  dates, 

generalement  indiquee  sur  les  cartes  par  le  third  series,  Vol.  XI,  p.  II,  note. 
signe  et  le  nom   de  la   croix."     ROSELLY          10  Atlas  compose   de   mappemondcs  et   de 

DE  LORGUES,  Christophe  Colomb,  p.  6.      To  cartes  hydrographiques  et  historiques,  depuis 

which  we  say  that  Columbus'  transatlantic  le  ve  jusqu'au  xvne  siec/es. 
voyages  were    undertaken    for    the    "  tri-          u  Atlas   of  the  Geographic  du   Moycn- 

umph"  of  dealers  in  spice  and   groceries,  Age. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  1  1  1 

C  7  .     R  U  CRAMER  (JOBST.)—  On  a  scroll  encircling  a  globe  :  I  ^  O  O  . 

$etoe  unJef  atttJje  latt&te 
ttni  etn  $etoe  tort&te  in 
fur<j  tJcrpttget*  je^ljc  er-- 
fttttben. 

Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  leaf  preceding  the  table  of  contents  : 


l)at  ein  enbte  biefeS  SurfjteinJ  toel-  djeg 
!i)clli|d)cr  uirnd)  in  Die  betotfrfjenllgdtradjte  unD  flcmnditc 
ift  nun-Den,  twrrf)  !Den  tottbige  unD  {jorfjfldartljeu  Ijcrrf 
3ofi-  II  (ten  ^ui^amer  bet  fre^en  funfte,  unb  ar^-  II  enneien 
&c.  $nb  burt^  mit^  ©eor-  1|  gen  Studjffen  ^tt 
l,  ©ebrutfte  II  bnb  bolenbte  unri)  (Cl)rifti  dnfero 
lieften  Ijer  II  ren  gefiurbte.  5Dl.ccccc.tJiij.  3ttte,  am  SOlit-  II 
[mutt  lUirttijci,  be0  ^eUigen  nvaftoleiladcutijc'  bet  bo 
bet  ^iuei)ut^nifte  tage 


*:fc*  Folio  for  size,  but  the  signatures  are  :  one  blank  (for  a  i),  a  ij, 
a  iij,  two  blanks,  then  b,  &c.  Title  one  -|-  sixty-seven  un 
numbered  leaves,  text  in  two  columes. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Brooklyn  and  Providence.) 

We  have  seen  a  copy  of  the  same  date,  which  contains 
on  the  verso  of  the  title,  and  immediately  after  the  pre 
face,  a  curious  woodcut,  representing  a  man,  probably 

*  Anglke :  New  unknown  countries  and  learned  Mr.  Jobsten  Ruchamer,  doctor  of 

a  new  world  recently  discovered.  arts  and  medicine,  &c.  And  was  printed 

There  ends  this  little  book  which  has  and  finished  by  me,  George  Stiichszen,  at 

been  translated  from  the  Italian  language  Nuremberg,  A.  D.  1508,  the  Wednesday 

into  German  by  the  most  worthy  and  before  St.  Matthew's  September  2Oth. 


ii2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Ca  da  Mosta,  kneeling  before  a  King  who  is  surrounded 
•  hy  a  retinue  of  armed  men,  some  of  whom  are  mounted 
on  an  elephant. 

The  table  of  contents  is  not  reliable.  The  third  book 
is  therein  called  the  second,  the  fourth  is  taken  for  the 
third.  The  chapters  80-90,  91-101,  and  105-108,  con 
tain  the  first  three  voyages  of  Columbus.  The  fourth 
voyage  is  not  inserted  at  all.  The  work  presents  a 
remarkable  peculiarity  in  the  spelling  of  names.  Colum 
bus  is  called  Dawber  (male  pigeon),  Alonzo  Nino,  der 
Schwartze  (the  black),  Lorenzo  de  Medicis,  Laurentz 
artzt  (L.  the  physician).  As  to  Vespuccius,  the  reader 
will  find  only  the  third  voyage.  Humboldt1  says  that 
"  1'ouvrage  de  Ruchamer,  d'un  style  extremement  naif, 
est  plus  correct  et  beaucoup  mieux  redige  que  /'Ifinera- 
rium  Portugallensium"  (No.  58).  It  follows,  however, 
very  closely  the  text  and  arrangement  of  the  Paesi  nuoua- 
mente  retrouati  of  1507,  without  additions  of  any  kind, 
although  it  seems  to  have  been  made  on  the  Itinerarium. 

O 

This  work  is  not  as  rare  as  the  Italian  and  Latin 
versions  of  Zorzi's  Collection,  and  seems  to  have 
been  reprinted  several  times  in  the  same  year  and  place, 
but  without  any  alterations  in  the  text  or  pagina 
tion. 

Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  and  Annalen  der  alteren  deutsch.  Lit.  Vol. 

I,  page  298. 

MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  historica,  Vol.  ill,  page  2.20. 
CAMUS,  Memoire  sur  de  Bry,  page  6. 
TERNAUX,  No.  15. 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  11686. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1160. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  page  318,  No.  4491. 
Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  908. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvi/liana,  page  765. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vii,  No.  4262,  and  Part  vm,  No.  3069. 
Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  No.  19. 
Bibliotheca  Bre'wortiana, 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  15. 
Catalog.  Biblioth.  Buna-v.,  Vol.  II,  page  45. 

1  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  86-88. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  113 

^  8  .     ZORZI-MADRIGNANO—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  ^  O  O  . 


t  $tiftt<nrict  in  $Ma  ?  in  n 
frc  in  flcdfrcntcm  t  frcrnum 

a  i]  nil  011  cm. 


Then  a  large  map  of  Africa  filling  the  rest  of  the  page. 
Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

ITINERARIVM  Portugallenfium  ex  Vlif- 
bona  i  Indiam  nee  ||  non  in  Occidentem 
ac  Setemptrione  :  ex  Vernaculo  fermone 
in  ||  latinum  tradud:um.  Interprete  Arch- 
angelo  Madrignano  Medio  ||  lanenfe  Mo- 
nacho  Careuallenfi.* 

First  recto  of  signature  B  : 

Mediolani  Kalendis  Iimiis.  M.CCCCC.VIII. 

In  fine  : 

Operi  fuprema  manus  impofita  eft  ka- 
lendis  quintilibus.  Ludouico  gal||lia^  rege 
huius  urbis  iclite  fceptra  regete.  lulio 
fecudo  potifice  maxi-||ma  orthodoxa  fide 


*  Anglict  :  A  Portuguese  itinerary  from  to  the  West  and  to  the  North,  translated 

Portugal  to  India,  and  from  thence  to  the  from   the   vernacular  language  into  Latin, 

West,  and  lastly  to   the  North.       Portu-  by  Archangelus   Madrignano  of  Milan,  of 

guese  itinerary  from  Lisbon  to  the  Indies,  the  order  of  the  Carevalenses  (  ?  ). 


H4  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1508.  feliciter     moderate  :      anno     ntae     falutis 
.M.D.VIII.f 

*„*  Folio,  signatures  in  sixes  and  eights.  Title  i,  then  an  index 
of  two  unnumbered  leaves,  the  first  of  which  is  marked  aa; 
then  from  A  ii  to  B  (exclusive  of  B),  seven  unnumbered  leaves  ; 
then  text  in  eighty-eight  numbered  leaves,  the  last  through 
mistake  being  marked  LXXVIII.  The  last  signature  is  N  iii, 
followed  by  three  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington 
city,  and  Harv.  Coll.  Libr.) 

Camus1  and  Ebert1  say  that  there  should  be  eleven 
preliminary  leaves.  More  than  ten  copies,  including 
the  one  in  the  Dresden  Library  from  which  Ebert  made 
his  transcript,  have  been  examined  by  a  distinguished 
bibliophile  of  this  city  with  the  view  of  testing  the  asser 
tion  of  the  learned  and  unfortunate  Dresden  bibliog 
rapher,  but  in  no  instance  could  he  find  more  than  nine, 
or  ten  leaves  with  the  title-page.  It  should  be  noticed, 
however,  that  the  poetry  on  the  verso  of  the  last  unnum 
bered  leaf  seems  to  end  abruptly,  although  the  signature 
is  complete. 

As  to  the  index  it  is  said  to  be  rarely  found,  either 
at  the  beginning  or  end  of  the  volume;  yet  all  the  copies 
which  we  have  examined  in  this  country  (six)  have  it. 

In  the  Mus'ee  des  Souverains,  at  the  Louvre,  there  is  a 
splendid  copy  printed  on  vellum,  and  bearing  the  arms 
or  cipher  of  Henry  IP,  interlaced  with  that  of  the  beau 
tiful  Diane  de  Poitiers. 

The  present  is  a  Latin  translation  of  the  collection  of 
voyages  ascribed  to  Zorzi  (No.  48),  by  a  Milanese  monk 
called  Madrignano.  It  contains  the  navigations  of  Ca 
da  Mosto  (cap.  1-83),  three  of  Columbus  (cap.  84-108), 
Alonzo  the  Black's  (cap.  109-111),  Pinzon's  (cap.  112- 


f  Angl.:  Milan,  Kalends  of  June,  1508.  1  Memoires  sur  de  Bry,  p.  342. 

The  work  was  finished  July  1st,  under  the  2  Dictionary,  No.  10637. 

illustrious  reign  of  Lewis,  King  of  France,  3  VAN   PRAET,   Catalogue  des  livrei  im- 

and  under   the  Pope  Julius  II,    the    wise  primes    sur    •ve/in     de    la    Bibliotheque    du 

preserver  of  the  Orthodox  faith,  the  year  Roi  (Paris,  8vo,  1822-8);  Vol.  v,  p.  150, 

of  our  Salvation  1508.  No.  172. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  115 

113);  Vespuccius'  third  voyage  (cap.  114-124);  the 
navigation  of  Josephus  the  Indian  (from  cap.  129,  which 
should  be  numbered  128,  to  cap.  142)  ;  and  several  let 
ters  relating  to  Portuguese  voyages. 

"  La  redaction  de  la  traduction  latine  de  Madrigano  a  d'ailleurs  etc 
faite  avec  une  extreme  negligence.  De  la  division  en  six  livres  il  n'y 
a  d'indique  dans  le  texte  que  le  deuxieme  et  le  troisieme  aux  chap.  48 
et  71,  non  le  quatrieme  et  le  cinquieme.  Le  chapitre  114  traite 
d'Americ  Vespuce,  et  sans  la  table  des  matieres,  le  nom  du  navigateur 
dont  on  donne  le  voyage  resterait  inconnu." 

(HuMBOLDT*.) 

Direct  references  :  f  FOSCARINI,  Delia  Letter.  Vcncziana,  Vol.  I,  page  434,  note. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vu,  page  107. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvilliana,  page  765. 
Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  II,  No.  3080. 
PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  Till,  page  385. 
TIRABOSCHI,  Storia  della  Letter.  Ital.,  Vol.  VIII,  page  213. 
NAPJONE,  Del  Primo  Scofitrore,  pages  32-38. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  18. 
Bibliotheca  Bar/oiviana,  page  13. 
RICH,  No.  2. 
TERNAUX,  No.  13. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  474. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  in,  page  439. 

Kloss  Catalogue,  page  158,  No.  2187,  ascribes  the  printing  of  the 
present  to  Gotardo  de  Ponte. 


SABELLICUS  (MARK-ANT.)— "  Rhapfodias   Hiftoria-     I  COO, 
rum  Enneadum  MARCI  ANTONINI  Coccn  SABELLICI  ab  == 
orbe  condito  ;    pars  prima  complectens    quinque   En- 
neades  \_falfo>  nam  complectitur  tantum  quatuor]  fecunda 
tres,  tertia  quatuor. ;   ufque  ad  annum  1504;   praemiffis 
earundem  repertoriis  auctis  &  recognitis  ab  ASCENSIO 
cum  authoris  Epitomis :   Vosnundantur  in  Parrhifiorum 
Academia  ab  JOHANNE  PARVO  &  ipjo,  qui  imprejjlt,  ASCEN 
SIO.  fol.  Parif.  1509." 

(MAITTAIRE*.) 

"  Recusa  haec  editio  [our  No.   21]   Paris,  in  aedibus  Ascensianis 
1509.  2  Voll.  f.  ibid.  1513.  3  Voll.  f." 

(MEUSEL'.) 

4  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  p.  85.  6  Bibliotheca  Historica,   Vol.  I,   Part  I, 

*  Annalct  Tyf.,  Vol.  n,  Part  I,  p.  198.     p.  96,  sq. 


1 1 6  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COO.  60.      VESPUCCIUS   &    HYLACOMYLUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

(£051)10 1| VUpHic  tttte0  II  trbetto :  eum  quitufc 
tram  dieome-  ||trif  ae  &ftronomi£  princillpijs  atr  earn 
rem  II  necettartjs.  II  JJnfuper  pattuor  Emeriet  Be  II 
fpuetj  nauigattones.  II  Bniuerfalte.  (Eofmograpijif 
treferiptto  ||  tarn  in  foiitro  #  piano,  etg  etiamllinfertis 
qu^  ^tijolom^o  ||  tgnota,  a  nuperisi  II  reperta  funt.  || 
Otum  fceus  aftra  regat,  et  terrg  elimata  <&£far  II  iBtec 
tellug,  nee  eis  fgtrera  maiusi  patent  || 

Colophon : 


Jngenutfus  bit  Joannes  II  gruniger.  Enno  poft 
natu  fal-  II  uatote  fupra  fef(|uimil- 1|  lefimu  j^ono.  || 
Joanne  ^Itrelpijo  Wuliejo  &rgenttneft  eaftiga^ 
tore.  II* 


*^*  Sm.  410,  thirty-two  unnumbered  leaves,  diagrams,  description 
on  the  back  of  the  mappemonde,  so  called,  in  fourteen  lines, 
and  black  letter.  (There  is  an  issue  of  the  same  date  with  the 
said  description  in  fifteen  lines.  In  the  May  and  September 
editions  of  1507  it  is  in  Roman  characters). 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington 
city,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

See  the  recto  of  cij,  and  the  verso  of  ciiij. 

It  is  the  text  of  the  present  edition  which  has  been 
published  by  Navarrete1,  with  notes  and  a  translation 
into  Spanish.  We  quote  the  above  on  pages  59-60, 
under  the  name  of  Gruniger. 


*  Anglice :  The  ingenious   man,    John     the   corrector  John   Adolphus  Mulich  of 
Gruniger,  printed  this  work  at  Strasburg,     Strasburg. 
in  the  year  of  our  salvation  1509,  under         The  rest  as  in  No.  44. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Direct  references:  f       PiNELo-BARciA,  Epitome,  col.  574.  J   TOQ, 

PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  44.  •-'        * 


Colcccion,  Vol.  in,  page  183,  and  190,  sq. 

Bibliotheca  T/iottiana,  Vol.  VII,  page  219. 

Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  765. 

Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  in,  No.  4988. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  2O. 

Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  II. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2746. 

HUMBOLDT,  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  page  103 

TERNAUX,  No.  14. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  319. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  281. 


6 1.  ANONrMous.-$WMl$  ttlttttdl  I 
tio  Hue  treftriptio  tmmtri  II  et  tottus  orto  terrarum. 
globule  rotuntro  cotnparati  bt  fpera  foil  II  fca.  (Una 
cuittte  etia  meiriocriter  fcocto  atr  omlu  bitrere  licet 
an  II  tipoires  ette,  QUOT?  peires  noftrte  oppofiti  funt. 
IBt  paliter  in  bna-  II  pa$ :  orte  parte 
bitatn  agere  queunt  falutare,  fole  fin-  II  gula 
loca  illufttante:  QU^  tamen  terra  in  bacuo  aere  pen= 
tore  II  btoetur :  fold  fcei  nutu  fustetata,  alijg  $ ;  per? 
tnultig  tre  quarta  orto  II  terraru  parte  nuper  afo 
Emerieo  reperta.  II 

Then,  woodcut  representing  a.  globe,  in  which  the  New  World  is 
laid  down. 

In  fine : 

....  2Ealete  felieiter  ex  II  Argentina  bltima 
&ugufti.  anno  poft  natu  falutatore.  W.3i.$X. 
Joannes  gruniger  hnpri  II  metat.  ^itrelpijo  eaftiga= 
tore.ll* 


*  Angllce  :  The  World's  globe.      Expo-  can  see  with  his  own  eyes  that  there  are 

sition  or  description  of  the  world,  and  of  antipodes,  whose    feet   are   opposite   ours  ; 

the  terrestial  sphere  constructed  as  a  round  and   how   men  may  lead   a  healthy  life  in 

globe   similar   to  a  solid    sphere,  whereby  every   part   of  the  glole,  the  sun  shining 

every  man,  even  if  of  moderate  learning,  upon    the    different    parts   thereof,   which 


1  1  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COO  ***  Sm.  4to  (signat-  C  in  sixes),  fourteen  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Library.) 

"  C'est  dans  cette  brochure  tres  rare  aujourd'hui  que  j'ai  trouve 
employee  pour  la  premiere  fois  la  denomination  d'Amerique  pour 
designer  le  Nouveau  Monde,  d'apres  le  conseil  donne  par  Hylacomylus 
en  i  507.  L'auteur  anonyme,  que  Panzer1  a  cru  par  erreur  etre  Hen- 
ricus  Loritus  Glareanus  [see  infra]  ne  nomme  le  navigateur  florentin 
que  sur  le  titre  de  1'ouvrage  et  sans  faire  aucune  mention  de  Colomb." 

(HUMBOLDT9.) 

Direct  references:  f  1  PANZER,  Annales   Tyfogr.,~Vol.  vi,  page  445  mentions  also  on 

page  12,8,  of  the  same  vol.,  an  edition  sine  anno. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  v,  page  219. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvi/liana,  page  481. 

a  Examen   Critique,  Vol.  vi,  page   141,  and  introduction  to  Ghil- 
-   lany's  Behaim,  page  8,  note. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1252. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  in,  page  94. 

62.     fESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Mdjlitt  faget  toie 

intrdjlitditiajtf  Ijcrrr  Ijevr  Jymtauints. 
I  ^.  ju  ^aftUien  ||Unb  Jerr  ^manuel. 
^.  jit.  Portugal  jaften  bag  toetyte  ||  mor  erfii^et  ttnnb 
funbeu  nil  ^ufuleu  unnb  ein  Mdttuc  ||  melt  don  milben 
imrtcubcn  t'cittcn  tiorumls  dnbcf  ant.  || 

Then  woodcut  representing  two  kings  receiving  two  men  landing 
from  a  vessel,  at  the  top  of  the  picture  :  LISBONA. 

Colophon  : 

©ebrutft  jit  Strafflittrfj  bnrdj  Soljatte  ©rwtiger  II  3n 
iar.  lE.ccccc.  i|  toff  Setarc,  2Sie  bie  aBer  b^e  II  fitgel  tw 
bcfriircibuitg  ber  gan^enn  luclt  ucrftcn  foltt'  II  tuurft  bie 
finben  unnb  lefett.  ||* 


seems  to  be  suspended  in  the  airy  vacuum,  on  the  last  of  August,  A.  D.  1509,  printed 

supported   only   by    God's    will  ;    together  by  John  Griiniger  and  corrected  by  Adol- 

with   many  other  things    concerning   the  phus  (  ?  ). 

fourth   part  of  the  earth  recently  discov-          *  Anglicl  :  This  little  book  relates  how 

ered   by   Americus.     Farewell,   Strasburg,  the  two  most  illustrious  Lords,  Ferdinand, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  119 

*J|C*  410,  (signat.   B  and   C   in   sixes)  ;   thirty-two   leaves.     Large     I 
woodcuts  on  verso  of  B  i,  recto  of  D  iiii,  verso  of  E  iiii  and  of  ___ 
F  iiii,  the  last  being  a  repetition  of  the  vignette  on  the  title- 
page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  British  Museum.) 

German  translation  of  the  four  voyages  of  Vespu- 
cius,  probably  taken  from  the  Cosmographia  printed  by 
John  Gruniger. 


63.    VESPUCCIUS-HrLACOMYLUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  CIO. 

COSMOGRAPHIAE  INTRODVCTIO    CVM  QVIBVSDAM  — -^— 
GEOMETRIAE  ||  AC.  ASTRONO  ||  MIAE    PRINCIPIIS  ||  AD 
EAM   DEM   NECESSARIIS.il 

Infuper  quatuor  Americi  Vespuccii  || 
nauigationes.  Vniuerfalis  Chofmographiae 
defcriptio  ||  tarn  in  folido  qplano,  eis  etiam 
infertis  quae  Ptholomaeo  ||  ignota  a  nuperis  || 
reperta  funt.  || 

Then    eight    lines    of  verse    addressed    to    "  Dominvm    lacobvm 
Robertetvm." 

Colophon : 

Explicit  foeliciter  cofmographias  uniuer- 
falis  defcriptio  ||  cu  quattuor  Americi  uef- 
pucii  nauigatioibus  uigi,  ||  lantiffime  Im- 
preffa  per  lohanem  de  la  Place.  ||  Vt  nee 
mendula  quide  fuperit.  ||*  FINIS.  || 


King  of  Castile,  and   Emanuel,  King   of  you    shall    understand   the  globe  and  the 

Portugal,  have  searched  through  the  vast  description  of  the  whole  world,  that  you 

seas,  and  discovered  many  islands,  and  a  will  hereafter  find  out  and  read, 

new  world  of  naked  savages,  hitherto  un-  *  Anglice :  The  description  of  universal 

known.  cosmography,    happily  explained,  together 

Printed  at  Strasburg  by  John  Gruniger,  with    the    four    navigations    of  Americus 

in  the  year   1509,  on  Laetare.     But  how  Vespucius,  most  elegantly  printed  by  John 


I2O  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

IO«         *  *  Sm.  410,  title,  sine  anno  aut  loco  ;  title   one  +  thirty-two  un- 
_  numbered  leaves;  text  in  Roman;  two  simple  diagrams. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  Cette  edition,  tres-peu  connue,  a  dul  etre  imprimee  a  Lyon,  ou 
Jean  de  la  Place  exercait  des  1'annee  1510." 

(See   the   recto   of  D  iij  for  the   passage   relating  to 
America.) 


Direct  references  :  f  MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  page  265. 
-J    Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Vol.  Til,  No.  6409  (  ?). 
|    Bibliotheea  Grcn-vil/iana,  page  765. 

Bibliotheca  Barlo-wiana,  page  14. 
1  BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  318. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  281. 


64..   ALBERT  IN  I  (FRANC.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf,  within  an 

ornamental  frontispiece : 

OPVSCVLVM  DE  MIRABI-  ||  libus 
Nouae  &  ueteris  Vrbis  Romae  edi-  ||  turn  a 
Fracifco  de  Albertinis  Clerico  Flore  ||  tino 
dedicatumcp  lulio  fecundo  Pon.  Max.* 

Then  an  epigram  in  eight  lines,  addressed  to  Andrew  Fulvius,  the 
versifying  antiquarian;  followed  by  "  CVM  PRIVILEGIO." 

Colophon  : 

Impreffum  Romae  per  lacobum  Mazo- 
chium  ||  Romanae  Academiae  Bibliopolam 
qui  in-  ||  fra  paucos  dies  epythaphio^  opuf- 
culu  ||  in  luce  ponet  afto  Salutis.  M.D.X. 
Die.  iiii.  Febr.  || 


de   la    Place,  so  that   not   even    the  least  the  wonderful  things  of  the  new  as  well 

mistake  can  be  found.  as  of  the  old  city  of  Rome,  edited  by  Fran- 

The  rest  of  the  title  as  in  No.  44.  cis  de  Albertini,  a  Florentine   clergyman  5 

*  Anglice :    A    little    work    concerning  dedicated  to  Pope  Julius  II. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  121 

\*  Sm.  410,  title  one  +  one  hundred  and  two  unnumbered  leaves.     I  ^  IO« 

(Private  Library,  New  York.)       ____^___ 

"  Editio  prima." 

(PANZER1.) 

"  Francesco  Albertini,  dont  1'ouvrage  curieux  a  paru  deux  ans  apres 
la  mort  de  Colomb  [nay,  in  his  life-time,  if  the  edition  mentioned  by 
Negri  is  authentic],  ne  connait  aussi  que  les  decouvertes  de  Vespuce." 

(HUMBOLDT8.) 

After  speaking  of  the  Antiquities  of  Rome  in  a  man 
ner  which  stamps  him  as  the  first  archaeologist  of  his 
times,  he  speaks  "  De  noua  Vrbe"  and  by  a  slight  di 
gression  ends  the  book  with  a  section  De  laudibus  ciui- 
tatu  Florentine  et  Sauoensis,  in  which,  after  enumerating 
the  famous  orators,  writers,  painters  and  others  of  Flo 
rence,  he  thus  speaks  of  Vespuccius  : 

Recto  of  leaf  101  : 

" na  in  ||  nouo  mundo  Albericus 

Vefpulcius  (sic]  Flo.  miffus  a  fi||deliffimo 
Rege  Portugal.  Poftremo  uero  a  Catholill 
co  Hyfpaniaru  Rege  primus  adiuenit  nouas 
infu/ 1|  las  &  loca  incognita :  ut  in  eius  li- 
bello  Graphice  ap/||paret  in  Epiftola  eius 
de  nouo  mundo  ad  Lauren  ||  tium  luniorem 
de  medicis."-f~ 

Direct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  v,  Part  I  (index),  page   18. 
J   CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.  i,  page  120. 
j    MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  iv,  Part  2,  page   175. 
MAZZUCHELLI,  Gil  scrittori  d  Italia,  Vol.  I,  page  321. 
BANDINI,  Vita,  page  LII. 
NAPJONE,  Ragionamcnto,  page  101,  note, 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  VII,  page  222. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana, — . 
BRONET,  Vol.  i,  col.  135. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  I,  page  53. 


j-  Viz,.  :  In  the  new   world,   Albericus  describes  the  stars,  and  the  new  islands,  as 

Vespulcius  of  Florence,  sent  by  the  most  is  also  seen   in  his  letter   upon  the   new 

Christian   King  of  Portugal,  but  lastly  by  world,   addressed  to  Lorenzo   de  Medicis, 

the  Catholic  King  of  Spain,  first  discovered  junior. 

new  islands  and  unknown  countries,  as  is  :  Annalcs,  Vol.  VIII,  page  249. 

graphically  set  forth  in  his  book,  where  he  a  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  p.  209,  note. 

16 


122  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

151 0.*       65.  MAFFEI  of  VOLTERRA-"  Commentariorum  urban 
orum  Libri  xxxvm.    Paris.  1510.  f." 

(MZUSEL1.) 


I  I.  66.   MARTYR  (PETER}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


i0  babglmttai 


'ocmata 
;j)tgrammcitft 
Cum  prcmtegia 

Co  top  ban  ; 

TT  $mpteffum  ffiifpali  cu  fumma  triltgencia  per 
SlacoM  corum  ||  Merger  alemanu. 
mo  quingenteffimo,  xi.  mefe  bero 


1  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.   I,  Part  I,  certain  importance   to  the  editions  of  Ber- 

page  281.  gomas  published  in  Latin  and  Italian  after 

*  The  translation  into  Spanish  of  Ber-  1503. 

gomas'  Chronicle,  by  Narcis  Vinoles,  the  f  AngUce :  The  works  of  Peter  Martyr 

Valencian  poet  (Summa  dctodas  las  cronicas  Anglerius    of   Milan.       The    Embassy   to 

del  mundo,  Valencia,  folio,  1510),  although  Babylon,    the    Decade    of    the    Ocean; 

carrying  the  annals  as  late  as  the  war  of  poems,  epigrams.     With  privilege. 

Naples,  full  ten  years  after  the  first  voyage  Printed  at  Seville  with  the  greatest  care 

of  Columbus,  does  not  contain  the  chapter  by  James  Corumberger,  a  German,  in  the 

relating  to  America,  and  which  imparts  a  year  1511,  in  the  month  of  April. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  123 

*£*  Folio,  seventy-four  unnumbered  leaves,  text  in  Gothic  type,     I  $  I  I  • 
printed  in  two  columns.      The  decade   commences  on  signa-  _ 

ture  D  (twenty-first  leaf),  extending  to  the  verso  of  the  forty- 
fourth  leaf.  On  the  recto  of  the  forty-fifth  leaf,  there  is  a 
map  without  title,  representing  Cuba,  Hispaniola,  Bermuda 
and  the  coasts  of  Florida  and  Central  America.  The  text 
continues  on  the  verso  of  the  leaf  containing  the  map,  which 
evidently  belongs  to  the  work. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

Pietro  Martire  d' Anghiera  is  almost  always  called  Peter 
Martyr,  for  which  he  must  stand  responsible  as  he  was 
the  first  to  set  the  example1,  while  his  epitaph  bears  no 
other  name1.  We  call  our  author  Peter  Martyr,  as  it 
is  the  clearest  mode  of  quoting  him,  and  we  are  satisfied 
that  no  student  of  American  history  will  mistake  our 
quotations  for  references  to  Peter  Martyr  Festus,  Peter 
Martyr  Tronus,  Peter  Martyr  Vermilli,  or  Martyr  the 
Armenian  who  acquired  so  much  reputation  as  a  traveler 
towards  the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century3.  The  present 
Peter  Martyr  was  born  in  1455  (Niceron4),  or  in  1459 
(Antonio*,  Alcedo6}  at  Arona,  on  the  banks  of  Lake 
Major.  He  went  to  Rome  in  1483,  where  he  formed 
the  acquaintance  of  Cardinal  Ascanio  Sforza  and  of 
Pomponius  Laetus,  to  both  of  whom  many  of  his  letters 

1  To   the   reader  who  is    familiar   with  *  "  II  y  a  eu  quatre  S9avans  hommes  qui 

Peter  Martyr's  sportive  style,  it  is  evident  ont  porte  le  nom  de  Pierre  Martyr.    Scavoir 

that  the  remark  "Italus  quidam  Martyr  Pierre  Martyr  dit  Anglariensis  de  Milan, 

nomine  ad  Curiam  se  nuper  contulit,"  &c.  qui  a  fait  les  Decades  du  nouveau  Monde. 

(Efist.  xxv,  p.  10;  Amsterd.  edit.),  applies  Pierre   Martyr    Festus    d'Urce  ville  d'Es- 

to  himself.  pagne,  qui  a  publie  Summarium  Conttitutio- 

a  RERVM  AETATE  NosTRA  GESTARVM  num  fro   rcgimine    Ordinis    Prefdicatorum. 

ET  NOVI  ORBIS  IGNOTI  HACTENVS  Pierre  Martyr  Tronus  de  Novarre  en  Italic, 

ILLVSTRATORI  PETRO  MARTYRi  MEDioLANSi  qui  est  1'Auteur  d'un  Livre,  De  ulceribut 

CAESAREO  SENATORI  &    -vulncribus  copttis.     Et  Pierre    Martyr 

ojn  PATRIA  RELICTA  Vermil,  dont  M.  de  Thou  a  fait  1'Eloge." 

BELLO  GRANATENSI  MILES  INTERFVIT  (TESSIER,    Elogcs    dcs    Hommcs    Scavans, 

MOX    VRBE    CAPTA    PRIMVM     CANONICO  Vol.  I,  p.  2d8.) 

DEINDE  PRIORI  Hvivs  ECCLESIAE  *  Memoircs  pour  ser-vir   a    rhistoirc   da 

DECANVS  ET  CAPITVLVM  hommcs  illuftrcs  dans  lar'ep.  dcslettres;  Paris, 

CARISSIMO    COLLEGAE    POSVERE    SEPVLCHRVM        I2tno,    1727-45,  Vol.   XXIII,   pp.   209-12. 

ANNO  MDXXVI.  '  Biblioth.  Hi  if  an.  Nova,  Vol.  n  (Af- 

"  posta  nel  Duomo  di  Granata,  e  riferita  dal  pendices),  p.  372. 

Mazzucchelli"     (CANCELLIERI,   Disserta-         *  Bib'.ioteca  Americana   (MS.),  Vol.    I, 

Kiotti,  p.  212,  note.)  p.  48- 


124  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CI  I.  are  addressed.  He  repaired  to  Spain  with  Count  Ten- 
,  dilla  in  1487,  joined  the  Spanish  army  in  the  war  against 
the  Moors  in  1488,  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1494,  and 
was  appointed  during  the  same  year  tutor  to  the  chil 
dren  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  or  only  preceptor  of 
the  royal  pages.  Peter  Martyr  was  intrusted  in  1501 
with  a  diplomatic  mission  to  the  Sultan  of  Egypt,  which 
is  related  in  his  Legatio  babylonica  (I.  e.  Cairo).  As  a 
reward  for  his  having  dedicated  this  work  to  Pope 
Leo  X,  he  was  appointed  Apostolical  Prothonotary 
(one  of  the  twelve  members  of  a  college  intrusted  with 
the  custody  of  the  last  wills  of  cardinals,  and  with  the 
proceedings  for  the  canonization  of  saints)  ;  and  in 
1505  obtained  the  much-coveted  office  of  Dean  of  the 
chapter  of  the  Cathedral  of  Granada.  He  died  in  that 
city  after  August  1525,  or  in  1526  (Alcedo}.  The  friend 
or  contemporary  of  Columbus,  Vasco  da  Gama,  Cortes, 
Magellan,  Cabot  and  Vespuccius,  a  member  of  the 
Council  of  the  Indies,  he  was  enabled  to  obtain  valuable 
information  in  regard  to  the  great  Oceanic  discoveries, 
the  substance  of  which,  with  some  additions  of  his  own, 
is  embodied  in  his  Decades  or  "  Oceanics." 

There  is  an  impression  among  Italian  bibliographers, 
based  probably  upon  the  assertion  of  Caballero7  or  a 
mistake  in  the  Bibliotheca  Filenbroukiana*  (afterwards 
corrected  in  the  index),  that  the  first  Decade  was  pub 
lished  at  Seville  as  early  as  the  year  1 500.  Panzer9  and 
Hain10  repeat  this  assertion,  but  Mazzuchelli",  with  his 
usual  acuteness,  exhibits  the  fallacy  of  the  statement. 
The  earliest  edition  known  is  the  above,  which,  if  Bru- 
net's  description  is  correct,  must  have  been  printed  twice 
in  the  same  year  and  place,  as  Brunei's  title,  which  dif 
fers  from  ours,  was  likewise  taken  from  an  original  which 
he  had  "  sous  les  yeux." 

Leon  Pinelolz  asserts  that  all  the  Decades  of  Peter 


7  De  prima  Typogr.  Hisp.  (Rome  1793,          n  Gli  Scrittori  tf  Italia,  doe  notizie  sto- 
4to),  p.  80.  richc    e   critic he ;    Brescia,  fol.,    1753-63, 

8  Vol.  n,  No.  1181.  Vol.  I,  Part  2,  pp.  773-7. 

8  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  IT,  p.  339.  ia  Epitome,   p.    68;  and    Barcia's   edit. 

10  Rcpcrtorium,  No.  10863.  Vol.  I,  col.  579. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  125 

Martyr  were  printed  in  1511,  which  is  evidently  an 
error.  The  present  edition  contains  only  the  first  de- 
cade,  which  was  republished,  together  with  the  second 
and  third,  at  Alcala  in  1516  (infra).  This  collection  of 
three  decades  was  again  printed  separately  at  Basle,  folio, 
1533  (infra),  and  at  Cologne,  8vo,  in  I57413. 

The  entire  eight  decades  were  not  published  until 
I53°j  folio,  Alcala  de  Henarez  (infra).  Ternaux14, 
Brunet  and  Graesse  mention  a  Paris  folio  edition  of- 
1536,  while  Pinelo-Barcia,  with  his  usual  inaccuracy,  adds 
to  the  list  of  imaginary  editions,  one  of  1540,  and  an 
other  of  1557.  The  Paris  edition  by  Hakluyt15  is,  as  we 
have  since  ascertained,  erroneously  considered  the  best. 

Extracts  from  the  fourth  Decade,  known  as  de  in- 
sulis  nuper  repertis  liber,  were  published  in  Latin  at 
Basle  in  1521  (infra),  in  all  the  editions  and  transla 
tions  of  the  Novus  orbis16 ;  in  French  by  Simon  de 
Colines  in  1532  (infra),  and  added  to  the  Antwerp 
edition  of  Brocard's  Description  of  the  Holy-Land 
(1537,  infra).  The  German  translation  mentioned  by 
Graesse17  contains  the  first  three  decades  and  the  ex 
tracts  from  the  fourth.  An  abridgement  in  Italian18 
was  printed  under  the  title  of  Sommario,  in  1534  (infra). 
We  have  the  authority  of  Leon  Pinelo19  for  the  asser 
tion,  repeated  by  Antonio5,  that  a  descendant  of  Peter 
Martyr  translated  the  Decade  into  Spanish,  but  it  is 
doubtful  whether  this  translation  ever  was  printed.  As 
to  the  English  versions20,  they  are  well  known. 

18  De   Rebus    Oceanicis,    et   Nova    Orbe,  Relation!  del  S.   Pietro  Martire  Milanese, 

decades  tres,  &c.,  24  prel.  11.,  683  pp.  Venice,  8vo,  1564,  is  only  a  translation  of 

14  Bibliotheque  Amiricainc,  No.  47,  bis.  the  Legatio  babylonica,  and  therefore  be- 

16  De  orbe  novo,  &c.,  Paris,  8vo,  1587,  longs  only  to  the  Eibllothlqut  Asiatlquc. 

8  prel.  11.,  605  pp.,  12  unnumb.  11.,  map.  l9  "  IVAN   PABLO    MARTIR    Rizo,   des- 

See  Bullet.  Soc.  Geogr.  Oct.  1858,  p.  271.  cendiente  de  don  Pedro  Martir,  conocedo 

18  Peter  Martyr  de  insults  nuper  refer-  cuesta  Corte,  por  las  obras  que  ha  impresso, 

tis  liter,  No.  17,  pp.  570-584  of  the  Basle  tiene  traduzidas  las  Decadas  de  su  bisabuelo 

edit,  of  1 5  32.  en   Castellano,   para    dar    a  la    estampa," 

17  Petrus  Martyr    -von  Meylandt  ....  Epitome,  p.  69. 

Vcrtcutschct  durch  Nic.   Honiger -von   Ko-  ao  The  Decades  of  the  New  Worlde  .   .   . 

nigshofen.     Basle,  fol.,  1582;  in  the  Tresor,  translatcdintoEnglysschcbyRycharde  Eden.; 

Vol.  i,  p.  130.  London,  4to,   1555,  24  prel.  11.,  361  11.  $ 

18  If  we  may  judge  from  the  title,  the  and  1 3,  contains  the   first  three  Decades, 


126  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 1.        Peter   Martyr  seems   to   have  written   other  works, 
-.—.  which  were  printed.    Pinelo-Barcia",  mentions  a  History 
of  the  Palestinians,   Tyrians   and  Sidonians  ;    and  An 
tonio,  a  Synopsis  of  Pliny's  Historia  naturalis. 

Direct  references:  (  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  120. 
'   MORELLI,  Operette,  Vol.  i,  page  291. 
TERNAUX,  No.  16. 

Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vri,  page  95. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  Vi,  No.  214. 
Bibliotheca  Brotvniana,  No.  21. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  I,  col.  292. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  129. 


6y.  MAFFEI  OF  roLTERRA— "  Commentariorum  urban- 
orum  RAPHAELIS  POLATERRANI  (sic]  octo  &  tringinta 
libri  ....  Venundantur  Parrhifiis  in  via  lacobea 
loanne  paruo  &  lodoco  Badio  Afcenfio,  ad  kalendas 
lulias  anno  falutis  noftre  1511.  in-fol.  folior.  414.  fi 
duplicem  indicem." 

(FREYTAG1.) 

6  8 1   PTOLEMT-STLfANUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf,  printed  in  red : 

CLAVDII  PTHOLEMAEI  ALEXANDRINI 
LI  ||  BER  GEOGRAPHIAE  CVM  TABVLIS 
ET  ||  VNIVERSALI  FIGVRA  ET  CVM  AD  || 
DITIO  NE  LOCORVM  QVA  ||  EA  RECENTI- 
ORIBVS  REFER  ||  TA  SVNTa  DILIGENTI  || 
CVRA  EMENDA||TVS  ET  IM  ||  PRESSVS.|| 


and  extracts  from  the  last  five.      The  His-  trie  and  fainefull  Trauaile  of  M.  Lok  Gent.; 

tory    of  Tra-vayle   in    the    West   and  East  Lond.,  410,  1612;  5  prel.  11.;  318  11.    Idem 

Indies,  .   .  by  Eden;   newly   set   in   order,  opus;   Lond.,  410,  1628. 

augmented,  &c.,  by  Richard  Willcs  ;  Lon-  21  Loc.  cit.,  col.  1469. 

don,  410,  1577  ;   10  prel.  11.,  466  11.,  4  11. ;  *  Analecta  Lift.,  page  1063,  and   Catal. 

contains  the   first   four   Decades,   and    an  Bib/.  Lugd.  Bata-v.,  page  206. 

abridgment    of  the   remaining    four.     De  2  "  C'est-a   dire,   au   sud   1'Afrique ;  a 

No-vo  Orbe,  .   .   by   Eden,  .  .   .  ivhereunto  Test  les  relations  de  Marco  Polo  j  a  1'ouest, 

the  other  fine  are  newly  added  by  the  indus-  terra  crucis,  les  iles  du  nouveau  monde  et 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  127 

Verio  of  the  title,  after  a  series  of  verses  to  the  reader,  by  loannes     I  £  I  I 

Aurelius  Augur  ellus  : 

Sylvanus  anotationes  in  Ptholemaei  geo- 
graphiam.  || 

Colophon  : 

Venetiis  per  Jacobum  Pentium  de  leu- 
cho  ||  Anno  domini.  M.D.XI.  Die  xv  ||  Meniis 
Martii.  ||  * 

*£*  Folio,  four  preliminary  leaves  +  fifty-seven  of  text,  and,  in  a 
perfect  copy,  twenty-eight  maps.  The  present  contains  only 
twenty-seven,  viz. :  One  for  a  mappemonde,  ten  for  Europe, 
four  for  Africa,  and  twelve  for  Asia ;  nor  are  the  maps 
colored.  The  Labanoff  copy  contains  "  les  28  cartes"3.  We 
infer  that  the  map  wanting  in  our  copy  is  a  second  mappe 
monde,  and  probably  that  which  is  reproduced  in  Lelewel's  At 
las,  and  described  in  the  Mapoteca  Colombiana. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  En  la  carta  jeneral  de  la  tierre  hasta  entonces  conocida  en  Claudii 
Ptolemaei  Geographia  cum  28  tabulis  ligno  incisis  etc.  Venetiis  1511 
fol.  que  es  la  primera  de  las  28,  se  ve  la  terra  Ste.  Crucis  (Brasil) ; 
la  Isla  Espanola." 

(Mapoteca  Colombiana*."] 

"  Les  cartes  sont  d'autant  plus  remarquables  qu'elles  furent  les  pre 
mieres  imprimees  d'apres  un  nouveau  precede ;  les  planches  etaient 
gravees  en  bois,  et  percees  de  trous  aux  endroits  ou  doivent  se  trouver 
les  noms  des  lieux,  afin  de  les  y  placer  en  caracteres  ordinaires  d'im- 
primerie  ;  1'ecriture  devint  alors  plus  lisible,  mais  les  cartes  offrirent 
un  effet  desagreable  a  1'ceil." 

(Labanoff  Catalogue.) 

Bernard  Sylvanus,  of  Eboli  (in  the  kingdom  of 
Naples),  was  a  geographer  of  remarkable  learning, 

terra  Laboratoris  :  sont  figurees  sur  la  pre-  supplement   containing   the    places  which 

miere    carte,    mappemonde    de    Ptolemee.  have  been  discovered  by  recent  navigators. 

A  cet  effet  il  a  donne  un  developpement  de  Carefully  corrected  and  printed.     Annota- 

108°  de  la  longueur  de  1'habitable,  de  70°  tions  of  Sylvanus  to  Ptolemy's  Geography, 

tant    a    Test    qu'a    1'ouest  :    ainsi    qu'elle  Venice,  by  James  Pentius  de  Leucho, 

s'etend  sur  320°  de  longueur."    LELEWEL,  A.  D.  1511,  March  151)1. 

G'eogr.  du  Moyen  Age,  Vol.  n,  p.  151,  n.  3   Catalogue  des  Cartes  Geographiqua  dc 

*   Anglicl  :     The     book     of    Claudius  la  Bibliotheque  du  Prince  Labanoff;   Paris, 

Ptolemy  of  Alexandria  on  Geography,  to-  8vo,  1823,  p.  7. 

gether  with  maps,  a  mappemonde,  and  a  *  London,  8vo,  1860,  p.  i,  No.  2. 


128  Bibliotheca  Americana 

boldness  and  imagination.  His  work  can  scarcely  be 
called  an  edition  of  Ptolemy's  Cosmographiay  for  he 
undertook  therein  to  remodel  Ptolemy  himself,  by 
means  of  data  borrowed  from  modern  navigators,  which 
he  interspersed  with  such  erroneous  conjectures  boldly 
set  forth  as  facts,  that  no  reliance  whatever  can  be 
placed  upon  his  maps,  text,  or  assertions.  Withal, 
Sylvanus'  Ptolemy  is,  in  a  cartographical  point  of  view, 
an  extremely  curious  book.  Lelewel  says5  that  the  maps 
are  "  admirables,  d'une  forme  seduisante  et  plus  pro- 
portionnee,  plus  harmonieuse  que  les  constructions  de 
ce  genre  de  geographies  posterieures."  Raidel6,  on  the 
other  hand,  seems  to  entertain  a  contrary  opinion. 

Direct  references :  f  FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Grteca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 
PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  Tin,  page  405. 
BAUER,  Biblioth.  Suppl.  Vol.  Ill,  page  210. 
NAPIONE,  Del  Prime  Scopritore,  page  87. 
ZURLA,  Sulle  Antiche  mappc,  cap.  XXVIII. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vn,  page  104. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  VII,  No.  52,33. 
VAN  PRAET,  Catal.  des  livres  sur  -velin,  Vol.  ill,  No.  4;  Lomenie 

Catalogue,  Part  in,  page  66,  No.  383  ;  MacCarthy  Catal.,  Vol. 

II,  No.   3876;   Bibliotheca  Hohendorfiana,  page   83,  No.  500; 

BRUNET,  Vol.  IT,  col.  954;   Libri  Catalogue,   1859,  No.  2176, 

all  for  copies  printed  on  vellum. 


ICI2.          6g.    STOBNICZA  (JOHN  DE)— "  Introductio  in  CLAVDII 

5=5— =—=  PTHOLOMEI  Cofmographiam  :   cum  longitunibus  &  lati- 

tunibus  regionum.      Cum  Carmine  Sapphico  Rudolphi 

Agricolae  ad   Epifcopum    Posnanienfem   Joannem  Lu- 

8  Loc.  cit.,  Vol.  II,  p.  152.  Europe  enerratione  a  Ringmanno  Philesio 
8  De  Ptolem.  Geogr.  ejusq.  codicibus  ;  vosigena  conscripta.  Argentorati  ex  offic. 
Nuremb.,  410,  1737,  p.  55.  Johannh  Grunigeri  [1511,  in  4.  folior. 
*  Walsee-muller,  alias  Hylacomylus,  oc-  21]  (LELEWEL,  Geogr.  du  Moyen  Age, 
cupies  such  a  peculiar  position,  owing  to  Vol.  II,  page  143),  contained  some  details 
the  publication  of  the  St.  Die  Cosmography,  of  interest  concerning  the  subject  before 
that  everything  which  he  ever  wrote  on  us  ;  but  if  we  may  judge  from  the  interest- 
kindred  subjects  must  prove  of  interest  to  ing  and  apparently  exhaustive  analysis 
the  collector  of  books  on  America.  We  given  by  FREYTAG  (Analecta  litteraria  de 
were  in  hopes  that  the  "  Instructio  manu-  libris  rarioribus ;  Leipzig,  8vo,  1750,  page 
ductionum  prestans  in  cartam  itinerariam  449),  we  apprehend  that  the  search  would 
Martini  Hilacomili  cum  luculentiori  ipsius  prove  fruitless. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  129 

branfki.    ImprerTum  Cracoviae  per   Florianum    Ungle- 
rium  Anno  Domini  MCCCCCXII.  4. 

"  lanodana  I.  p.  8.  it.  p.  237.  Bibl.  Scbw.  tun."* 

(PANZER1.) 

Concerning  this  Polish  geographer,  we  could  only 
find  two  or  three  passing  notices1  of  the  most  insignifi 
cant  character.  Those  who  have  access  to  Lelewel's 
Bibljograficznych  Ksiag  dwoje\  may  be  more  fortunate. 

The  present  isagogic  treatise  contains  important  pas 
sages  relating  to  America,  which  the  reader  will  find  in 
our  description  of  the  edition  of  1519.  There  are  two 
copies  of  this  rare  work  in  Vienna  (Kaiser  liche  H  of  & 
Staats  Bibliothek).  The  statement  to  the  effect  that  it 
contains  a  map  with  the  word  "  America"  inscribed  is 
doubtful.  According  to  Kunstmann4,  the  map  is  a  very 
imperfect  woodcut,  almost  illegible.  The  New  World 
is  drawn  as  a  continent,  from  50°  N.  lat.  to  40°  S.  lat.  ; 
and  from  the  Equator  to  the  Tropic  of  Capricorn  there 
is  an  inscription  running  along  a  coast  line  west,  with 
the  words:  "terra  incognita."  Judging  from  the  de 
scription  given  by  Kunstmann,  the  map  does  not  seem 
to  bear  anywhere  the  name  of  America.  It  has  been 
supposed  that  it  was  an  intercalated  map  ;  but  from  the 
passage  in  which  the  author  gives  instructions  to  make 
the  editions  of  Ptolemy  serve  for  the  late  discoveries,  it 
is  evident  that  it  belonged  originally  to  the  work.  It 
is  often  wanting.  Kunstmann  states  that  the  date  of 
1512,  given  by  Panzer,  is  not  to  be  found  in  the 
Vienna  copies,  which  contain  at  the  end  only  these 
words  :  "  Impressum  Cracoviae  per  Florianum  Ungle- 
rium"  and  no  date  whatever. 


*  Anglice  :    Introduction    to    the    Cos-          *   Annales,  Vol.  VI,  p.  454. 
mography  of  Claudius   Ptolemy,  together          2  Vossius,  de  Natura  artium,  lib.  in,  p. 

with  the  latitude  and  longitude  of  places.  148  ;  Re-vue  Gcrmaniquc  ,•   Paris,  Vol.  vm, 

With  the  Sapphic  poem  of  Rudolph  Agri-  p.  205. 

cola  to  John  Lubranski,  Bishop  of  Pos-         3  Wilna,  8vo,  1823-26,  Vol.  i. 
nania.       Printed   in    Cracovia   by    Florian          4  Die   Entdeckung    Americas  ;    Munich, 

Ungler,  A.  D.  1512.  4to,  1859,  p.  130,  sq. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

7O.     MONTALBODDO*  (F.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

i  nonamft?  rdron- 
110  no  JUon^o 


Then  vignette  representing  the  king  receiving  Vespuccius. 
Colophon  : 

C  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impefa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  da  Lignallno:  & 
diligente  cura  &  induftria  de  loanne  An- 
gelo  fcinzezeler  :  nel.  M.  II  cccccxn.  adi. 
xxyil.  de  Mazo  II 

*s|c*  Sm.  410,  seventy-five  unnumbered  leaves,  including  title  and 
three  leaves  of  tables;  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references  :  f  Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  461,  No.  8377. 
4  BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1158. 
(C.  R.  (Riva  of  Milan)  Catalogue,  Paris,  1856. 

71.  "EUSEBii  C&SARIENSIS  Epifcopi  Chronicon :  quod 
Hieronymus  prefbyterdivino  eius  ingenio  latinum  facere 
curavit,  et  ufque  in  Valentem  Caefarem  Romano  adiecit 
eloquio.  Ad  quern  &  Profper  &  Matthasus  Palmerius, 

*  The   following   note,  which   we   have  emplaire  du   Patsi  nuouamtntt  ritrovati  de  Fra- 

iust  received  from   M.   D'AvEZAC,  enables  f  n?io  dc  Montalboddo,  Vicence  1507,  auquel  il 

...  fit  de  nombreuses  additions  de  pieces  manuscntes 

us   to  correct  the   mistake   we    had   fallen  dont   la    date  descend   au   moins  jusqu'en   i;z4; 

into    (on    the    authority    of    Baldelli    and  c'est  une  des  legeretes  d'Alexandre  de  Humboldt 

Humboldt),  when   describing  the  preced-  d.e  ra.voir  .Prls  f,our ',l"aut'ur,,  mSmJe  d,e  la  collcc- 

...      ''     ,    ,  tion  impnmee.        (See   Bulletin    di    la    Sociiti  dt 

ing  editions  of  the  present  work  :  Giografhit,   Paris,   for   October,   1857,    Note   x, 

"Alexandre  Zorzi  a  etc  le  ftsitsstur  d'uii  ex-      page  312.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  131 

&  Matthias  Palmerius,  demum  &  Johannes  Multivallis 
complura  quae  ad  haec  ufque  tempora  fubfecuta  funt 
adiecere. — Abfolutum  eft  in  alma  Parifiorum  Academia, 
per  Henricum  Stephanum,  in  formularia  literarum  arte 
opificem,  illius  maxima  cura  &  diligentia,  nee  non  eiuf- 
dem  &  Jodoci  Badii  in  hoc  opere  fociorum  non  parvis 
expenfis.  Anno  ab  incarnatione  domini  cuncta  guber- 
nantis,  millefimo  quingentefimo  duodecimo.  Idibus 
vero  lunii.  In-4." 

(MAiTTAiRZ1  and  RENOUARD*.) 

We  could  find  only  one  copy  of  a  Paris  edition  of 
Eusebius'  Chronicon,  printed  by  Stephanus,  in  1512. 
It  is  in  the  British  Museum,  and  was  once  the  property 
of  Abp.  Laud.  We  had  it  examined,  and  the  report  is 
that  it  extends  only  to  A.  D.  449.  As  the  title  is  want 
ing  we  are  unable  to  state  whether  it  is  the  same  edition 
mentioned  by  Renouard,  with  the  remaining  leaves  torn 
off,  or  whether  it  is  a  different  edition  not  containing 
the  additions  of  Matthias  Palmerius  (to  1481),  and  of 
one  John  Multivallis  (to  the  year  of  the  impression). 
Bibliographers  are  familiar  with  an  edition  of  the  Chroni- 
con  of  1512,  owing  to  the  circumstance  that  it  contains, 
under  the  year  1457,  a  statement  which  is  often  quoted 
in  favor  of  the  claims  of  Guttenberg  to  the  invention  of 
printing3;  but  judging  from  the  following  notice,  which 
we  clip  from  a  booksellers'  catalogue4,  it  seems  that  this 
edition  of  the  Bishop  of  Cesarea's  Chronicon  (which  in 
its  original  form  was  written  before  A.  D.  338),  deserves 
a  place,  however  small,  in  our  Bibliotheca. 

"  Sous  1'annee  1500,  on  trouve  une  notice  sur  les  voyages  de  Cada- 
mosto,  &c.,  sous  la  date  1509,  une  notice  dit  que  1'on  a  amene  a  Rouen 
sept  Sauvages  de  F  Am'erique  du  Nord,  &c.,  on  y  mentionne  que  leur 
pays  est  situe  sous  le  meme  meridien  que  la  France." 

1  Annahs  Typographic!,  Vol.  II,  Part  3  "  .  .  .  ratia  1440.  in-venta  ;"  in 
I,  p.  231.  MAITTAIRE,  /or.  cit.,  p.  232,  note. 

9  Annalti  det  Estitnnt,  p.  15,  No.  15.  4  Cretaine's,  Paris,  1863,  No.  98. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

r  i  2          This  passing  notice  is  interesting  when  added  to  the 
.  following  from  Charlevoix5 : 


"  La  meme  annee  [1508]  on  vit  en  France  un  Sauvage  du  Canada, 
qu'un  Pilote  de  Dieppe,  nomme  Thomas  Aubert,  y  avait  amene." 


I  C  I  7.        72.  SABELLICO  (MARK- ANT. y-"  Rhapfodiae  Hiftoriarum 
Enneadum,  2  torn,  folio.  Parifiis,  apud  Afcenfium,  1513." 

(PANZER*  and  KLOSSS.) 

Doctor  Kloss'  annotation,  "  Ed.  ii."  is  erroneous,  as 
this  must  be  at  least  the  third  edition. 


.   BERGOMAS  (JAC.  PHIL.)—  Within  an  ornamented  border  : 

SVPPLEMENTVM 


rum  at  ipfo  jttunfci  lExorfcfo  nfcp  atr  retiemptto 

nte  j^oftr^  ^Innum  .ffi.ttttt.x.  etritutn,   IBt 

fime  recognitut.ll  35t  caftigatum 

Jacolio  ^ijilippo  ISergomate  ortrints 

atrtriti^  per  eu,  II  tiem  Euctore  $  pluritus  btiiiffimi^ 

r  neceffa  II  rijs  atrtrtttonitug,    &tt  n5  elegati 

ia  II  nouiter  excogitata  quae  omnta  mtritice 

.  ||   <Ett    (§ratta    \Woodcut   representing     St.    Michael} 


Colophon  : 

C  Explicit  fupplementum   fupplementi 
Chronicarum    Dili  ||  genter    Et    Accurate 


6  Histoire  de  la  Nou-vcl/c  France  ;  Paris,          1  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vin,  p.  642. 
4to,  1744,  Vol.  i,  p.  XIV.  a  Catalogue,  p.  241,  No.  3386. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  133 

Reuifum   Atcj  Correctu.     Vene||tiis  im-    1513. 
preffuz  Opere  &  impenfa  Georgii  de  Ru  ||  == 
fconibus  Anno  a  Naitiuitate  Xpi  .M.D.  || 
XIII.     Die  .xx.  Augufti.     Regnate    Leo 
nardo  Lauredano  ||  Venetiarum  Principe.ll* 

*x*  Folio,  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  numbered  leaves. 

(Boston  Athenaeum.) 

The  chapter  tc  De  quattuor  p'maximis  infulis  in  India 
extra  orbem  nuper  inuentis"  commences  on  the  verso  of 
folio  329. 

Direct  references  :  (  PANZER,  Annalts  Typogr.,  Vol.  viu,  page  415. 
\  Kloss  Catalogue,  page  49,  No.  670. 


74-.     PTOLEMr-ESSLER-UBELIN— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

ClcmMi 
t>iri 

Mathematic^  difcipline  Philofophi  ||  doc- 
tiffimi  ||  Geographi^  opus  nouiffima  traduc- 
tione  e  Gr^co  ||  rum  archetypis  caftigatif- 
fime  preffum  :  c^teris  ||  ante  lucubratorum 
multo  pr^ftantius.  ||  Pro  Prima  parte  con- 


*  Angllce  :  Supplement's  Supplement  to  supplements  were  added  by  the  same 
the  Chronicles  from  the  beginning  of  the  author,  together  with  a  newly  elaborate 
world  to  the  year  of  our  Redemption  table,  which  explains  everything.  With 
1510.  Very  recently  revised  and  cor-  Grace  and  Privilege.  Venice,  printed  by 
rected  by  the  Venerable  Father  James  Georges  de  Rusconi,  A.  D.  1513,  August 
Philip  of  Bergamo,  of  the  order  of  the  zoth,  under  the  reign  of  Leonard  de  Love- 
Hermits.  The  most  useful  and  necessary  dano,  Prince  of  Venice. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1513.  tinens  ||  i  Cl.  Ptolemei  Geographiam  per 
octo  libros  partitam/ 1|  ad  antiquitate  fuam/ 
integre  &  fine  ulla  corruptione.  ||  2  Vna 
cum  collatione  di6tionum  grecarum  e  re- 
gione||ad  latinas  certiffima  graduum  cal- 
culatione.  ||  3  Regiftrationem  item  nouam 
regionum/  praefecliurarum/  ciuitatum/  flu- 
minum/  marium/  lacuum/  portuum/  filua-|| 
rum/  oppidorum/  villarum  ac  gentium/ 
ad  ordinem  ||  chartarum  &  columnarum 
fingula  certiffimo  mon  ||  ftrans  indice.  ||  4 
Qua  breuis  &  do&iffima  Gregory  Lilij 
fubfequitur  in- 1|  ftru6tio  de  Gr^co^  numer- 
ali  fupputatione/  in  tradu- 1|  cftione  greca  res 
fcitu  aurea.  ||  5  Tabularum  dein  Auctoris 
vigintifeptem  ordo  hie  eft  ||  Generate  orbis 
iuxta  defcriptione  Ptolemie  Vna.  ||  Europe 
tabule  Decem.  ||  Aphric^  tabule  Quat- 
tuor.  ||  Afi^  tabule  Duodecim.  ||  Eft  &  una 
corporis  Spherici  in  piano  iuxta  fine.  7. 
li.  ||  Pars  Secunda  moderniorum  luftrati- 
onum  Viginti  tabu  ||  lis/  veluti  fupplemen- 
tum  quoddam  antiquitatis  obfo  ||  lete/  fuo 
loco  que  vel  abftrufa/  vel  erronea  vide- 
ban-lltur  refolutiffime  pandit.  ||Adnexo  ad 
finem  tractatu  ficuti  lecliu  iucundiflimo/  || 
ita  &  utiliflimo  de  varijs  moribus  &  ritibus 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  135 

gen-  ||  tium  :   eorundemqj  ac  localium  no-    1513 
minu  originibus.  ||  Breuis  continentia  Libri.||  <=^ss 
Oppida/  regna/  lacus/  montes/  &  equora/ 
filuas/ 1|  Ac  hominum  mores  hie  Ptolemeus 
habet.  ||  Cum  gratia  &  priuilegio   Imperi- 
ali||  per  4  annos.  II 

Colophon,  verso  of  the  seventy-second  leaf: 
ANNO      CHRISTI    OPT.     MAX.      MDXIII.     MARCH 

xii.  ||  Preffus  hie  Ptolemeus  Argentine  vigi- 
lantiffima  cafti- 1|  gatione/  induftriacg  loan- 
nis  Schotti  ur-  ||  bis  indigene.  ||  REGNANTE 

MAXIMILIANO  CAESARE  ||  SEMPER  AVGVSTO.  || 

*£*  Large  folio,  title  one  leaf-f-  one  unnumbered  leaf-j-  leaves 
numbered  from  5  to  60  -|-  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves  for  the 
index  -f-  twenty-six  maps  on  double  leaves  -|-  another  title- 
page  -(-  twenty  maps  +  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves  for  Tracta- 
tus  de  locis  mundi. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Owl's  Head.) 

The  merit  of  this  edition  of  Ptolemy's  Geographia  is 
great,  for  it  not  only  corrects  Angelo's  translation  by 
means  of  a  Greek  manuscript  until  then  unknown,  but 
it  contains  twenty  new  maps ;  among  which  the  reader 
will  notice  the  first,  bearing  the  title  of:  ORBIS  TYPVS 

VNIVERSALIS      IVXTA      HYDROGRAPHORVM      TRADITIONEM, 

and  presenting  on  the  left  of  the  reader  a  promontory, 
with  five  inscriptions,  and  two  islands  (viz.:  " IJabella 
and  Jpagnolla"}  ;  and  the  second  map,  which  is  headed  : 
TABVLA  TERRE  NOVE.  The  latter  is  very  full,  consider 
ing  the  times,  as  it  shows  a  prolongation  of  the  coast 
from  a  certain  "Rio  de  cananor"  to  a  cape  fc del  mar  uji- 
ano"  There  are  not  less  than  sixty  names  along  the 
coast,  besides  the  inscription  afterwards  so  frequently 
reprinted : 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1513.      |^ec  terra  rum  atrtaeenttttf  infulis  tnuenta  eft  per 
(golumM  ||  lanuenfem  esmantrato  i&egis  &afteiie. 

This  inscription  is  on  the  section  which  corresponds 
to  what  we  now  call  Yucatan,  and  is  followed  by  the 

WOrds  TERRA  INCOGNITA. 

These  two  maps  acquire  a  certain  importance  from 
the  following  lines,  which  we  extract  from  the  preface 
on  the  verso  of  the  second  title-page  : 

Charta  aute  Marina/  quam  Hydro- 
graphiam  vocant/  per  Admiralem  quondam 
fereniffi.  Portugal^1  regis  Ferdinand!/  ce- 
teros  deniqj  luftratores  veriffirnis  pagra- 
tioibus  luftrata. 

This  passage  has  doubtless  prompted  the  opinion 
that  the  first  of  the  two  maps  above  described  had  been 
depicted  by  Columbus  himself. 

"  Nous  voyons,  says  Santarem2,  que  la  carte  marine  etait  appelee 
Carte  de  F ' Amiral,  ainsi  elle  fut  primitivement  dressee  par  Colomb 
ou  par  Cabral,  mais  jamais  par  Vespuce,  car  celui-ci  n'a  pas  eu  ce 
grade  eminent.  II  parait  hors  de  doute  que  la  carte  ainsi  designee  a 
etc  dessinee  soit  par  1'Amiral  Colomb,  soit  par  ses  ordres  soit  d'apres 
ses  decouvertes." 

Kloss3  calls  this  edition  "  Ed.  ix." 

Direct  references  :  f  FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Grteca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 

PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  VT,  page  60. 

RAIDEL,  Comment,  critico-lit.  de  C.  Ptol.  page  56. 

HOFFMANN,  Bibliogr.  Lexicon,  Vol.  m,  page  317. 

HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  page  109. 

LELEWEL,  G'eogr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  n,  pages  157-160. 

Mapotcca  Colombiana,  No.  3,  for  the  statement  that  "  en  la  edicion 
de  Londres  de  1535  [Lyons?]  se  halla  este  mismo  mapa  con 
algunas  modificaciones  reducida  a.  36.  395." 

BEAUPRE,  Rccherches  sur  rimprim.  en  Lorraine,  page  83. 

GRAESSE,  Tresor,  Vol.  V,  page  501,  states  that  "Dans  quelques 
exemplaires  la  souscription  de  la  seconde  partie  est  datee  1512." 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  955. 


1  Ferdinand    of  Spain    is   evidently   in-          a  Recherches  sur  Am'erlc    Fespucc  et  ses 
tended,  as  Ferdinand  of  Portugal  died  Oc-     voyages,  p.  165. 
tober  22d,  1383.  8  Catalogue,  p.  237,  No.  3321. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  137 

J  jj.     CATANEO  (J.  M.\~Within  an  ornamented  border  :  *  5  *  4" 

IO:   MAll  ~~ 

Ctttatwi 


of  the  title-page  : 

Data    Roma   calendis    Februarii.    M.D. 
XIIII. 

Colophon  : 

€  Impreffum  Romae  apud  lacobum  Ma- 
zo-||chium  Ro.  Acad.  bibliopolam. 


*£*  4to,  sine  anno,  eleven  unnumbered  leaves  -f-  one  blank. 

(British  Museum.) 

Cataneo  was  a  clergyman  of  greater  classical  attain 
ments  than  poetical  genius.  A  native  of  Novarra1,  he 
died  at  Rome  in  1529%  rich,  envied,  and  was  secretly 
buried  by  his  enemies,  who  wished  to  enjoy,  under  his 
name,  the  emoluments  arising  from  his  benefices.  The 
touching  epitaph  composed  on  that  occasion  by  one 
Mirteus3  is  well  known. 

Cataneo  wrote  at  the  request  of  his  benefactor,  Car 
dinal  Bendinelli,  a  Genoese,  a  poem  in  praise  of  the  city 
of  Genoa,  which  is  the  present,  and  contains  some  verses 
concerning  Columbus  and  his  voyages. 

Direct  references  :  (  Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  I,  No.  1476. 
\  Tross'  Catalogue,  1865,  No.  i. 


1  Vossius,  de  Historicis  Latin.,  p.  684.        Elogia  doctorum  Virorum.     In  the  Italian 

2  MORERI,  Dictionnaire,  Vol.  II,  p.  204.     translation  before  us  (Venice,  I2mo,  1558) 

3  The  epitaph  is  to  be  found  in  Jovius,     it  is  on  p.  166, 


138  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

7^'     ABERTUS  MAGNUS-TANNSTETTER— Within  a  border  : 

Habes  in  hac  pagina.  Amice  le/ 1|  £tor. 
ALBERTI  MAGNI  ||  Germani  principis 
philofophi.  ||  De  natura  locoru.  Libru  mira|| 
eruditioe  &  fingulari  fruge  re/  ||  pertu,  & 
iam  primu,  summa  diligetia  reuifum/  in 
lucem  ||  aeditu/  que  legis  dilige/ 1|  tius/  fi.  uel 
Cofmogra/ 1|  phia  uel  Phifica  p.feciffe  te 
uo- 1|  lueris.  || 

Colophon : 

Excufum  VIENnae  Auftriae  .  Mens  . 
Mar  .  M.D.  XIIII.  ||  Opera  HIEROnymi 
Vi6toris  &  IOAN  .  Sin/||grenii  Socio^,  di- 
ligentiu  impreffoty  .  Impe-  ||  fis  uero  LE- 
onhardi  &  LVcae  Alantfe  II  fratrum  Ciuium 
Viennenfiu.  ||  Imperante  Diuo  MAXIMI- 
LIANO  Carfare  Aug.  ||  P.  F.  P.  P.  II 

*;|c*  410,  fifty-two  unnumbered  leaves  ;  large  woodcut,  representing 
five  imperial  shields,  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf. 

(British  Museum.) 

First  edition  given  by  Georges  Tannstetter,  sometimes 
called  Collimitius,  and  interesting  to  the  American  col 
lector  on  account  of  the  following  marginal  note,  which 
seems  to  have  been  inserted  with  movable  type  after  the 
book  had  been  printed. 

Recto  of  the  last  leaf  in  signature  e  : 

Ecce  cocludit  ||  vltra  eqno6ti  ||  ale.  50. 
gradi  ||  bus  terra  effe  ||  habitabile  eg  ||  Vefpu- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  139 

tius  fu  ||  pioribus  an-  ||  nis  in  fuis  na  ||  uiga-    I5I4« 
tionibus  ||  inuenit  &  de-  ||  fcripfit.* 

77.    IDEM  OPUS—"  De     Natura    Locorum,     edente 
Georg.  Faunftelter  (sic). 

"  Ed.  ii  Argentorati,  Math.  Schurer,  &c.,  1514,  4to. 
VI-  73^  389  [Panzer]." 

(Kloss  Catalogue.1) 

Owing  to  the  want  of  liberality  exhibited  by  narrow- 
minded  owners  of  the  Annales  of  Panzer  in  New  York 
and  Philadelphia,  we  are  unable  to  ascertain  in  what  re 
spects  the  present  edition  differs  from  the  following,  and 
whether  there  is  not  an  error  in  the  imprint  as  to  the  date. 

7  8 .     IDEM  OPUS— Within  an  ornamental  border :  I  C  I  C , 

Habes  in  hac  pagina.  Amice  lector/ 
AL-  ||  BERTI  MAGni  Germani  pricipis  II 
philofophi/  De  natura  locorum  Li  ||  brum 
mira  eruditione/  &  fingula  ||  ri  fruge  refertu/ 
&  iam  primum  ||  fumma  diligetia  reuifum/ 
in  ||  luce  editum/  quern  leges  diligetius/  vel 
fi.  Cosmo  II  graphia  vel  Phyiica  ||  profecnTe 
te  vo-  ||  lueris.  || 

Colophon : 

Argentorati.  Ex  Aedibus  Matthiae  Schu- 

*  Anglice :  Lo !  he  concludes  that  beyond  smacks   of  heresy,  if  we  may  judge  from 

the  ecliptic,  in  the  5Oth  degree,  that  region  certain   passages  in  the  works  of  many  of 

which  Vesputius  in  his  voyages  in  former  the  fathers,  and  especially  in  ST.  AUGUS- 

years  discovered  and  described,  was  habit-  TINE,  De  Ci-vitate  Dei,  xvi,  9. 

able.  *  Page  7,  No.  705  and  GRAESSE,  Tresor, 

This    opinion    from    Albertus    Magnus  Vol.  I,  p.  55. 


140  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1515.  rerij  ||  Menfe   lanuario.   M  D.  XV.  ||  Dudu 

-  Leonhardi,  &  Lucae  Alantfe  fratrum. 

*#*  410,  forty-three  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto.  Below  the 
colophon  a  woodcut  representing  two  griffins  supporting  a 
shield. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  Dans  1'edition  de  Strasbourg  dont  je  me  sers,  et  qui  a  paru  trois 
ans  apres  la  mort  d'Amerigo  Vespucci,  1'editeur,  George  Tanstetter, 
est  si  emerveille  des  conjectures  d'Albert  le  Grand  sur  les  terres  de 
Phemisphere  austral,  habite  jusqu'au  50*  degre  de  latitude,  qu'il  y  re- 
connait  une  prophetic  accomplie  par  la  navigation  d'Amerigo  Ves 
pucci."  (HUMBOLDT2.) 


ALBERIINI  (FRANCIS.  DE)—"  De  mirabilibus  novae 
&  veteris  Urbis  Romae,  &  de  Laudibus  Civitatum 
Florentiae  &  Sauonae.  Romae  1515.  ap.  Jac.  Mazochium 

in  4tO."       (CLEMENT».) 

See  supra,  No.  64. 

8  O .     SCHONER  (J  OHN}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

fimtlcitttfrim a   quarta  H 

terrae  totius  trefcriptio:  cii  muitis  bttliffitnig  &tfz\\ 
mographiae  iniciis.  Nouacj  &  q  ante  fuit 
verior  Europae  noftrae  forma-  ||  tio.  Praeterea, 
Fluuioru  :  montiu  :  prouintiaru  :  Vrbiu  :  & 
gentium  qpluri-  ||  mom  vetuftiffima  no- 


5  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  I,  p.  57.  Vossius,   de    Histor.    Latin.,   p.    672,   and 

1  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.   I,  p.  1215      Gallarini's  Catal.,  Rome,  1856,  No.  695. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  141 

mina  recentioribus  admixta  vocabulis.  Mul-    1  5  T  5( 
ta  etia  ||  quae  diligens  lector  noua  vfuicg  fu-  = 
tura  inueniet.  || 

Then  an  epigram,  in  eight  lines,  from  John  Hiltner,  followed  by 

<£um  ^rtuUegto  Snutetif.  i&amanoru  Jmpera, 
iilaxtmiltani  per  ©cto  annos  :  ne  quts  hnprimat  : 
aut  tmprimere  procuret  coirices  fjos  :  cum  i&lotte 
<£ofmograpt)icte  :  fufc  muieta  quintitiaginta  flore- 
norum  Henen.  et  amitttotte  amnin  exemplar  ium.  || 

Colophon  on  recto  of  leaf  6$  : 

^f  Impreffum  Noribergae  I  excuforia  offi- 
cina  ||  loannis    StuchfTen.     Anno    domini. 


*s|c*  410,  title  one,  with  arms  on  the  verso  +  eleven  unnumbered 
preliminary  leaves  +  one  unnumbered  leaf  with  woodcut  rep 
resenting  a  large  globe  on  a  stand  ;  then  sixty-five  numbered 
leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

"  JEAN  SCHONER,  ne  1477  a  Karlstadt  en  Frankonie,  vir  rerum  matbe- 
maticarum  excellens  (Apiani  cosmogr.  II.  p.  33),  cultivant  la  science 
a  Bamberg,  commen9a  a  fabriquer  les  globes1.  A  cet  effet,  en  1515, 
il  publia  un  ouvrage  [the  above].  II  y  confectionna  en  1520,  aux 
depends  de  Jean  Seyler,  un  globe  du  diametre  de  2,  8  pieds  de  Paris. 
Appele  en  1526  a  Nuremberg,  comme  professeur,  il  y  transporta  son 
globe,  qui  y  est  encore.  En  1532,  fabriquant  un  globe  pour  le  due 
de  Saxe,  il  publia  deux  nouveaux  renseignements  sur  1'utilite  des 


*  Anglice  :    A  most   luminous   descrip-  Emperor  of  the  Romans,  Maximilian,  for 

tion    of  the   whole    earth,   together    with  eight  years,  to  the  effect  that  nobody  shall 

many  very  useful  elements  of  Cosmography,  printer  have  any  of  these  books  printed 

A    new   and   truer   description   of  Europe  with  the  cosmographic  globe,  under  penalty 

than    any  of   the   preceding   ones.      The  of  500  Rhenish  florins  and  the  loss  of  all 

oldest  names  of  rivers,   mountains,   cities  the  copies. 

and  of  most  nations,  have  been  compared          Printed  at  Nuremberg  in  the  establish- 

with  the  recent  ones  j  the  reader  will  also  ment  of  John  Stuchssen,  A.  D.  1515. 
find  many  other  things  new  and  useful  to         1  Copies  of  which  are  inserted  in  SANTA- 

him.  REM,  Atlas,  No.  I  30;  GHILLANY,  Geschichte 

With   the    privilege    of  the    invincible  d.  Behaim  ,•  and  LELEWEL,  Atlas. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  ^«    globes.     II  mourut  en  1547  [1567*]  et  pendant  sa  vie  ses  globes  re- 

_  pandaient   1'image   modernisee   de   1'habitable   de   Ptolemee,  nova   et 
quam  ante  fuit,  verior  Europas  formatio" 

(LELEWEL3.) 

The  reader  may  consult  with  advantage  (especially 
after  having  read  the  passages  relating  to  Vespuccius  in 
the  Opusculum  geographic um  of  the  same  author,  see  infra) , 
the  cap.  xi,  fol.  60,  which  begins  in  these  words : 

AMERICA  {lue  Amerigen  no-  ||  uus 
mundus :  &  quarta  orbis  pars :  didia  ab 
eius  inuetore  Americo  Vefputio  viro  faga- 
cis  ingenii :  qui  earn  reperit  Anno  domini. 
1497.  In  ea  funt  homines  brutales  (sic)  .  .  . 

Direct  references  :  |    PiNELO-BARClA,  Epitome,  Vol.  II,  col.  1009  (  ?  ). 
PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  VII,  page  455. 
DOPPELMAYR,  -v.  d.  nurnberg.  Mathematicis,  pages  45-50. 
GHILLANY,   Gcschichte   d.  Behaims,  pages    58,   note,   and  66,  ij.  ; 

quoting  : 

WILL,  Niirnberg.  Gelehrtenlexicon,  Vol  in. 
Bibliotheca  Brcivortiana,  — . 
Butsch  Catalogue,  Nos.  396  and  397. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  y,  col.  216. 


O  I  •     IDEM  OPUS — Surmounting  a  large  globe  on  a  stand : 

ORBIS  TYPVSn 

At  the  bottom  of  the  page  : 

Hexaftichon  loannis  Coclei  in  libellum 

Followed  by  six  verses  in  small  Gothic. 


a  Vossius,  de  Natura  Artium,  Lib.  nr,  LER,  Historia  Astronomic  (Wittenberg,  410, 

p.    126;    and,   if  our    memory  serves   us  1741). 

right,  in  GASSENDI,  Vita:  Braheri,   Coper-  '  Geographic    du    Moyen-Agt,    Vol.   n, 

nici,  &c.  (Paris,  410,   1655),   and   WEID-  page  176. 


Bibliotbeca  Americana.  143 

Recto  of  folio  65  :  I      I 


nis  Schoner  :  omnes  Aftrorum  imagines 
continente  :  ||  aliquot  verfus  loannis  Hilt- 
ner. 

Followed  by  eight  lines  of  poetry  and 

II  Impreffum  Noribergae  I  excuforia  offi- 
cina  II  loannis     Stuchffen.    Anno    domini. 


*;jc*  Sm.  410,  title  one  +  sixty-five  numbered  leaves.  On  recto  of 
folio  1  6,  another  woodcut  of  a  globe  on  a  stand.  It  contains 
two  tracts;  the  first  ends  on  verso  of  folio  14. 

(Private  Library,  Washington  city.) 

We  insert  this  title,  not  to  convey  the  impression 
that  it  belongs  to  a  work  different  from  the  above,  but 
simply  because  it  is  one  of  the  forms  in  which  the  Lu- 
culentissima  is  sometimes  found.  This  is  only  the  above 
No.  80,  but  without  the  first  title  and  without  the  eleven 
unnumbered  preliminary  leaves. 


82.  REISCH  (GEORGES)—  "  Margaritha  Philofophica 
nova  cui  annexa  funt  fequentia  Grecarum  literarum  in- 
ftitutiones  Hebraicarum  literarum  rudimenta  Architec 
ture  rudimenta  Quadrantum  varie  compofitiones  .  Af- 
trolabii  novi  geographici  compofitio  .  Formatio  Tor- 
queti  .  Formatio  Polimetri.  Vfus  et  utilitas  eorundem 
omnium  .  Figura  quadrantis  poliginalis  Quadrantura 
circuli.  Cubatio  fphere.  Perfpectiue  phyfice  et  pofitive 
rudimenta  .  Cartha  univerfalis  terre  marifque  formam 
neoterica  defcriptione  indicans.  In  fine:  Accipe  candide 


144  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

lector  Margaritam  Philofophicam  jam  denuo  regnoni- 
tarn.  Cum  qui  te  bene  valere  induftrius  vir  Joannes 
Griiningerus  operis  excufor  et  optat  et  precatur.  Ex 
Argentoraco  Veteri  Nono  Kalendas  Februarias.  Anno  re- 
demptionis  nqftre  decimo  quintojupra  mille  quingentos  .  Sequi- 
tur  Appendix.  Graecarum  literarum  inftitutiones,  &c.  ut 
Jupra  .  4. 

"  Gefner,  p.  61  .  Thott  .  vn  .  p  .  159  .  Collectio  noftra" 

(PANZER1.) 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  the  present  is 
the  well-known  encyclopedia,  first  published  as  early  as 
1496%  by  the  Carthusian  Prior  Georges  Reisch,  who 
lived  at  Freiburg  and  was  the  Emperor  Maximilian's 
confessor3.  The  popularity  which  that  work  enjoyed  in 
the  early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century,  renders  it  neces 
sary  to  ascertain  what  geographical  notions  in  regard  to 
the  new  world  the  Margaritha  was  calculated  to  convey. 
There  are  editions  of  Strasburg,  by  Schott4,  and  by  Grii- 
niger5,  4to,  1504;  Basle,  1508,  1517,  1535,  &c.,  but 
we  are  unable  to  state  whether  all  of  these  contain  maps. 
We  found  none  in  the  Freiburg  edition  of  1503,  but 
there  seems  to  be  a  very  important  map,  in  the  edition 
which  heads  the  present  notice. 

"  Auf  der  Karte  bei  Reisch,  says  Kunstmann6,  ist  Amerika  als  Fest- 
land  von  75°  N.  B.  bis  55°  S.  B.  gezeichnet.  Die  Kiiste  vom  75° 
N.  B.  bis  zum  40°  N.  B.  fuhrt  den  auffallenden  Namen  Zoana  Me- 
la\"  &c.,  &c. 


1  Annalei   Typogr.  Vol.  VI,  p.  69,  No.  *  Die  Entdeckung  Amerikai.     Nach  den 

353.  ahesten    Quellen     geschichtlich    dargestclt  ; 

a  HAIN,  Refertorium,  No.  13852.  Munich,  410,  1859,  p.  131 

8  WELLER,  Alta  aus  alien    Theilen  der  7  Anglh'e  :     On    the    map    in    Reisch, 

Gesch.,  Chemnitz,  8vo,   1760-66,  Vol.  I.  America  is  drawn  as  a  continent  from   75° 

4  Libri  catal.,  for  1861,  No.  6171.  N.  L.  to  55°  S.  L.     The  coast  from  75° 

s  Leipzig.  Lift.  Zcitung  for  Febr.  1804,  N.  L.  to  40°  N.  L.  bears  the  remarkable 

page  122.  name  Zoana  Mela. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  145 

83*     MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf  :  I  CJ  I 


lt<m  it  tt?att  ma- 
t  mHtti0atiatt0: 


ctes  par  SBmertc  tre  befpuce  jplorentin,  lies 
r  ifles  nouuellemet  trouuej  ,  au  pau&t  II  a  no?  in= 
cogneuj  &ant  en  letf)iope  q  atratie  II  (ttalic^ut  et 
aultres  pluHeurg  regions  eftrall'ges  STraflate  tre 
Jtaiien  en  Hague  fracotfe  II  par  matijurtn  trti  re^ 
trouer  llcencie  es 


Then  vignette  filling  the  rest  of  the  page,  and  representing  the 
signs  of  the  zodiac;  under  which,  we  notice,  printed  in  red:  XIX. 

Verso  of  the  fourth  leaf: 

<£n  les  bent  a  paris  en  la  rue  neufue  no  II  ftre 
trame  a  lenfeigne  tre  lefeu  tre  ^France,  II 

*£*  Sm.  410,  sine  annot  title  one  leaf-f-  three  unnumbered  leaves 
-j-  LXXXVIII  numbered  leaves,  the  last  of  which  is  marked  by 
mistake  LXXXX. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  work  is  a  literal  translation,  in  primitive 
French,  of  No.  48.  The  headings,  however,  differ. 
See  the  following  : 

(E  <&s  commence  ie  quart  liure  tre  la  nauigatio 
faiete  en  la  mer  tre  ponent  par  <£i)riftofle  colomfc 
geneuois. 

Brunet  is  of  opinion  that  the  present  may  be  the 
earliest  of  the  editions  of  Du  Redouer's  translation,  and 
that  it  was  printed  "  chez  Jehan  Trepperel  ou  sa  veuve." 
But  which  of  the  two  Trepperels  ?  One  Jehan  Trep- 


146  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I5I5*    Perel  died  in  1502  (Lotting  or  after  1506*,  or  in  1508'. 

5=5—  =—  =  Another  Jehan  Trepperel  printed,  also,  "  a  lenseigne  de 
lescu  de  franc  e"  as  late  as  I5JI4.  As  to  the  widow  Trep 
perel,  she  continued  her  husband's  business,  first  in 
single  blessedness,  and  afterwards  in  partnership  with 
Jehan  Janot.  Her  name,  according  to  Brunet5,  does 
not  appear  after  1520. 

At  all  events  we  ascribe  to  the  present  the  date  of 
1515,  simply  because  Brunet  is  inclined  to  consider 
it  the  earliest  of  the  editions,  and  that  Galliot  du  Pre's 
(infra]  contains  a  privilege  dated  January  1516.  Leng- 
let  du  Fresnoy6,  however,  ascribes  to  the  edition  before 
us  the  date  of  1519. 

Direct  rtferencfs  :  f  CAMUS,  M'emoirt  sur  de  Bry,  page  346. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiarta,  —  . 

BRUNET,  Vol.  V,  col.  1159,  quotes  also  the  De  Bure  sale  or  cata 
logue. 


84.     IDEM  OPUS—  Recto  of  the  Jirst  leaf 

S<£nftu)t 
monfrc 


par  IBmeric  t»e  btfpuce 
r  tfles  nouueliement  trouuef  au  ^auat  a  II  no?  icon- 
gneuf  5Tat  en  letfjiope  q  aratie  call-  II  djut|t  aultres 
plufteuts  tegiois  eftrages.  xix  || 


Then  woodcut  representing  a  circle  in  a  square,  with  the  signs  of 
the  zodiac. 


1  Catalogue  Chronol.  des  libraires-impri-  8  Marques  Typographiqucs,  p.  38,  No.  74. 
mcurs  de  Paris  ;   Paris,  4to,  1789.  4  See  La  -vtngance  nostre  seigneur,  printed 

2  See   the   various   editions   of  Tardif's  "  Ian  mil  cinq  ccns  trente  ung." 
Lart  de  faulconnerle  ;  and  Le  mistere  de  la  5  Manuel,  Vol.  in,  col.  1970. 
passion,  which  was  performed  "  Ian  mil  c'\q  "  M'ethode  pour  etudicr  rHistoirc,  Vol. 
ctns  et  sept."  IV,  page  407. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  147 

<E  <®n  les  bentr  a  ^arte  a  lenfeigne  Spinet  teim  1515.* 
tap  II  r  ifle  en  ia  Hue  neufue  $,oftre  trame  pres 
3?atnete  gene-  II  uiefue  ties  arirans.   Jefjan  iannut.H 

*£*  4to,  title,  printed  in  black  and  red,  one  leaf -{-  three  prelimi 
nary  leaves  +  LXXXVII  numbered  leaves,  thirty-nine  lines  to  a 
full  page.  Sine  anno,  but  from  its  great  resemblance  to  the 
above,  and  the  fact  that  Jehan  Janot  became  the  partner  of 
Trepperel's  widow,  we  give  it  a  place  close  to  the  latter's 
edition. 

(British  Museum  and  Private  Libr.,  New  York,  the  latter  an 
imperfect  copy.) 

"  Cette  edition  ne  porte,  ni  privilege,  ni  date,  en  sorte  qu'il  est 
difficile  de  savoir  si  elle  a  precede  on  suivi  celle  de  Galliot  du  Pre ; 
cependant  Jean  Janot  ne  vivait  plus  en  1522." 

(BRUNET1.) 


references  :  (     Bibliotheca  Grmvillia 
\      Li-vres  Curicux,  No. 
(  '  Manuel,  Vol.  v.  col. 


Direct  references  :  j"     Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  — . 

119. 
1 1 60. 


«  MAFFEI  of  roLTERRA—  "  Commentariorum  urban- 
orum  Libri  xxxvm.    Parif.  1510.  f." 

(MEUSEL9.) 

8  6.    IDEM  OPUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaft  \  tf  j  6.-f- 

LIS  nouueau  motre  et  nauigaetons  fainter  p 
IBmerie  tre  Uefpuce  ftoretin|  Besi  ||  pas^  et  ifles 
nouuellemet  trouuetlaullparauat  a  nous 
neu{|Cat  en  lelltfjtope  q  araMe  (Kaliefjut  r 


8  Bibliotk.  Histor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  p.  281.  JOACH.  VADIANI  Epistola  responsoria,  4to 

*  We  find  under  this  date,  in  Maittaire  \_Basilea~\  ;    but  we    are    unable    to    state 

(AnnaIcs,~Vo\.ll,  Part   I,  p.   267):  Ru-  whether  the  Epistle  of  Vadianus  mentioned 

DOLPHI   AGRICOLA  junioris   [who,   by   the  in  that  work  is  the  same  which  entitles 

way,  should  not  be  mistaken  for  the  great  the  various  editions   of  Pomponius    Mela 

and   genuine  Rudolph  Agricola   or  Rolef  by    Vadianus    (infra)  to    a    place    in   this 

Huysman,  who  died  in    1485,  and  whose  compilation. 

name,  in  this  instance,  was  assumed  by  a  f   As    a    reference    made    by    Hakluyt 

Franciscan  monk  called   John  de   Came-  (Vol.  in,  p.  6)  might  lead  the  reader  to 

rino],  ad  JOACHIMUM  VADIANUM  Epistola  consider  Robert  Fabian's  Annals  or  Chron- 

de  locorum   nonnullorum  obscuritate  cum  icles  as  a  work  belonging  to  the  Bibliotheca 


148  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

1516.  plu  ||  fteurs  regions  eftranges  |  ftranflate  tre  italten 
=—  en  fUgue  II  francosfe  par  Iftatfwrin  tru  refcouer 
iicencie  eg  lots.  II 

Then  spirited  woodcut1  representing  a  vessel,  with  the  motto  : 
VOGVE  LA  GVALLEE  and  the  words :  GALLIOT  .  DV  .  PRE,  followed  by 

<&um  priuilegto  regtell 

C  Smprime  a  $aris  pour  (Balliot  tru  pre  mar= 
cfjant  li- II  traire  tremourant  fus  le  pont  noftre  trame  | 
a  lenfeigne  tre  II  la  gallee  |  agant  fa  13outtque  en  la 
grantr  falle  fcu  ^allagg  II  au  fecontr  ^illier.  II 

*^*  8vo,  sine  anno  (but  the  privilege  is  dated  Jan.  loth,  1516); 
title  one  leaf -f-  five  preliminary  leaves  +  cxxxu  numbered 
leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

"  La  Croix  du  Maine  a  indique"  cet  ouvrage  comme  imprime  a 
Paris  par  Galiot  du  Pre  en  1516." 

(CAMUS'.) 

Galliot  Du  Pre,  printed  at  Paris,  according  to  the 
Marques  Typographiques  from  1512  to  1559,  yet  we  know 
of  a  Palmerin  (f  Olive  with  his  imprint,  dated  1572.  We 
find  the  same  woodcut  both  in  the  present  Du  Redouer 
and  in  the  edition  of  Alain  Bouchard's  Croniques,  pub 
lished  in  1531,  when  Du  Pre  was  in  partnership  with 
Jehan  Petit. 

Direct  references:  f  TERNAUX,  Bibliothequc  Am'erlcaine^  No.   17. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  IX,  No.  3128. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  23. 

La  Valliere,  Aime  Martin,  Eyries  and  Essling  Catalogues. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1159. 


Americana,  we  must  state   that  Pynson's  coverie  of  part  of  the  Indies,"  seems   to 
edition    (1516,   five  years    after   Fabian's  have  been  taken  from  a  continuation  by 
death),  which  is  the  first,  reaches  only  to  Fabian  himself,   mentioned   by  Stow,  but 
the  year  1495.    That  date  is  early  enough,  never  published.  (See  chap,  v,  and  appendix 
we  grant,  to  admit  of  at  least  a  reference  A,  in  Biddle's  Memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot.) 
to  the  New  World ;   but  we  failed  to  find,          '  Republished  in  the  Marques  Typogra- 
either  in  that  edition  or  in  Rastall's  (1533)  phiqucs,  Paris,  8vo,  1853,  p.  24,  No.  47. 
which   contains   a   continuation,   a   single          a  Bibliotheques  franfoitet,  Paris,   1772- 
line   germane  to  the  subject.     Hakluyt's  73,  Vol.  II,  p.  119. 
reference  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  "  first  dis-          3  Memoires  sur  de  Bry,  p.  346,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  149 

87*     VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  ICl6. 

fli  &mmgo  vefyncci      - 


troiuitf  in  quattvo 


Then  the  woodcut  which  adorns  the  title-page  of  the  second  edi 
tion  of  the  Dati  poem  (supra,  page  30)  en  contre  epreuve. 

*#*  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  sixteen  unnumbered  leaves,  forty  lines 
in  a  full  page;  text  in  Roman  characters;  signatures  a.  ii, 
a.  iii  -|-  three  blanks  ;  b.  i,  b.  ii,  b.  iii  -{-  three  blanks;  c.  i, 
c,  ii  -|-  two  blanks.  The  last  three  lines  on  the  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  read: 

Data  in  Lifbona  a  di  4.  di  ||  Septembre 
1  504.  ||  Seruitore  Amerigo  Vefpucci  in  Lif 
bona.  || 

On  the  verso  of  the  eighth  leaf  there  is  a  colophon  : 

C  Finifce  elprimo  Viaggio.  ||  C  Comincio 
el  fecondo.  || 

On  the  top  of  the  recto  of  the  ninth  leaf,  a  rude  woodcut  repre 
senting  two  vessels  with  their  crews.  On  the  recto  of  the  twelfth 
leaf,  a  second  colophon  : 

C  Finito  elfecondo  Viaggio.  ||  C  Comencia 
el  terzo.  || 

On  the  verso  of  the  same  twelfth  leaf,  a  woodcut  representing  a 
vessel  at  sea.  On  the  recto  of  the  fifteenth  leaf,  a  third  colophon  : 

([  Quarto  Viaggio  || 

Beneath  which,  a  woodcut  representing  a  vessel  entering  a  harbor. 
There  is  a  fifth  woodcut,  which  is  only  a  repetition  of  that  which 
adorns  the  title,  we  think. 

(British  Museum.) 


150  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

From  the  fact  that  the  present  was  printed  with  the 
same  type  as  the  Corsali  letter  of  Stephano  di  Carlo  da 

J  1  1 

Pavia,  Florence,  1516,  and  is  of  the  same  size  (but 
with  some  difference  in  the  texture  of  the  paper),  and 
that  a  copy  of  this  Corsali  letter  was  once  found  bound 
in  its  original  binding  with  this  Vespuccius,  we  ascribe  to 
the  latter  the  date  of  1516.  It  is  this  work  which  we 
quote  (supra,  page  62)  under  the  title  of  Grenville  codex. 

"  Ouvrage  excessivement  rare,  qui,  m'a-t-on  assure,  ne  se  trouve 
point  a  la  bibliotheque  imperiale  de  France  [1810]  Les  bibliographes 
n'en  font  point  mention  ;  il  n'a  ete  tire,  dit-on,  qu'a  DIX  exemplaires 
pour  les  dix  souverains  de  1'Europe  [?]  J'en  ai  vu  un  chez  M.  1'abbe 
de  Billy,  amateur  tres-eclaire,  qui  possede  un  cabinet  infiniment 
curieux  a  Besancon  ;  cet  exemplaire,  bien  conserve,  est  superieure- 
ment  relie  en  maroquin  rouge  [like  the  Grenville  copy],  par  Bozerian  ; 
son  possesseur  le  croit  UNIQUE.  La  derniere  lettre  de  Vespuce  est 
datee  du  4  Septembre  1504.  La  suivante  qui  termine  ce  livret,  est 
d'Andre  Corsali,1  adressee  a  Jules  de  Medicis.  Ce  Corsali,  lieu 
tenant  d'Amerique  Vespuce  [  ?  ]  prit  le  commandement  de  la  flotte 
apres  le  deces  de  celui-ci,  a  Pile  Tercere  [  ?],  en  1514  [  ?  ].  Cette 
lettre  est  datee  de  1515,  et  elle  a  ete  imprimee,  ainsi  qu'il  est  dit  a  la 
fin,  le  II  decembre  de  1516,  a  Florence,  par  lo.  Stephano  di  Carlo 
da  Pavia.  L'ouvrage  tout  entier  parait  avoir  ete  imprime  en  meme 
terns." 


Direct  references:  (  9  Repertoire,  page  139. 

Bibliotheca  Gren-vi/liana,  page  764. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  VI,  No.  3848. 

NAPIONE,  Appendix  to  the  Ragionamento,  pp.  107-115. 

EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  23542. 

TERNAUX,  Bibliotheque  Americaine,  No.  5. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1154. 


1  It  is   scarcely   necessary    to  add   that  the  British  Museum,  and  as  we  happen  to 

these   Corsali  letters  do  not  refer  in    any  have  a  faithful  transcript  of  one  of  them, 

manner    to    America  ;    they    belong    ex-  we    beg    leave   to  insert  in    this   place   a 

clusively    to    the     Bibliotheque    Asiatique.  literal  copy  of  the  title  : 
Andrew  Corsali  may  have  known  Vespuc-          I.ETTERA    DI    ANDREA    CORSA  ||  LI    ALLO 

cius,  as  he  was  also  a  Florentine  by  birth,  ILL.  PRJNCIPE  ||  ET  SIGNORE  LAV-  ||  RENTIO 

and  in  the  employ  of  King  Emanuel  of  DE    ME  ||  DICI    DVCA  |j  DVRBI-  ||    NO.  ||  EX 

Portugal,  but  he  never   visited   the   New  INDIA. 
World,  nor  did  he  ever  hold  the  position         /„  fne : 

of    "  Lieutenant    d'Amerique    Vespuce."          Ex  India  quintodecimo  kl.   octob.  M.D. 

Corsali's   letters    are  addressed    to   Julian  xvn.  ||  F.  D.  111.  Ser.  An.  Corsalius. 
and  Laurent  de  Medicis,  but  describe  only          *#*  410  for  size,  signatures  a,  b,  c,  each 

the  East  Indies,  China,  Cochin-China,  &c.  in   eights,  d,  in  four ;    which,    with    the 

The  only  copies  known,  we  believe,  are  in  title,  make  twenty- nine  leaves;  although 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  151 

88.     MARTYR  (PETER)—  Within  a  border:  I  C  I  6. 

loannes  ruffus  foroliuienfis  Archiepus  ===== 
C6fenti||n9:  legata9  apo.  ad  lediore  de  orbe 
nouo.  ||  Accipe  non  noti  praeclara  uolumina 
mimdi  ||  Oceani  :  &  magnas  nofcito  lector 
opes.  ||  Plurima  debetur  typhis  tibi  gratia  : 
gentes  ||  Ignotas  :  &  aues  qui  uehis  orbe 
nouo.  ||  Magna  quocp  autori  referenda  eft 
gratia  noftro  :  Qui  facit  haec  cunctis  regna 
uidenda  locis.  ||  Autor.  ||  Sifte  pedem  lector  : 
breuibus  compa&a  libellis||  Haec  lege:  prin- 
cipibus  uariis  de  cimoqj  leoni  ||  Pontifici 
fummo  infcripta.  hie  noua  multa  .uidebis.  || 
Oceani  magnas  terras  :  uafta  aequora  :  lin- 
guas  ||  Hacl;enus  ignoftas:  atqj  aurea  faecula 
nofces  :  ||  Et  gentes  nudas  expertes  feminis 
atri  :  Mortiferi  nummi  :  gemmifcg  aurocp 
feracem  ||  Torrentem  zonam  :  parcat  uene- 
randa  uetuftas. 


Colophon  : 

Cura  &  diligentia  uiri  Celebris   Magiftri 
Antonii    Ne-  ||  briffenris  hiftoriciregii   fue- 

we  have  seen  it    stated  that  there  should  out    catchwords.       It    is    the    other    let- 

be  thirty  :   "  an    invaluable     blank    leaf"  ter   of  Corsali,    addressed    to    Juliano    de 

(which,    however,  we    cannot,    at   such  a  Medici,    which    bears    Stephano    di    Car- 

distance,  connect  with  the  last  signature)  lo's  colophon,   and   that  was   bound   with 

being,  we  suppose,  that  great  desideratum,  the  above  Italian  Vespuccius  in  the  He- 

The  text   is   in  Roman  characters,   with-  ber  collection. 


152  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1516.  runt  hae  tres  protono  ||  tarii  Petri  martyris 
decades  Impreffie  in  ||  contubernio  Arnaldi 
Guillelmi  in  ||  Illuftri  oppido  carpetanae 
pui  ||  ciae  copluto  quod  uulgari  ||  ter  dicitur 
Alcala  pfe  ||  &u  eft  nonis  No  ||  uebris  An.  || 
1516.* 

*:!e*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -j-  sixty-two  unnumbered  leaves  +  one 
unnumbered  leaf-f-  one  blank  -f-  three  leaves  for  the  Vocabula 
barbara  -\-  sixteen  leaves  for  the  Legationis  Babilonicte.  Text 
in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  edition  of  the  first  decade  of  Peter  Martyr, 
printed  at  Seville  in  1511  (supra,  No.  66),  had  been 
published,  as  it  seems,  contrary  to  his  wishes1,  and  con 
tained  only  the  first  nine  books  of  the  first  decade  (the 
portion  which,  on  the  recto  of  the  forty-first  leaf,  bears 
the  title  of  Occean.  decadis  libri  Decimus,  is  only  a  short 
dissertation  De  superstitionibus  insularium  solutum  per  se 
libellum).  In  1508,  he  wrote  for  Mendoza  de  Tendilla, 
a  genuine  Lib.  x,  which  completes  the  first  decade 
in  the  edition  before  us,  while  the  xth  of  the  edition 
of  1511  is  added  to  the  ixth.  We  know  that  Pope 
Leo  X  was  so  charmed  with  Peter  Martyr's  Decade 

*  Angllcl :  John  Rufus  of  Forli,  Arch-  golden  ages  and  of  nations  free  from  the 
bishop  of  Cosenza,  apostolic  legate  to  the  corrupting  influence  of  money  ;  of  the  tor- 
reader,  touching  the  new  world.  rid  zone,  fertile  in  precious  stones  and 

Accept  these  exquisite  volumes  concern-  gold,  respect  the  venerable  antiquity, 
ing  the  new  world,  and  learn,  O  reader  !          Decades  of  the  new  world, 
of  the  great  treasures  of  the  Ocean.     The         By  the  care  and  industry  of  the  cele-, 
greatest    gratitude    is    due    to    the    pilot  brated   master  Anthony   of  Nebris,  these 
[Tt0t>?  ?];  Thee  who  carriest  unknown  na-  three   decades   of  the   historian   and  pro- 
lions  and  birds  to  the  new  world.     Great  thonotary,  Peter  Martyr,  were  printed  in 
thanks  are  also  due  to  our  author,  who  shows  the  office  of  Arnold  William  in  the  cele- 
all  those  kingdoms  in  their  places.     The  brated  city,  which  is  commonly  called  Al- 
Author.     Reader,  stop,  read  what  is  con-  cala.     Finished,  November  9th,  1516. 
tained    in    this  short    work,  inscribed    to         l  "  Duas  decades  addidi  primae  quae  me 
different  princes,  and  to  Pope  Leo  X.    Here  inconsulto  praelis   fuit  impreilbrum    expo- 
you  will  see  many  new  things  of  the  Ocean,  sita."     Epistle  to  Charles  V,  dated  Sep- 
great  countries,  vast  seas;  you  will  learn  tember  3Oth,  1516,  in  the  present  collec- 
of  hitherto   unknown  languages,   and    of  tion  of  the  three  Decades. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  1 53 

that  he  read  it  to  his  sister  and  to  the  cardinals  "after 
supper,  serena  fronte,  and  to  satiety,  until  late  in  the 
night2,"  and  are  not  surprised,  therefore,  to  learn  that 
this  enlightened  Pope  instructed  Bottrigari,  his  Em- 
bassador  to  the  Court  of  Spain,  to  request  the  inter 
esting  annalist  to  continue  his  Oceania.  It  is  in  con 
sequence  of  this  request  that  the  second  decade  was 
written,  December  I4th,  1514,  and  the  third,  partly  in 
March,  1515,  remitting  the  manuscript  to  the  printer 
only  on  the  I4th  of  October,  1516,  owing  to  his  wish 
to  insert  the  news  which  had  just  been  brought  to  him 
by  one  Roderick  Colmenares.  The  present  No.  88  is 
this  edition  :  the  earliest  that  contains  the  first  three 
decades. 

"  Brunet  mentions  an  edition  of  Madrid,  1516  ['  Matriti,'  4th  ed., 
Vol.  v,  No.  28479],  as  being  noticed  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  College 
of  Clermont,  which  is  probably  the  same  book  as  this,  the  dedica 
tion  to  Charles  V.  being  dated  from  Madrid,  pridie  kl.  Deto.  1516." 

(Blbliothtta  Grenvilliana.) 

It  would  prove  interesting  to  compare  these  three 
decades  with  the  letters  of  Peter  Martyr,  which  treat  of 
the  New  World,  and  dated  to  the  year  1516,  for  the 
purpose  of  ascertaining  whether  there  are  any  variations 
in  the  statements  of  facts.  Peter  Martyr  has  been 
charged  with  antedating  his  letters  for  the  purpose  of 
acquiring  the  reputation  of  a  sagacious  seer  ;  but  as 
— according  to  Juan  Vergara3 — our  author  wrote  with 
such  rapidity  that  he  had  frequently  been  seen  to  pen 
two  epistles  while  the  table  was  being  set,  he  may  have 
given  different  versions  of  the  same  occurrences. 

Direct  references:  I  TERNAUX,  Bibliotheque  Am'erhaine,  No.  1 8. 

-{    EBERT,   Dictionary,  No.    13321,  for  a  repetition  of  the  imaginary 
|        title,  "  Matriti,  1516." 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  293. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  129. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  26. 
Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  i,  No.  5558. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  24. 


9  Of  us  Epistolarum  (edit,  of  1670),  Let-          3   apud    ANTONIO,    Bibliotheca    Hispan. 
ter  No.  562,  page  310.  Nova,  Vol.  II,  page  372. 

20 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

88.     GIUSTINIANI  (AUG.)— Within  a  highly  ornamented  border 


Pfalterium,  Hebr^um,  Gr^cu, 
Arabicu,  &  Chald^u,  cu  tribus 
latinis  iterptatoibus  &  gloffis. 


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6  IKOV    ical   %aX6aiKov  per  a  rpivv  ip 
kartv  IKUV  nal 


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Impreffit  miro  ingenio,  Petrus  Paulus 
Porrus,  genuae  in  aedibus  Nicolai  lufti 
niani  Pauli,  praslidente  reipub.  genuenfi 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  155 

pro  Sereniffimo  Franco^  Rege,  preftan  ||  ti 
viro  Odauiano  Fulgofo,  anno  chriftia  ||  ne 
falutis,  milleiimo  quingentefimo  fex  ||  tode- 
cimo  menfe.  VHIIbri. 

Colophon,  under  a  letter  P  on  each  side  of  an  onion: 

Petrus   Paulus  Porrus  Medio  ||  lanenfis, 
Taurini  degens.* 

*£*  Folio  for  size,  but  the  signatures  read :  one  blank,  then  A  ii, 
A  iii,  A  iiii,  A  ij,  then  five  blanks,  B,  B  ii,  B  iii,  B  iiii,  then 
four  blanks,  and  so  on  through  the  register,  which  does  not 
contain  a  single  folio  signature.  Title  one  leaf-j-  four  leaves 
containing  an  epistle  from  Jacobus  Antiquarius  addressed  to 
Giustiniani,  dated  Milan,  vm  kalen.  aprilis  1516  ;  a  preface  by 
Giustiniani  addressed  to  Pope  Leo  X,  dated  Genoa,  Cat,  Aug. 
1506;  which  preface  is  repeated  in  Hebrew,  Chaldean,  Greek, 
and  Arabic.  Then  the  text  in  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn,  Providence,  Owl's  Head, 
and  in  many  other  American  libraries.) 

Agostino,  or  Pantaleone1  Giustiniani,  was  born  in 
Genoa  in  1470.*  When  only  fourteen  years  of  age  he  was 
kidnapped,  notwithstanding  his  aristocratic  parentage, 
and  sent  to  Valencia,  in  Spain,  from  which  place  he  re 
turned  to  Italy  in  1488,  to  join  the  order  of  the  Domini 
cans.  He  soon  acquired  an  extensive  reputation  for  his 
great  learning,  especially  in  the  Oriental  languages,  which 
he  taught  until  he  was  made  Bishop  of  Nebbio,  in  Cor 
sica,  November  1 5th,  151 4'.  At  the  request  of  Francis  I, 

*  Anglice  :    The    Hebrew    Psalter,  to-  year  of  the  Christian  Salvation   1516,  Oc- 

gether    with    three    Latin    interpretations  tober  9th.     Peter  Paul   Porrus  of  Milan, 

and  glosses.  residing  at  Turin. 

Printed  with  wonderful  skill  by  Peter-  *  ZENO  in  FONTANINI,  Bibliotheca  Ital- 

Paul-Porrus   of   Genoa,   in  the    house  of  iana,  Vol.  ii,  p.  232. 

Nicholas  Justinian   Paulus,  under  the  ex-  a  UGHELLI,  Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  IT,  p.  411. 

cellent  Octavius  Fulgoso,  President  of  the  *  QUETIF  &  ECHARD,  Serif  tores  ordinis 

Republic  of  Genoa   in   the  name  of  the  Pradicatorum    recensit ;     Paris,    1719-11, 

most  illustrious  King  of  France.     In  the  Vol.  ii,  p.  96. 


156  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  Cl6,  who  had  lately  founded  the  literary  institution  since  so 
.  famous  under  the  name  of  College  de  France,  Giustiniani 
removed  to  Paris  to  fill  the  chair  of  Hebrew4,  which  he 
occupied  four  or  five  years,  visiting,  occasionally,  Hol 
land,  where  he  acquired  the  personal  friendship  of  Eras 
mus,  and  England,  where  Henry  VIII  and  Thomas 
More  bestowed  upon  him  flattering  marks  of  attention. 
He  died  before  1530'  or  in  1536^  at  sea,  but  whether 
by  the  hands  of  pirates7  or  by  shipwreck  is  not  known. 
Giustiniani  is  the  author  of  a  number  of  valuable  works8, 
which  should  not  be  ascribed  to  the  Genoese  prelate  of 
the  same  name  mentioned  by  Soprani9. 

Benevolent,  patriotic,  and  disinterested,  Augustine 
Giustiniani  yet  suffered  persecutions  at  all  hands10.  De 
voting  all  his  energies,  means,  and  talents  to  the  prose 
cution  of  a  work  which  was  destined  to  redound  to  the 
credit  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  his  efforts 
were  neither  appreciated  nor  rewarded.  The  circum 
stances  connected  with  the  publication  of  Giustiniani's 
Polyglot  Psalter  are  fraught  with  wholesome  teachings. 
Prompted  by  a  desire  to  promote  learning  and  conscien 
tious  investigations,  Giustiniani,  after  elucidating  the 
texts  of  Job,  Plato,  Xenophon,  and  Maimonides,  con 
centrated  all  his  powers  on  a  laborious,  difficult,  but 
necessary  edition  of  King  David's  Psalter,  in  the  He 
brew,  Chaldean,  Greek,  Arabic  and  Latin  languages. 
It  was  the  initiatory  step  towards  the  first  publication 


4  Giustiniani  is  still  gratefully  remem-  by  BAYLE,  Dictionnairc,  Vol.  n,  page  906, 

bered   by   the   Paris   students   as  the  frst  note. 

professor  appointed  to  the  professorship  of         7  Govio,  de  gli  Hvomi  Famosi,  p.   244. 

Hebrew  in  their  favorite  college.      But  our  (We    must    apologise   for   quoting   so  fre- 

impression  is   that  Paolo  Paradisic,  other-  quently   Paul   Jovius'    Eulogies    in    Orio's 

wise  called  Le  Canosse,  received  the  first  version — Venice,    izmo,    1558, — but   we 

appointment.     (See  GOUJET,  Mem.  stir  k  have  not  yet  succeeded  in  securing  for  con- 

College  de  France,  Vol.   I.)      The  Dizio-  stant  use  a  copy  of  the  original.) 
nario   S.    degli    aut.   ecc/es.,    Venice,    8vo,          8  TIRABOSCHI,  Storia  dclla  Lett.  Italiana, 

1769,  Vol.   n,   p.    323,   states,  however,  Vol.  rn,  pp.  344  and  403. 
that  Giustiniani  was  the  first  incumbent.  *  Scrittori  delta    Liguria ;    Genoa,  410, 

6  Vossius,  de  Historicis  LatinittLib.  m,  1667,  p.  6. 
p.  gg  lt  10  The  Psalter  was  prohibited  and  con- 

6  MICHAEL    GIUSTINIANI,   gli    Scrittori  fiscated    by    the    civil    (  ? )    authorities    of 

Liguri   [Rome,  4to,  1667],  p.  18,  quoted  Genoa. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  157 

of  a  polyglot  edition  of  the  entire  Bible  printed  with 
the  types  belonging  to  each  version.  In  a  community 
abandoned  to  the  lust  of  lucre,  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to 
say  that  the  undertaking  was  viewed  with  supine  indif 
ference.  Giustiniani  persevered,  but  there  were  ob 
stacles  which  it  was  beyond  his  power  to  surmount ; 
and  although  all  knew  that  he  wished  nothing  for 
himself,  his  appeals  remained  unheeded".  He  caused 
two  thousand  copies  of  the  Psalter  to  be  printed  on 
paper,  and  fifty  on  vellum12.  Not  one  fourth  of  the 
edition  found  purchasers1'.  His  exertions,  his  sacrifices, 
his  solicitude  even,  so  far  from  commanding  respect, 
were  treated  with  taunts  and  sarcasm'4.  Centuries  have 
now  elapsed ;  and  although  the  egotism  and  bigotry 
exhibited  by  Giustiniani's  contemporaries  still  find  apol 
ogists  and  imitators,  his  polyglot  Psalter  remains — a 
great  monument  of  his  learning,  perseverance,  and 
devotion  ! 

It  is  this  Psalter  which  entitles  the  unfortunate  Bishop 
of  Nebbio  to  a  place  in  our  American  gallery.    Remem- 


11  Two    scholars,    Jacob     Furnius    and  umi  del   Dauidico  psalterio  in  le  predette 
Baptista   Cigala,  aided   him,   however,   to  cinque   lingue,    paredomi  di    questa    opera 
the  extent  of  their  abilities.     See  note  to  doner  acquistar  gran  laude  &  no  mediocre 
Psalm    LXXVIII.       We    feel    tempted    to  quadagno,  il  quale  pensauo  di  esporre  en 
think  that  the  well-known  verses  of  Vir-  la  suuentione  di  certi  miei  parent!  ch'erano 
gil :   "  Nan  ignara  mall  miseris  succurrere  bisognosi.   credendomi   sempre  che  1'opera 
disco,"   may  be  quoted  as  an  explanation  douessi  hauere  assai  grande  vscita,  &  che  i 
for  the  proffered  assistance.     Withal,  let  prelati  richi,  o  i  Principi  si  douessero  mo- 
it  be  said  that  Giustiniani  was  not  com-  uere  &  mi  douessero  aggiutare  i  la  spesa  di 
pelled   to  go  begging  from    door   to  door,  fare   imprimere   il   restante   della  biblia  in 
almost  always  in  vain,  for   permission  to  quella  varieta    di  lingue,   ma   la   credulita 
consult  books  which  remained  untouched  mia  resto  ingannata,  p   che  1'opera  fu  da 
and  uncut  in  the   hands  of  their  owners,  ciascaduno   laudata,    ma   lassata  riposare  & 
One  of  his  ancestors,  Andreolo  Giustiniani,  dormire,  p  che  a  pena  si  sono  venduti  la 
had  left  him  a  valuable  library,  which  he  quarta   parte  de  i  libri,  come   che  1'opera 
afterwards  bequeathed  to  the  city  of  Ge-  sia  p  valent'huomini,  &  p  ingegni  eleuati, 
noa.     It  has  since  disappeared.  che  sono  al   mondo  ran,   &    pochi,  &  co 

12  LELONG,   Discours    hhtorique    sur    Us  stento  puoti  ricauare   i    denari,   ch'   aueua 
Bibles  folyglottes  ;     Paris,    lamo,    1713,  posto  in  la  stapa,  che  furono  bona  quan- 
pp.  32  and  319.  tita,  p  che  oltra  i  dua   millia   volumi  sta- 

18  The  following  passage  is  really  touch-  pati  in  papero,  ne  feci  imprimere  cinquata 

ing  :  in  carte  vitelline,  &  mandai  di  essi  libri  a 

"  Feci  stampar  in  Genoa  alle  mie  spese  tutti  i  Re  del  mondo,  cosi  Christian!  come 

con  quel  trauaglio,  &  co  quella  spesa,  che  pagani."  See  Castigatissimi  Annali  de  la 

ogni  literate  puo  giudicare  doa  millia  vol-  Republics  di  Genoa  (infra),  page  ccxxiv. 


158  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

1 6.    Bering    that    Christopher     Columbus     frequently    pro- 
-  claimed  that  he  had  been  chosen  by  God  to  exemplify 
the  thought  or  prophecy  expressed  in  verse  4  of  Psalm 
xix  : 

Laudatoria  Dauidis. 
£)ui  Jufpiciunt  celos  enarrant 
gloriam  DEI,  &  opera  manuum  eius 
annunciant  qui  Jufpiciunt  inaera, 

he  inserted  in  the  margin,  close  to  the  verse,  a  lengthy 
biography  of  the  bold  navigator,  his  countryman  and 
contemporary. 

This  untimely  note,  which  may  have  been  the  cause 
of  the  persecutions  suffered  by  our  author,  is  frequently 
quoted.  Fernando  Columbus  devotes  an  entire  chapter 
to  a  refutation  of  what  he  mildly  terms15  the  "  twelve 
lies  uttered  by  Giustiniani." 

The  text  of  the  note  has  been  republished  by  Von 
Murr16,  and,  with  a  translation,  in  the  Notes  on  Colum 
bus.  There  is  an  English  version  in  the  Christian  Ex 
aminer*7,  and,  we  believe,  in  the  N.  T.  Historical  Mag 
azine. 

Direct  references  :  f  GESNER,  Bibliotheca  uni-versalis,  page  92. 

MAITTAIRE,  Annalts  Typogr.,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  pages  276-7. 

PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vu,  page  63. 

LELONG,  Bibliotheca  Sacra,  Part  I,  page  400. 

FABRJCIUS,  Bibliotheca  Lat.  Med.  et  Inf.,  Vol.  iv,  pages  610—14. 

AUDIFFREDJ,  Bibliotheca  Casanata,  Vol.   I,  page  625. 

VAN  PRAET,  Catalogue  des  li-vrcs  sur  i>elin,  Vol.  I,  page  8,  No.  4. 

Bibliotheca  Barloiuiana,  — . 

Bibliotheca  Breivortiana,  — . 

La  Valliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  I,  page  3,  No.  7  ;  McCarthy  Cata 
logue,  Vol.  I,  page  2,  No.  3;  Bibliotheca  Susscxiana,  Vol.  i, 
Part  II,  pages  107-112;  and  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  25, 
all  for  copies  printed  on  vellum. 


14  See  the  indecorous  remarks  of  Jovius,          I8  Histoirc    Diplomatique    du     chc-valicr 
as  noticed  by  BAYLE,  loc  cit.  Behaim,   pp  150-156. 

14  "  dodicie   bug-ic"   Historie  deW Ammi-          17  Boston,  for  September,  i8s8. 

o       '  -> 

raglio  (ed.  of  1571),  cap.  u,  fol.  3. 


Eibliotheca    Americana.  159 

8g.    SABELLICO  (MARK-ANT.}—11  Rapfodiae    hiftoria-    I^iy* 
rum  Enneadum  ab  orbe  cond.  P.  I  quinque  compl.  En-  = 

neadeSj  praem.  earundem  repertoriis  auctis  et  recogn. 
ab  Afcenfio  cum  auth.  epitomis.  In  aedd.  Afcens.  ad 
nonas  Novbr.  a.  1516.  in-fol. — Posterior  pars  ejd.  Raps, 
hift.  cont.  fex  enneades  relig.  c.  earundem  repertoriis  et 
epitomis.  Rapfodia  hiftor.  ab  o.  cond.  in  a.  ufque  fal. 
noftrae  M.  D.  IIII  optatum  iterum  recepit  finem  in 
aedd.  Afcens.  ad  Idus  Febr.  1517.  in-fol." 

(GRAKSSE1.) 

go.  MONTALBODDO  (PR.  DE)— c:  Paefi  nouamente  retrou- 
ati  per  ||  la  Nauigatione  di  Spagna  in  Calicut.  Et  da 
Alber  ||  tutio  [?]  Vefputio  Florentine  intitulato  Mon  || 
do  Nouo:  Nouamente  Impreffall  [Colophon~\  C  Stampata 
in  Venetia  per  Zorzi  de  Rufconi  milla-  ||  nefe :  Nel. 
M.ccccc.xyii.  a  di.  xyiii.  Agofto.  ||  124  unnumbered  leaves, 
with  woodcut  of  the  City  of  Venice  on  the  title ;  the  reverse 
of  the  last  leaf  blank ;  signatures  A  in  four^  b  to  q  in 
eights" 

(Historical  Nuggets*.) 

91.    Pomponius  Mela.  ||  Ivlivs  Solinvs.  ||    1518. 
Itinerarium    Antonini    Avg.   |  Vibivs.      P. 
Victor  de  regionibus  urbis  Romae.  ||  Diony- 
fus  Afer  de  Jftu  or  bis  Prefciano  Interprete. 

Colophon  : 

VENETIIS  IN  AEDIBUS  j|  ALDI,  ET  ANDREAE  ||  SOCERI 
MENSE  OCTOBRI  M.D.XVIII.  ||* 

1  Vol.  vi,  p.  202.  *  Anglice  :  Pomponius  Mela,  Julius  So- 

a  Page    752,   No.    2747.    and   BRUNET,      linus ;   Itinerary   of  Antoninus    Aug.  Vi- 

Vol.  v,  col.  1158.  bius.     P.    Victor    on    the  vicinity  of  the 


1 60  Bibliotheca    Americana. 


_  ^  T  o  *#*  8vo,  two    hundred  and  thirty-three  numbered  leaves  -f-  three 


unnumbered  ;  no  map. 

(British  Museum.) 

Ed.  prima  collect." 

(Kloss  Catalogue.) 


We  insert  the  above  solely  on  the  authority  of  Bisnop 
Kennett's  valuable  Bibliotheca  America  Primordia.  We 
failed  to  discover  in  this  edition  of  Pomponius  Mela 
and  its  suite  of  the  "  lesser  geographers"  anything  re 
lating  to  America.  Although  Bishop  Kennett  cites  the 
Aldine  edition,  we  are  of  opinion  that  he  had  in  view 
the  following,  which  is  of  the  same  date,  and  contains 
the  well-known  epistle  of  Vadianus  to  Agricola. 


Q2.     POMPONIUS  MELA  —  Within  a  highly  ornamented  border  : 

POMPONII  MELAE  Hif-||pani,  Libri 

de  fitu  orbis  tres,  ||  adie&is  lOachimi  VA- 
diani  ||  Heluetii  in  eofdem  Scho-  ||  His  : 
Addita  quocp  in  Ge-  ||  ographia  ||  Cate- 
chefi:  ||  &  Epiftola  Vadia-  ||  ni  ad  Agrico 
la  ||digna  le-||du.||  Cum  Indice  fummatim  || 
omnia  comple&ete.  || 

n* 
im- 


city  of  Rome;   Dionysius  Afer,  on  the  site     Venice,  in  the  house  of  Aldus  and  An- 
of  the   world;    translated    by    Priscianus.     dreas,  his  father-in-law,  Oct.,  1518. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  1 6 1 

Colophon  on  verso  of  the  last  leaf:  I  C  I  O» 

IMPRESSVS  EST  POMPONIVS  ||  VIENNAE 
PANNONIAE,  EXPENSIS  LVCAE  ALANTSE|| 
CIVIS  ETBIBLIOPOLAEVIENNENSIS,  PER|| 
IOANNEM  SINGRENIVM  EX  OE.  ||  TING 
BAIOARIAE  .  MENSEH  MAIO,  ANNI,  ||  M.D. 
XVIII.  ||* 

Then  large  printer's  mark,  and  LVCAE  ALANTSE. 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf-f-  twenty-two  unnumbered  leaves  +  one 
hundred  and  thirty-two  numbered  leaves  -j-  one  unnumbered, 
with  colophon  on  the  verso.  No  map. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

LIB.  PROHIB.   &  EXPURG1. 

See  on  verso  of  folio  124,  and  recto  of  128,  in  the 
epistle  of  Vadianus  to  Agricola,  the  passage  relating  to 
America : 

"...  nondimeno  sembla,  che  il  Vadiano,  celebre  pe'suoi  Comenti 
a  Pomponius  Mela,  sia  stato  il  primo  a  chiamare  il  Continente  Occiden- 
tale,  col  Nome  di  America  fin  dal  1512,  o  1514  American  a  Vespuc- 
fio  repertam."  (CANCELLIERI*.) 

"JoACH.  VADIANUS,  Suisse  de  S.  Gal.  mort  en  1551  [astatis  LXVI*] 
Monsieur  Vossius  le  fils  dit  [Preefat.  in  Mel.  Geogr.~\  que  les  Re- 
marques  que  cet  homme  a  faites  sur  Pomponius  Mela  sentent  la  chariie 
&  le  village.  Mais  quelques  uns  ont  trouve  cette  sentence  un  peu 
rigoureuse."  (BAILLET*.) 

Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  IX,  page  37. 

-j  DENIS,  Wicni  Buchdruckcrgeschichtc,  pages  186-8. 
(  GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  401. 


*  Anglice :  Three  books  of  Pomponius  not  be  printed  within  the  next  six  years. 

Mela   the   Spaniard,   on  the    site    of  the  Pomponius  is  printed  at  Vienna  in  Austria, 

earth,  together  with  the  scholia   [annota-  for  Lucas  Alantse,  by  John  Singrenius  of 

tions]  of  Joachim  Vadianus,  a  Swiss,  and  Oettingen  in  Bavaria,  May,  1518. 
also  the  guide  to  the  geography,  and  let-          *  Index  Librorum  Prohibitorum ;    Mad- 

ter   of  Vadianus  to    Agricola,    worthy    of  rid,  fol.,  1667;  I.  Class.,  p.  557. 
being  read,  with  an  index,  containing,  in  a         a  Ditiertazioni,  p.  46. 
concise  form,  everything.     It  is  provided          '  Vossius,  De  Natura  Artium,  p.  148. 
by  Imperial  privilege  that  this  work  can-         *  Jugements  des  Savants,  Vol.  n,  p.  46. 

21 


1 62  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  O.  •     DIONYSIUS  PERIEGETES— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


ifij  Uttf- 
fo  mii  ii  *  no  interpret*.  « 

Then  woodcut  of  a  cardinal's  arms  in  a  border. 
Colophon  : 

VIENNE  ||  <£ufptmanug  neuos   r  berrucas 
fuftulit  ||  SHtntetfwrgn:  tmprefftt  anno 
iij1  ?) 


*Jte*  410,  twenty-six  leaves,  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(British  Museum.) 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  there  is  an  address  contain 
ing  the  following  slight  allusions  to  the  Oceanic  dis 
coveries  : 

"  Tfi  pl'ima  feculo  nto  fut  &  inueta  || 
loca  prius  ignota  &  a  fcriptorib9  uetuftifli- 
mis  negle/  ||  d:a  :  q  prope  die  tuae  R.  P. 

•  .    .    -     »5 

mitta. 

As  to  the  work  itself  it  is  only  Rufus  Festus'  Latin 
paraphrase  of  the  well-known  hexametrical  description 
of  the  earth,  written  originally  in  Greek  by  Dionysius 
Periegetes,  Lybicus  or  Africanus,  toward  the  latter 
part  of  the  third  century. 

Direct  references  :  (  HOFFMANN,  Bibliogr.  Lexicon,  Vol.  11,  page  106. 
\  BRUNET,  Manuel,  Vol.  n,  col.  731. 


1  See  DENIS,  ffiens  Buchdruckcrgcschichtc,  p.  19,  No.  ao. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  1 63 

94.  MONTALBODDO  (PR.  DE)— Paeu  nouamente 
retrouati.  &  Nouo  Modo  da  Alberico  Vef- 
putio  Flo-  ||  retino  intitulato.  || 

Then  vignette  representing  the  king  receiving  Vespuccius. 
In  fine : 

C  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impenfa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  da  ||  Lignano  :  & 
diligente  cura  &  induftria  de  loanne  An- 
gelo  fcinzen  ||  zeler:  nel.  Mccccc.xix.  a  di. 
v.  de  Mazo.  || 

*„,*  Sm.  4to,  title  one   leaf  -j-  three   preliminary  leaves  -}-  eighty 
unnumbered  leaves  for  the  text,  which  is  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

This  edition  seems  to  be  the  best  known,  as  it  is 
almost  exclusively  quoted  by  the  early  authors,  who 
frequently  ascribe  the  work  to  J.  M.  Angiolelo1,  and 
even  to  Vespuccius2. 

"  Le  vol.  porte  dans  le  catalogue  de  Floncel  [Paris,  1774],  No. 
5427,  sous  le  titre  de  Prima  navigatione  .  .  .  Milano,  1519,  est  tout 
simplement  un  exemplaire  de  la  presente  edition,  ou  il  manquait  les 
quatre  ff.  prelim3." 

Direct  references:  f  LEON  PINELO,  Epitome,  page  132. 

\   HAYM,  Bibliotheca  Ita/iana,  Vol.  i,  page  179,  No.  9. 
I    CAMUS,  Memoire  sur  De  Bry,  pages  6  and  345. 
NAVARRETE,  Coleccion,  Vol.  m,  page  1 88. 
TERNAUX,  No.  21. 
8  BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1158. 
La  Valliere  Catalogue,  No.  4541 . 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2748. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  No.  28. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,    Part   VI,  No.    599,  in  describing  the  Dal- 
rymple  copy,  adds  a  curious,  although  very  common  memoran 
dum  : 

"  In  the  old  wrapper,  ------------       u.  (,d. 

1812,  Hering,  binding,  washing,  and  sizing,       a.  7.   o. 


£2.  8.   6." 


1  PINELO-BARCIA,  col.  907.         *  LEON  PINELO,  loc.  cit.,  p.  62. 


1 64  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

5  I9*  95*     STOBNICZA  (JOHN  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

in  fHoiilmun 
Ciifnuij)raj)l)iam  cum  u 

longitudinibus  &  latitudinibus  regionum 
&  ||  ciuitatum  celebriorium  ||  (E  Epitome 
Europe  Eneae  Siluij.  ||  (E  Situs  &  diftin&io 
partium  totius  Aafiae  per  brachia  Tauri 
mon/  ||  tio  ex  Afia  Pij  fecudi  ||  (E  Particu- 
lalior  minoris  Afiae  defcriptio  ex  eiufdem 
Pij  afia.  ||  (E  Sirie  compendiofa  defcriptio 
ex  Ifidoro.  ||  (E  Africe  breuis  defcriptio  ex 
Paulo  Orofio.  ||  (E  Terras  facli  &  urbis 
Hierufalem  apertior  :  fratris  Anf-  ||  helmi1 
ordinis  Minorum  de  obferuantia.  || 

(E  Magifter  Paulus  Crofnenfis.  Lecliori 
Studiofo.  ||  Qui  freta,  qui  frontes  populos 
ac  mcenia  colles  ||  Quiqg  cupias  uafti  nofure 
regna  foli  ||  Hue  praecor  hue  uultum  paulif- 
per  uerte  benignam  ||  Exiguumqg  legas  can- 
dide  leclor  opus  ||  Omnia  quo  magni  clau- 
duntur  climata  mundi  ||  Quodcp  ponet 
uariis  terra  rotunda  locis  ||  Quo  populos 
urbes  mirabere  flumina  montes  ||  Et  quae 
funt  oculis  non  bene  uifa  tuis  ||  Quo  Pto- 
lomei  fubito  (mihi  crede)  uidibis  ||  Et  re- 

1  See  infra,  p.  166,  note  i. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  165 

leges  fpariim  grandia  fcripta  libri  ||  Et  1519. 
quod  mille  alii  dodi  fcripfere  libellis||  Hoc 
paruo  inuenies  confpiciesq$  libro  ||  DIS- 
TICHON  ||  Afpice  quam  paruo  ledor 
ftudiofe  libellojl  Claufa  fit  immenfi  ma- 
china  magna  poli.  || 

Colophon  : 

Impreffum  Cracouiae  per  Hieronymum 
Vi£torem  ||  Calcographum.  Anno  falutis 
humanae.  Mille/ 1  fimo  quingentefimo  de- 
cimo  nono.  Deci/  ||  mo  feptimo  kalendas 
Maii.  || 

*+*  410,  two  preliminary  leaves,  including   the   title,  -f-  forty-four 
leaves.     No  map  or  maps. 

(British  Museum.) 

On  the  verso  of  the  title,  in  the  Dedication  inscribed  : 

C  Reuerendijfimo  in  Chrifti  patri  &  Domino  loanni  dei 
gracia  Epifcopo  Pojnanienfi  loannes  de  Stobnicza.  Salutem 
dicit, 

There  is  the  following  : 

Et  ne  foli  Ptolomeo  laboraflem,  curaui 
etiam  notas  face  requafdam  partes  terroe 
ipfi  Ptolomeo  alijfcp  uetuftioribus  ignotas 
q  Americi  Vefputij  alio^  eg  luftratione  ad 
noftra  noticia  puenere. 

Upon  the  verso  of  folio  5,  in  the  chapter  De  Meridi- 
anis,  Stobnicza  speaks  of  the  discovery  by  Vespuccius  of 
parts  of  the  earth  unknown  to  Ptolemy,  and  adds  : 

"  Similitu  in  occafu  ultra  Affricam  & 
Europa  magna  ps  terroe  quam  ab  Americo 


1  66  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

15*9*  ei9  rep  tore  america  vocat,  uulgo  aut  nouus 
mundus  dicit,"  &c. 

See  also  on  the  reverse  of  the  folio  7,  in  the  ninth 
chapter,  what  seems  to  be  a  repetition  of  the  famous 
passage  in  the  St.  Die  Cosmographia  : 

"  Non  folu  aut  pdicl:^  tres  ptes  nuc  funt 
latius  luftrate,  veru  &  alia  quarta  pars  ab 
Americo  Vefputio  fagacis  ingenii  viro, 
inuenta  eft,  qua  ab  ipo  Americo  eius  inu- 
entor  amerigem  quasi  americi  terrain  iiue 
america  appellari  volunt,  cui  latitude  eft 
fub  tota  torrida  roua,"  &c. 

Since  our  No.  69  was  in  print  we  have  discovered 
the  following  note  in  Meusel1  : 

"  ANSELMI,   ordinis  Minorum  de  Observantia,   apertior  descriptio 
terrae  sanctae  et  urbis  Hierusalem  (facta   1509)  ;  edita  una  cum  Pto- 
lemaei   Cosmographia,  a   loan  de   Stobnicza.      Cracoviae  f.  a  (circa 
4-" 


Direct  references:  C  Vossius,  De  Natura  Artium,  Lib.  in,  page  148. 

-|  PINELO-BARCIA,  Epitome,  col.  1227,  seems  to  refer  to  a  reprint  of 
(      Ptolemy  itself,  and  not  to  a  mere  introduction. 

0,6.  ALBERTINI  (FRANCIS  DE)—  "  Opufculum  de  mira- 
bilibus  novae  &  veteris  Urbis  Rom<e  :  induftria  &  im- 
penfa  THOM^  WOLFF  Chalcograpbi*  gnari  exara- 
tum  nuper.  4.to  ex  propria  OJficina  Urbis  Basilese.  1519." 

(MAITTAIRE*.) 
"  Ed.  III."      (Kloss  Catalogue8.) 


1  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  i,  Part   If,     Hum,  Lyons,   fols.    1632-76,  will  perhaps 
.  8 1,  referring  to  "  Canisii  Lectt.  antiqq.     find  some  additional  details  under  the  head 


Bibl.  [Dresden  8vo,  1747],  T.  n.  p.  124."  Ptolemy's  Cosmographia. 

The   reader  who   has   access   to  BONONJA,  a  Annales   Typogr.,  Vol.   II,   Part   i,  p. 

Biblioth.     Scriptor.    Ordinis    S.    Francisc.,  335,  and  PANZER,  Vol.  VI,  p.  216. 

Venice,  fol.,   1747  or  to  BOVERO,  Anna-  '  Page  7,  No.  71. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  1 67 

97*     ENCISO   (M.  F.  DE) — Under  a  large  sphere  held  by  a  band : 

Suma  Ire  geograpijta  5 II  trata  tie  totras  las  par= 
tiiras  r  prouin- 1|  eias  trel  muniro  :  en  efpecial  ire  las 
iniri-  II  as.  r  trata  largamete  trel  arte  trel  mare  II  ar : 
Juntamete  eon  la  efpfjera  en  romace :  eon  el  regU 
mieto  trel  S?ol  r  trel  norte :  nue  II  uamente  tecfta.  II 
(Eon  preuilegio  real.  II 

Verso  of  the  title-page : 

^reuilegioreal.  ||  ?£l  reg.  ||  ^or  quato  por  parte 
tre  bos  el  fmcjiller  fHartin  fernatrej  tre  ||  enctfo  al= 
guatil  ma^or  tre  caftilla  trel  oro  me  fue  feefja  rela^ 
cio  II  trefientro  q  nos  auegs  ^eeijo  bn  litro  tre  eofmo^ 

grapfjia  . dFee^a  en  la 

etutratr  tre  ^arago^a  a  chuo  trtas  trel  mes  tre  fetie  || 
bre  tre  mil  r  qntnietos  r  trettocfjo  anos.  go  el  reg. 
^or  mantratro  trel  II  reg.  OTaftailetra.  II 

Colophon  : 

jFue  impreffa  enla  nofcilittima  r  mug  leal  cmtratr 
tre  g>^illa  por  Ja-  II  cofco  croterger  alema  en  el  afto 
S  la  encarnacion  tre  nueftro  feftor.  II  tie  mil  r  pink 
entos  r  trie*  r  nueue.  II* 

*#*  Folio;  title  one  leaf  +  seventy-five  unnumbered  leaves  ;  text 
in  Gothic. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and   Providence.) 


*  Anglicl :  Compendium  of  Geography,  you,  the  Bachelor,  Martin  Fernandez  de 

which  treats  of  all  the  parts  and  regions  Enciso,  Alguazil  Mayor  of  the  Golden 

of  the  world,  and  especially  of  the  Indies ;  Castil,  have  informed  us  that  you  have 

also  at  length  of  the  art  of  navigation  and  made  for  us  a  book  on  cosmography.  .  .  . 

of  the  sphere  in  the  vernacular  [language],  Done  in  the  city  of  Saragossa,  Sept.  $th, 

together  with  the  regulation  of  the  Sun  1518,  I,  the  King.  By  order  of  the  king, 

and  North.  Newly  composed.  With  Royal  Castafleda.  Was  printed  in  the  very  noble 

Privilege.  and  loyal  city  of  Seville,  by  James  Crom- 

Royal  Privilege.    The  King.    Whereas  berger,  a  German,  A.  D.  1519. 


1 68  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

I  £  I  Q.  "  Apparently  the  first  book  printed  in  Spanish  relating  to  America  ; 
— unknown  to  Robertson.  Enciso  having  gained  a  considerable  sum 
in  St.  Domingo  by  practicing  law,  was  induced  by  Ojeda  to  join  him 
in  an  expedition  of  discovery  and  conquest  to  the  continent  of  Amer 
ica.  After  suffering  great  hardships  and  hairbreadth  escapes,  which 
are  related  by  Herrera,  he  returned  to  Spain,  and  published  this  work 
for  the  instruction  of  Charles  V.  The  account  of  America  is  prin 
cipally  from  his  own  observations." 

(RICH1.) 

We  must  add  that  Martin  Fernandez  de  Enciso  first 
came  to  the  New  World  with  Rodrigo  de  Bastidas2,  was 
Alguazil  Mayor  of  the  Golden  Castil,  and  the  owner 
of  the  vessel  as  well  as  the  planner  of  the  expedition  in 
which  Vasco  Nunez  de  Balboa3  acquired  so  much  fame. 
A  great  hydrographer  and  explorer,  his  work  is  invalu 
able  for  the  early  geographical  history  of  this  continent4. 

Speaking  of  the  supposed  edition  of  1482,  mentioned 
in  Spicilegium  veter.  Secul.  xv.  edit.,  Mendez  is  very  posi 
tive5  :  "  Dudo  6  niego  que  haya  tal  edicion,  pues  segun 
D.  Nicolas  Antonio,  no  pudo  alcanzar  el  Autor  a  este 
tiempo." 

Judging  from  the  following  passage6,  Enciso  wrote  a 
disquisition,  which  entitles  him  to  a  place  side  by  side 
with  Las  Casas7,  Francis  of  Vittoria8,  Julian  Garces9, 
and  D.  de  Avendano10,  or  perhaps  only  with  J.  Gines 
de  Sepulveda"  : 

"  Escribio  Enciso  un  papel  muy  curioso  sobre  si  los  conquista- 
dores  espanoles  podian  tener  y  poseer  indios  encomendados,  contra 


1  Bibliotheca  Americana  Vetus.  No.  4.  es   un    tratado ;  id.,    36  11.     6°  Entre  los 

a  HERRERA,  Dec.  i,  Lib.  VII,  cap.  xi.  remedies ;  id.,  53  11.    7°  Aqui  se  contienen 

'  NAVARRETE,  Disertacion  sobre  la  Hist,  unos  auisos ;  id.,  i611.      8°  Tratado  compro- 

de  la  Nautica;   Madrid,   410,   1846,  page  batoria;    id.,    1553,  80  11.      9°  Princifia 

146.  qued.     ex    quibus.   f  raced.  ;     id.,     10     11. 

4  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  10°  Resolution  a  12.  dua"as,  MS.    11°  Singul. 

p.  306;   and  DE  LA  ROQUETTE  in  Noui>.  tractatus,  MS. 

Annales  des  Voyages,  Vol.  IV,  p.  5.  8  De  Indis  et  jure  Belli,  in  Theol.  Relec- 

8  TyP°grafia    Espanola ;     Madrid,    410,  tiones ;  8vo,  1565. 

1796,  Vol.  i,  p.  170.  *    Letter  to  Paul  III,  in  PADILLA,  His- 

•  NAVARRETE,  loc.  cit.,  p.  147.  toria  de  la  fundacion  de  Santiago  ;   Madrid, 

7  i°.   BreuiJ/ima   relation;  Seville,  410,  fol.  1596. 

1552,  co  11.    2°  Lo  que  se  sigue  es  vn  fe-  10  Thesaurus indicus;  Antwerp, fol.  1668. 

dafo  f    id.,  4  11.     3°  Aqui  se  contiene   una  n  Apologia    pro    libra    de    justis    belli 

di sputa ;  id.,   6l   11.    4°  Aqui  se  contienen  causis  contra   Indos   suscepti  {    Rome,   8vo, 

treynta  proposicionet ;    id.,  10   11.     5°  Este  155°- 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  169 

los  frailes  dominicos  que  decian  que  no,  y  se  opusieron  al  despacho      I  CIQt 
de  la  expedicion  de  Pedrarias  Davila,  so  pretexto  de  quel  el  Rey  no  _ 

podia  enviar  a  hacer  tales  conquistas." 

Direct  references:  (      LEON  PINELO,  Epitome,  p.  172,  and  PINELO-BARCIA,  col.  1279. 
3  ANTONIO,  Bibliotheca  Hispania  Nova,  Vol.  n,  page  101. 
Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Vol.  vi,  No.  1525. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  9,  No.  27. 
TERNAUX,  No.  20. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  973. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  473. 

98.      VARTHEMA  &  DIA8—  ITINERARIO    ||    DE      LV-      I  $  2O. 

DOVICO    DE     VARTHEMA  BOLOGNESE  ||  nel-  == 

lo  Egitto,  nella  Soria,  nella  Arabia  de  || 
fetta,  &  Felice,  &  nella  Perfia,  ||  nella  India, 
&  nella  Ethyopia  ||  Le  fede  el  viuere/  & 
coftumi  delle  pre/  ||  fate  Prouincie.  ||  ET  AL 
PRESENTS  AGIONTOVI  ||  alcune  Ifole  nuoua- 
mente  ||  trouate.  || 

Then  large  , woodcut,  with  the  inscription  BIBELLO.  SENZA.  DIME. 

LHVOM.   FASST. 

Recto  of  leaf  89  : 

(T  Qui  finiffe  lo  Itinerario  de  Ludouico 
de  ||  Varthema  Bolognefe/  de  li  paefi  & 
Ifole  ||  la  Fede  el  viuere  &  coftumi  loro.  || 
Nuouamente  per  lui  vifti  ||  in  piu  parte. 

(T  Qui  comincia  lo  Itinerario  de  Lifola 
de  luchatan  ||  nouamente  ritrouata  per  il 
fignor  Gioan  de  ||  Grifalue  Capitan  Gen- 
erale  de  L'annata  ||  del  Re  de  Spagna  & 
per  il  fuo  Ca-  ||  peliano  copofta.  ||  Ludo.  || 

Colophon  (which,  in  this  copy,  is  somewhat  crooked,  as  the  letters 
in  two  of  the  words  are  transposed)  : 

22 


i  jo  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1520.        (Tin  Venetia    per   Matthio    Pagan  ||  in 
==  Frezzaaa  (sic),  al  fegno  ||  dell  (sic)  Fede.  ||* 

*£*  Sm.  8vo  for  size,  with  signatures  in  fours,  sine  anno.  Title 
one  leaf-)-  one  hundred  numbered  leaves  -j-  three  unnumbered 
leaves  for  the  index  -f-  one  inestimable  blank  leaf. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  extremely  rare  volume  contains  two  distinct 
works.  The  first,  by  Ludovico  de  Varthema,  sometimes 
called  Ludovicus  Patricius  Romanus,  Varomicer,  Var- 
rommicer,  Barthema,  Vartomanus,  Varibemo,  and  Varon- 
miser  ;  the  second,  which  alone  entitles  the  book  to  a 
place  in  our  Bibliotheca,  by  Juan  Diaz.  The  latter  is  a 
description  of  the  memorable  expedition  to  Yucatan 
under  Juan  de  Grijalva,  from  March  ist  to  November 
1 5th,  1518.  Grijalva  wrote  an  account  of  the  voyage, 
which  he  presented  to  Velasquez,  who  intrusted  it  to 
Oviedo  to  be  remitted  to  the  king.  This  full  report  is 
now  lost,  but  Oviedo  has  probably  embodied  it  in  his 
Historia1.  Bernal  Diaz,  who  was  a  companion  of  Gri 
jalva,  gave  also  an  account*  of  the  expedition.  As  to 
Juan  Diaz,  he  was  the  chaplain,  and  accompanied,  to 
gether  with  the  Dominican  monk  Bartolome  de  Ol- 
medo,  Hernan  Cortes  to  Yucatan  and  Mexico.  On  that 
occasion  he  was  the  first  who  said  mass  in  Yucatan 
(Feb.,  1519,  at  the  island  of  Cozumel).  He  baptized 


*  Angllce:  Itinerary  of  Ludovico  de  Var-  King    of    Spain,     and    composed     by    his 

thema  of  Bologna,  to    Egypt,  Syria,  the  chaplain. 

Desert  and  Arabia  felix,  Persia,  India,  and  At  Venice,  by  Matthew   Pagan,  at  the 

Ethiopia;  the  creeds,  manner  of  life  and  sign  of  the  Faith. 

customs    of  the    said    countries,   together  *  Historia  General  de  las  Indias,  Part  I, 

with  the   description  of  some  islands  re-  Lib.  17,  cap.  8— 1 8. 

cently  discovered.  a  Historia  -verdadera  ;  Madrid,  fol.  1632 

Here  ends  the  Itinerary  of  Ludovico  de  (two  issues  of  the  same  date).     The  reader 

Varthema,    of  Bologna,    concerning    the  may  also  consult,  concerning  the  Grijalva 

countries   and  islands,   creeds,  manner  of  expedition  :   GOMARA,  Prim,  y  scg.  pane  de 

life   and   their  customs,  recently  seen    by  lajiht.  gen.  de  las  Indias ;   Saragossa,  fol., 

him  in  several  parts.  J552-3j    HERRERA,  Decade  11,  Lib.  in, 

Here  begins  the  itinerary  to  the  island  cap.  I ;   COGOLLUDO,  Historia  de  Tucathan  ; 

of  Yucathan  recently  discovered  by  Signer  Madrid,  fol.,  1688;  LORENZANA,  Hist,  de 

Juan  de  Grijalva,  Captain-General  of  the  Nue-va  Esfafta ;  Mexico,  fol.,  1770;  CLA- 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  171 

the  famous   Malinche,  and  is  said  by  Diaz  de  la  Calle'     1 

to  have  been  the  first  priest  who  said  mass  in  the  city  of 

Mexico,  although  Gonzaga4  asserts  that  this  mass  was 
said  by  Olmedo,  and  that  Diaz  only  assisted  him. 

Diaz  wrote  a  short  itinerary  in  Spanish  of  the  expedi 
tion  of  Grijalva,  the  original  of  which  has  never  been 
published,  nor  is  it  known  to  exist.  We  find  the  first 
version  of  it  in  a  translation  into  the  Toscan  dialect. 
It  is  the  present  No.  98.  This  version  was  republished 
in  the  editions  of  1522  (infra),  1526  (infra)  and  1535 
(infra}.  It  is  not  in  the  Varthema  of  Scinzenzeler, 
Milan,  1523,  nor  has  it  been  added  to  the  reprints  of 
Varthema  in  the  various  editions  of  the  Novus  orbis  and 
of  Ramusio.  We  doubt  whether  it  is  inserted  in  any 
of  the  French,  German  or  English  editions  of  the  Itine- 
rario  which  were  published  towards  the  middle  of  the 
sixteenth  century.  We  had  the  rare  Spanish  translation 
by  de  Arcos  examined,  hoping,  as  it  bears  the  date  of 
1520  (Seville)  that  it  might  contain  the  original  text  of 
Diaz,  but  we  regret  to  say  that  Grijalva's  expedition  is 
not  inserted.  Brunet  and  Graesse  mention,  as  contain 
ing  it,  an  edition  by  Rusconi,  dated  Venice,  1520. 
This  assertion  seems  to  be  based  upon  the  Hibbert 
Catalogue  No.  8793.  The  copy  seen  at  the  Hibbert  sale 
was  an  imperfect  one,  lacking,  we  think,  the  leaf  with 
the  colophon ;  and  which  was  mistaken  for  the  edition 
published  by  Rusconi  in  1522  (infra).  We  ascribe  to  the 
present  the  date  of  1520,  but  with  no  better  reason  than 
that  it  seems  to  be  an  earlier  impression  than  any  of  the 
dated  editions  which  have  come  under  our  notice.  This 
date  is  arbitrary  altogether,  and  might  as  well  be  1521. 

There  is  a  valuable  translation  into  Spanish  of  Diaz' 
account  in   Senor  Icazbalceta's  important,   trustworthy 


VIGERO,  Storia  antica  del  Mtssico  ;  Cesena,  3  Memorial  de  las  Indias  Occident. ;  Mad- 

4to,  1780-1;   SOLIS,  Hist,  de  la  conquista  rid,  410,  1644. 

de  Mexico;    Madrid,  410,  17885    NAVAR-  *  De  origine  Scraphica:  Relig.  Tranche.  ; 

RETE,  Co/eccion,Vo\.  in,  pp.  55-64;  PRES-  Rome,  fol.,  1587. 

COTT,  loc.  cit.  8  Coleccion  de  documentor  para  la  historia 


1 72  Eibliotheca   Americana. 

1C  2O.    and  too  little  known  Coleccion*.     The  late  M.  Ternaux 
——a-—--  has  given  a  faithful  version  in  his  Recueil6. 


"  The  most  circumstantial  account  of  Grijalva's  expedition  is  to  be 
found  in  the  Itinerary  of  his  chaplain  above  quoted  [under  the  title 
of  Itinerario  del  Capellano,  MS.]  The  original  is  lost,  but  an  indif 
ferent  Italian  version  was  published  at  Venice,  in  1522.  A  copy, 
which  belonged  to  Ferdinand  Columbus,  is  still  extant  in  the  li 
brary  of  the  great  church  of  Seville.  The  book  had  become  so  ex 
ceedingly  rare,  however,  that  the  historiographer  Munoz  [and  even 
Navarrete],  made  a  transcript  of  it  with  his  own  hand,  and  from  his 
manuscript  that  in  my  possession  was  taken." 

(PRESCOTT7.) 

Direct  references  :  [  C.  R.  (Riva  of  Milan)  Catalogue,  — . 
Hanrott  Catalogue,  — . 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1094. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  I,  p.  301. 


99*     4NONYMOUS~Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

'  t* 

bet  Clemen 
gfrefiflg 


Then  woodcut  filling  the  rest  of  the  title-page,  and  representing 
vessels,  islands,  and  a  sea-port. 

*^*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco  ,•  title  one  leaf  +  two  unnumbered 
leaves  +  °ne  blank.     Neither  colophon  nor  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

This  extremely  curious  and  interesting  plaquette  pur 
ports  to  be  a  translation  into  German  of  a  letter  describ 
ing  the  arrival  of  a  vessel  from  Brazil  to  a  port  not 
mentioned,  October  i2th,  of  a  year  also  left  blank,  but 
which  is  supposed  by  Humboldt1  to  be  between  1525 
and  1540,  while  de  Varnhagen2  ascribes  to  the  expedi 
tion  the  early  date  of  1508.  The  letter  describes  an 
exploration  coastwise  of  nearly  two  thousand  miles, 


de  Mexico;    Mexico,  410,   1858,  Vol.  I,          *  Anglice :   Copy  of  a  late  letter  from 

pp.  281-308.  the  Land  of  Brazil. 

6  Rccucil  des  pieces  relatives  a  la  Conquete          *  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  p.  249. 

du  Mcxiquc;   Paris,  8vo,  1838,  pp.  1-47.          9  Historia   geral    do    Brazil ;     Madrid, 

7  Conquest  of  Mexico,  Vol.  i,  p.  229,  note.  4to,  1854. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  173 

undertaken  with  two  vessels  belonging  to  one  "No- 
no"  (  ? )  and  to  the  well-known  Christopher  de  Haro3, 
with  the  authorization  of  the  King  of  Portugal.  Hum- 
boldt  is  of  opinion  that  this  was  a  voyage  to  the  Straits 
of  Magellan  ;  Varnhagen,  on  the  other  hand,  attempts 
to  prove  that  it  is  only  the  well-authenticated  Spanish 
expedition  of  Solis  and  Pinzon.  Ternaux  seems  to 
value  the  work  only  in  so  far  as  it  "  prouve  d'une  ma- 
niere  authentique,  Tanciennete  des  relations  de  la  France 
avec  le  Bresil4."  This  assertion  rests  upon  a  single  line 
containing  a  statement  to  the  effect  that  "les  habitants 
disent  qu'il  vient  de  temps  en  temps  d'autres  vaissaux, 
et  que  ceux  qui  les  montent  sont  habilles  comme  nous ; 
d'apres  ce  qu'en  disent  les  habitants,  les  Portugais  pen- 
sent  que  ce  sont  des  Fra^ais.  Us  ont  presque  tous  la 
barbe  rouge5."  We  are  inclined  to  think  that  the  early 
date  of  the  visits  of  the  French  navigators  to  Brazil 
rests  on  better  authorities.  Even  if  we  leave  aside  the 
interesting  documents  produced  by  Des  Marquetz6  and 
the  ingenious  arguments  urged  by  M.  Estancelin7  con 
cerning  the  supposed  expedition  of  Cousin  of  Dieppe 
to  Brazil  in  1488,  we  have  authentic  deeds  and  deposi 
tions  proving  beyond  a  doubt  a  French  expedition  to 
Brazil  as  early  as  1503,  by  Binot  Paulmier  de  Gonne- 
ville8.  The  anonymous  Enforma^ao  do  Erasil  et  de  suas 


3  "J'observeraid'abord  que  1'opuscule allcmand,  «    TERNAUX,     Archives     des     Foyagcs  ; 

orne  sur  le  titre  d'une  gravure  en  bois  qui  repre-  p     •      „  ,    /.OAI\    Voi     TT     '     ,ofi 

sente  un    port  de  mer  et   deux  ilots  rocheux,  est  ^ans»  8VO>  n-    d    1IS4I;,   vol.    II,   p.  300, 

cortainement  traduit  de  I'italien  et  non  du  poitu-  note. 

gais,  comme  on  pourrait  le  supposer La  6  TERNAUX,  loc.  cit.,  p.  309. 

maison     e        ris  p  a      e      *r^   *      C fouTnissai*          "  Memoircs  chronologiqucs  pour  seriiir  a 

comme  ja-lis  celles  de  Berardi  et  de  Marchioni  i  I'histoire  de  Dieppe;   Paris,  2  vols.,  I2mo, 

Seville  et  Lisbonne,  des  fonds  pour  de  grandes  en-  1785,  Vol.  I,  pp.  93-98. 


. 

pretendues  injustices  de  la  cour  de  Lisbonne,  prit  Paris,  8vo,   1832,  pp.   37,  and   332-61. 
une   part   si  active  au  l  projet  du   detroit,'   qu'il  8  p_  j}£  GONNEVILLE,  Memoires  touchant 

±«.d'u^r  VEspSe^  loulufpa^acc^r  ^M^mnt  June  rnntion  chretienne  dans 

des  offres  si  genereuses  en  apparence,  mais  Hato  la  troisieme  monde;  Paris,  I2mo,  1663;  DE 

finit  par  s'engager  pour  la  cinquieme  partie  des  BROSSES,  Hist,   des  Navigations  aux  terres 
frais  de  1'expedition,  ou  pour  4000  ducats.     Aussi  ,     /         p     •        .t        I7e6     Voi      ,      DD 

au  retour  de  la  fameuse  nao  Victoria,  toute  la  car-  austraies  ,    f  iris,    4to,    1750,    vol.    i,    pp. 

gaison  de  cloux  de  giroffe  lui  fut  remise."     HUM-  104-1145    D  AVEZAC,    in    Bulletin    de  la 

BOLDT,  loc.  cit.  Societe  de  Geographic,  Vol.  xiv.  p.  172. 


174  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2O.  capitanias9,  also  mentions  the  arrival  of  French  vessels 
.  into  the  port  of  Bahia  in  1 504,  which  date  is  corrobo 
rated  by  another  account  published  by  Ramusio10,  and 
mentioning  the  discoveries  made  by  Jean  Denys,  a  na 
tive  of  the  hospitable  and  ever  gratefully-remembered 
town  of  Honfleur,  in  Normandy. 

This  curious  and  enigmatic  account  was  probably  writ 
ten  originally  in  Portuguese,  then  translated  into  Italian, 
from  which  the  present  version  seems  to  have  been 
made.  Humboldt  gives"  an  excellent  analysis  of  the 
plaquette,  made  from  a  copy  in  the  Dresden  library. 
There  is  a  French  translation  in  Ternaux'  Archives  des 
Voyages™^  and  extracts  in  the  Portuguese  language  have 
been  inserted  by  Varnhagen  in  his  valuable  and  too 
little  known  History  of  Brazil13. 

The  date  of  1520  is  altogether  arbitrary,  and  rests  on 
no  other  foundation  than  mere  inferences  tending  to 
show  that  the  account  may  have  been  written  soon  after14 
the  expedition  of  Magellan,  and  the  fact  that  this  date, 
having  been  given  already  in  some  catalogues,  it  may 
facilitate  researches. 

Direct  references :  f  ZAPF,  Augsb.  Buctidruckergeschichte,  Vol.  n,  page  202,  No.  ix. 
<  Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  page  835. 
(  Bibliotheca  Bronvniana,  page  10,  No.  30. 

I  O  O .     IDEM  OP  US— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Mclueu  Se^tung 
efWa  Stmbt. 

Then,  instead  of  the  above-described  vignette,  a  large  woodcut 
representing  the  royal  arms  of  Portugal. 

Colophon  : 

(E  (Betntrft  $u  9fojjftw?fj  burdj  drljart  oglin. 

*Jlt*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  ;  title  one  leaf  4*  three  unnumbered  leaves, 
the  third  containing  only  ten  lines,  including  the  colophon. 
For  water-mark,  a  cup, 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


*  Re-vista  trimcnsal ;    Rio    de    Janeiro,  1J  Loc.  cit.,  Vol.  v,  pp.  239-258. 

Vol.  vi,  pp.  412-414.  la  Vol.  ir,  pp.  306-310. 

10  Discorso   (fun  gran  cafitano  di  mare  18  pp.  434-435,  note. 

Francese,  Vol.  in,  foil.  423-432.  '*  If  not  before  !     See  infra,  p.  175. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  175 

This  edition  presents  differences  in  the  orthography 
throughout,  but  not  to  such  an  extent  as  to  give  new 
readings,  especially  of  the  mysterious  passage : 

"  Uub  tooUcu  bie  (*rfamcu  ^ovtunalefcr  fagen  co  fcicu 
®ejtyiter,  fo  gettMtafttpa  nttbigieren,"  and  of  the  expres 
sion  "  9lo?t  5lff?U,"  which  so  greatly  perplexed  von 
Hagen  and  Humboldt.  Yet,  had  Humboldt  and  de 
Varnhagen  enjoyed  an  opportunity  to  consult  it,  they 
might  have  modified  their  views.  The  reader  will  no 
tice  that  this  bears  on  the  title-page  a  large  woodcut 
representing  the  royal  arms  of  Portugal.  This  must  be 
viewed  as  one  more  indication  that  the  translator  or 
printer  considered  the  plaquette  as  giving  an  account 
of  a  voyage  undertaken  under  the  auspices  of  Portugal, 
and  not,  as  Varnhagen  is  inclined  to  think,  of  a  Spanish 
expedition  under  Solis  and  Pinzon.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  plaquette  was  printed  by  Erhard  Oeglin, 
which  militates  against  the  conjecture  of  Humboldt 
that  the  events  it  relates  transpired  between  the  years 
1525  and  1540.  This  Erhard  Oeglin  or  Oglin,  some 
times  called  Erhard  Ocellus  of  Reutlingen,  was  already 
in  partnership  with  John  Otmar  in  1505.  Judging  from 
a  careful  examination  of  Zapf's  Augsburgs  Euchdrucker- 
geschichte1,  Oglin  does  not  seem  to  have  printed  after 
1516,  when  he  enjoyed  the  then  uncommon  title  of  Im 
perial  Printer.  Nor  should  we  forget  that  there  are 
internal  evidences2  tending  to  show  that  the  translation 
was  made  from  an  Italian  version,  itself  probably  taken 
from  the  Portuguese.  All  these  transformations  im 
ply  a  certain  lapse  of  time,  which,  when  added  to  the 
probability  that  the  German  printer  had  ceased  to 
print  after  1516,  present  materials  for  a  new  history 
of  the  voyages  to  the  southern  seas,  which  may  yet 
prove  that  what  is  now  termed  the  Straits  of  Magel 
lan  was  visited  before  1519,  and  that  Christopher  de 


1  Augsburg,   410,    1788,    Vol.    I,   page          8  Note   B    to   Vol.    v    of  the    Examen 
XLIIJ,  and  Vol.  n,  p.  202,  No.  ix.  Critique,  page  245. 


i76 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


2O.    Haro,    imparted  to   his  intimate   friend   Magellan   the 
—  indications  which  led  to  the  memorable  voyage  of  the 
nao  Victoria. 

We  must  also  be  permitted  to  remark  that  this  wood 
cut  adds  weight  to  our  assertion  when  describing  the 
.escutcheon  of  Granada  in  the  second  edition3  of  the 
Columbus  letter  (supra,  p.  n),  that  armorial  bearings 
are  no  sure  tests  to  determine  where  the  book  was 
printed,  as  in  the  present  instance  we  have  an  Augs 
burg  edition,  which,  instead  of  the  well-authenticated 
vignete  of  a  pine-apple,  contains  the  arms  of  Portugal. 
Had  the  present  copy  of  this  Augsburg  plaquette  lacked 
the  colophon,  as  is  frequently  the  case  with  those  early 
printed  sheets,  it  might  have  been  ascribed  to  a  Lisbon 
or  Evora  printer  by  the  bibliographers  who  accept  the 
theory  that  a  coat-of-arms  on  the  title-page  indicates 
that  the  book  was  printed  in  the  country  which  assumes 
the  inserted  escutcheon. 


I  O  I .     ANONYMOUS— Within  a  border  : 

C  PROVINCIAE   SIVE  ||  REGIONES    IN   INDIA  ||  OCCI- 

DENTALI  NOVI||TER  REPERTA  IN  ||  VLTIMA  NA- ||  VI- 
GATIO- 1|  NE.-. 

In  fine : 

Et  Valleoletti feptima  ||  Martij.  Millefimo  Quingentejimo  vigejimo.\\* 

*.,,*  Very  sm.  410,  fourteen  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title. 

Private  Library,  New  York. 

Account  of  the  conquest  of  Cuba  by  Diego  Velas 
quez  ;  and  is  a  translation  into  Latin  of  a  Spanish  ac 
count,  as  yet  unknown1. 

3  We   use  the  words  second  edition  on          *  Anglice  :    The  provinces    or   regions 

the  strength  of  the  following  endorsement  in  the  West  Indies  recently  discovered  in 

by  such  a  high  authority  as  M.  D'Avezac:  the   last   navigation.     Valladolid,    March 

"  Je  portage  coiipletement  -votre  opinion  sur  yth,  1850. 

Pordre  chronologique  des  six  editions  de  1493          *  On  the  verso  of  leaf  c-iiij   there  is  a 

par  vous  decrites."  letter  from  Peter  Acosta. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  177 

I  O2.     PETER  MARTYR  (?)—  Within  an   ornamented  border  :          IC2O. 

$ie  fdjlffnng  mitt  ||  bent  Sannbt  ber  ||  (Stalben  Snfelge-  == 
funDc  bitrd)  I  §ern  .Joljau  bo  9lngliara||  ^atojjtnwn  beg 
(Stiffen  ||  litfjcn  Alitntfl*  uo  §if  Urania,  gar  fjubftfj 

vu  1)0  re  mit  ||  alien  ijreu  lebcu  ||  iwb  fit-  1|  ten.  ||  ^  || 


*J|e*  Sm.  410,  //»£  rf«»0  <z»^  /<?«,  title  one  leaf-|-  two  unnumbered 
leaves.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and   Providence.) 

A  foreign  catalogue1  ascribes  four  leaves  to  this  work, 
and  adds  the  following  notice  : 

"  Premiere  edition  allemande  de  la  premiere  lettre  de  Pierre  Mar 
tyr,  sur  la  decouverte  du  nouveau  continent,  tres-rare." 

Pinelo-Barcia,  Antonio,  Meusel,  Jocher,  &c.,  are  all 
silent  concerning  this  or  any  other  "  Johan  von  An- 
gleria."  Peter  Martyr  is  probably  intended  ;  but  what 
is  meant  by  his  "  first  letter  concerning  the  discovery  of 
the  new  continent,"  we  have  failed  to  discover2. 

Direct  references  :  f  GRAESSE,  Vol.  I,   page    130,  on   whose  authority  (in  the  absence 
-(       of  any  other)  we  ascribe  the  date  of"  vers  1520." 
(  Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  page  10,  No.  30. 

IO3.     ALBERTINI  (FR.  DE)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

i&otne 


©pufculu  ire 
$,oue  et  ftJetmg  urbte 
Home  etritu.  a  d 
cifco  Eltettino 
jFlorentino 

* 

OTum 


1  Asher's,  for  1858,  No.  35.  dated  the  ides  of  May,  1493,  which  is  the 

*  See  Opus  Efistolarum   Petri  Martyris  first   letter   of   Peter    Martyr   mentioning 

(infra)  and  Notes  on  Columbus,  pp.  129-135,  that    startling    event.       The     description 

for  the  Epist.   cxxx   to  Joseph    Borromeo,  covers  only  five  lines. 


178  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

I  C2O«         The  title  is  within  a  highly  ornamented  border,  surmounted  by  a 
________  vignette  representing  the  gates  of  a  city,  and  terminating  with  two 

woodcut  portraits,  which  we  have  failed  to  identify. 

Colophon  : 

Impffu  Lugd.9  p  loan,  mario  fuptib9 
&  expefis  Romani  morin  bi-  ||  bliophile 
eiufde  ciuitatis.  ano  dni  M.D.XX.  die  vero. 
xxviii,  martii.  || 

*;jc*  410,  title  one  leaf  +  sixty  leaves  numbered  in  Arabic  nu 
merals  on  the  recto,  repeating  56  twice  ;  on  the  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  two  woodcuts,  the  lower  being  a  papal  coat-of-arms. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  edition  reproduces,  without  any  alterations,  the 
passage  referring  to  Vespuccius,  which  we  have  inserted 
supra,  in  describing  the  edition  of  1510  (No.  64). 
Clement  ascribes  to  the  present,  "  Feuillets  57." 

Direct  references:  f  Bibliotheca  Sarraxiatta,   Part  n,  p.    117,  and    Biblioth.  Anonym. 
-j        Hagac-Com.  ap.  BEAUREGARD  1744,  p.  161,  cited  by: 
I   CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  Curicuse,  Vol.  i,  page  121. 

104.  PTOLEMT-ESSLER-UBELIN—  "  Ptolemaeus  auctus 
reftitutus  emaculatus,  cum  tabulis  veteribus  et  novis 
[opera  Georgii  Ubelii].  Am.  E.  von  Buck  8  :  loannes 
Scotus  Argentorati  literis  excepit  MDXX. — Diefe  Aufg. 
enthalt  XLVII  Tabulae,  Geographicae  in  Holfchn.  Bern- 
har,  Aretiri s  Beytrage  Bd.  V.  p.  535  fagt,  dafs  in  der 
Bibl.  zu  Munchen  zwei  Exx.  seien  mit  roth,  und  eins 
mit  fchwarzegedr.  Titel." 

(MEUSEL*  and  HOFFMANN".) 

Reimpression  of  No.  74,  which  see. 

"  Dans  le  texte  les  noms  propres  en  grec  sont  omis :  1'atlas  y  est  de 
meme  double  comme  dans  1'edition  de  1513." 

(LELEWEL*.) 


1  Annal.  Tyf.,  Vol.  v.  Part  II,  p.  1 88.  *  Geographic   du    Moycn  Age,  Vol.   IT, 

8  Bibliogr.   Lexicon,  Vol.  ill,  p.  319.          Appendix,  p.  208. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  179 

ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I52O< 

ettii^et  » 

jenDbvicff  bem  allcr  bur  dj  leu  djtigtftcu  ||  groffmedjttgifte 
gftrften  tmb  §erren  §erren  <£arl  SRomifdjen  tmb  II  §ty- 
fottttifdif  Miwifl  &c  unfcrm  gttebiben  Ijcnt  burd)  ire  Der- 
orbent  ||  .©au^tlcut  Don  toegen  ciucr  neiti  gefunbe  3« 
feln,  ber  felfie  gefegenllljeit  dnb  jumaner  jltten  tin  ge- 
loonijcitc  iulialtcnb  nor  Alur^ucrfdji-  1|  ucit  tagcn  pge- 
fanbt.  || 

Then  woodcut  representing  the  landing  of"  armed  men  from  a  man- 
of-war. 

Colophon  on  verso  of  the  seventh  leaf: 

©ettuift  in  ber  feiferlidjen  @tat  ^litrmfierg  bnri||| 
Srtibcridjcu  ^{m§|tmb  fclt^flidj  tiolcnb  II  am.  17.  tag 
9Jtarcij|be3  jav§  bo  man||  jalt  nad)  ^Hfti  nnferS  UeBewll 
getet. 


*#*  410,   title   one   leaf  -j-  six    unnumbered    leaves  -j-  one    blank; 
thirty-eight  lines  to  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

This  rare  plaquette  contains  a  relation  of  the  expedi 
tions  of  Francisco  Hernandez  de  Cordova,  Grijalva 
and  Cortes  to  Yucatan,  taken  apparently  from  Peter 
Martyr's  Decades. 

Direct  reference:   Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  10,  No.  29. 

1  06.    ALBERTINI  (FR.  £>£)—"  Opufculum  de  Mirabili- 
bus  novse  et  veteris  Urbis  Romae. 
Bononiae,  1520,  4to." 

^Bibliotheca  Heberiana1.) 


*  Anglice  :    An    extract    from    several  scribing    its    locality,    the    customs    and 

missives  to  the  most  illustrious  and  power-  habits  of  its  inhabitants.     Printed  in   the 

ful  prince  and  lord   Charles,  King  of  the  Imperial  city  of  Nuremberg,  by  Frederick 

Romans  and  of  Spain.     Our  gracious  lord  Peypus,  and  happily  finished  March  lyth, 

sent    through    his   appointed    captains    an  A.  D.  1520. 

account  of  a  recently-discovered  island,  de-  *  Part  vi,  No.  ia8. 


180  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1520.  107.  PIGGHB  (4LBERT)-A\bertvs  Pi  ||  Ghius 
— — —  Campen  ||  iis  de  cequinodiorvm  fol  ||  fti- 
tioruque  inuentione  Ad.  R.  in  Chrifto 
patrem  D  Fra  ||  cifcum  Molinium  Abbatem 
S.  Maximini,  a  Secretis  &  coiilio  .  R  .  Fran- 
corum  Chriftianifs.  &  pijs  largitionibus 
eius  ||  dem  prcepofitum  primarium  || 

Eiufdem  de  ratione  Pafcha  ||  lis  cele- 
brationis/  Deque  Reftitutione  ecclefiaftici 
Kalen  ||  darij.  Ad  Beatiffimum  Patrem 
Leonem  X  Pontificem  ||  Maximum.  || 

venundantur  Pari{ij/  in  vico  Diui  lacobi 
fub  fcuto  Bafilienfi.  || 

Cvm  privile  ||  gio  ad  Trien  ||  nivm.  || 

*,,.*  Sm.  folio,  sine  anno  (the  second  treatise  bears  the  date  of  1520). 

(Imperial  Library  at  Paris.) 

The  above  title  has  proved  to  us  such  a  fruitful 
cause  of  disappointments  and  vain  researches  in  the 
dusty  garret  of  an  old  church,  and  in  the  damp  cellars 
of  our  dealers  in  second-hand  books,  that  it  is  not  with 
unmitigated  sorrow  that  we  find  ourselves  constrained 
to  state  that  Albert  Pigghe,  frequently  called  Pighius 
Campensis  (1490-1 542'),  was  frightfully  homely1,  a 
Pelasgian3,  and  probably  a  plagiarist. 

A  certain  stress  has  been  placed  by  Humboldt4  upon 
the  following  passage,  which  the  reader  will  find  on 
page  28  : 


1  NICERON,  Memoircs,  Vol.  xxxix.  *  CALVIN,     Resfons.     contra     Pighium, 

3  "  la   brutezza  d'un    viso    tanto    spia-  Opusc.    TAeol.,   p.    140,    in    BAYLE,    Dic- 

ceuole,"    Govio,  de  gli  Hvomini  famosi  in  tionnaire,  Vol.  m,  p.  721,  note. 

lettcrc,  p.  222.  *  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  145. 


Bibtiotheca   Americana.  1 8 1 

Terra   etiam    noua    Chriftianiffimi   hif-    1520, 
panarium  regis  aufpiciis  a  Vefputio  nuper  *== 
inuenta/  quam  ob  fui  magnitudinem  mun- 
durn   nouum    appellant   vltra   oequatorem 
plus  35  gradibus  vefputii  obfervatione  pro- 
tendi  cognita  eft  et  necdum  finis  inuentus.5 

"  Fa  stupore  egualmente,"  says  Canovai",  "  che  Alberto  Pighio  Cam- 
pense  nell'  anno  1520  conservi  i  suoi  diritti  al  Vespucci  ad  onta  di 
tutte  le  macchine  che  contro  di  lui  gia  cominciava  ad  innalzare  la 
potente  Famiglia  del  Colombo  :  terra  etiam  nova,  &c." 

Direct  references  :  (  MIGNE,  Encyclopedic  Theologique,  Vol.  XLII,  col.  670. 
•j    CANCELLIERI,  Dissertation!,  page  46. 
|    WATT,  Bibliotheca  Britannica,  Vol.  n,  col.  757. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  289 ;  and,  if  we  can  trust  a  memorandum 
half-effaced,  WADLER,  Bibliotbeca  Astronomies,  page  339;   PAN 
ZER,   Annales    Typogr.,  Vol.   vm,    page    69 ;   BLOUNT,    Centura 
Celebr.  Author.,  page  417. 


I  O  8 .     SOLINUS-CAMERS—  Within  an  ornamental  border : 

IOANNIS  CAMERTIS  MINORI  ||  TANI.  AR- 
TIVM/  ET  SA-  ||  CRAE  THEOLOGIAE  ||  DOCTORIS/ 
IN.  C.  IVLII  ||  SOLIN  nOAVi'ETQPA  ||  ENARRATIO-  || 
NES.  || 

Additus  eiufdem  Camertis  Index/  ||  turn 
literarum  ordine,  turn  re-  |  rum  notabiliu 
copia/  per-  ||  comodus  Studiofis.  ||  Cum 
Gratia  &  Priuile-  ||  gio  Imperiali.  || 


8  Anglice :    The    new    land    lately  dis-  by  the  observation  of  Vespuccius    to  ex- 
covered  by  Vespuccius  under  the  auspices  tend   further  than  thirty-five  degrees  be- 
of  the  most  Christian  King  of  the  Spains,  yond  the  equator,  and  the  end  of  it  has 
and  which,  on  account   of  its   magnitude,  not  yet  been  found, 
has  been  called  the  new  world,  is  known  *  tr'agg'>  PP-  Z99>  300  (ed.  1817). 


1 82  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Colophon: 
EXCVSVM   EST   HOC  OPVS  SOLINI-  ||  anUHl    (5u 

Ennerationibus  egregii  facre  The-  ||  ologiae 
Dod:oris  IOANNIS  CA-  ||  MERTIS  Minoritani, 
Anno  na-  ||  tiuitatis  domini.  M.D.XX.  || 
Viennae  Auftriae  per  lo-  ||  anne  Singreniu, 
im-  ||  peniis  honefti  ||  LVCAE  ALANTSE,  ciuis/ 
Bibli-  ||  opolae  Viennenfis.  | 

*#*  Folio,  title  one  leaf-)-  seven  preliminary  leaves  -f-  three  hun 
dred  and  thirty-six  pages  +  two  unnumbered  leaves,  with  the 
above  colophon  on  the  recto  of  the-  second,  followed  by  a 
woodcut  representing  two  griffins  supporting  a  shield,  sur 
mounted  by  a  tree  -f-  fifteen  leaves  for  index,  on  the  verso  of 
the  last,  Singrenius'  mark.  Text  in  Roman  characters. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  Der  Minorite  Gamers  (^sein  eigentlicher  weltlicher  Name  war 
Giovanni  Rienzzi  Vellini1,  aus  Camerino  in  Umbrien  gebiirtig  und 
Lehrer  in  Wien  [1468-1546])  datirt  seine  Vorrede  zum  Solinus  Vien 
nae*  Pannoniae  VI.  Calendas  Febr.  anno  post  Christi  natalem 
MDXX.  Apianus  (Peter  Biencwitz,  geb.  1495  zu  Leissnig  bei  Meis 
sen),  gibt  folgenden  Titel  seiner  Karte,  auf  der  zuerst  der  Name 
Amerika  in  dem  siidlichen  Theile  des  Neuen  Kontinents  eingeschrie- 
ben  ist :  Typus  Orbis  universalis  juxta  Ptolomei  Cosmographi  Tra- 
ditionem  et  Americi  Vespucii  aliorumque  lustrationes  a  Petro  Apiano 
Leysn.  elaboratus,  Anno  Do.  MDXX.  Der  Isthmus  von  Panama 
ist  auf  der  Karte  des  Apianus  von  einer  Meerenge  durchschnitten, 
was  um  so  merkwiirdiger  ist,  als  dieser,  bis  in  die  neuesten  Chines- 
ischen  Weltkarten  fortgepflantze  offene  Isthmus  sich  auch  auf  dem 
Globus  von  Johann  Schoner  findet,  der  dasselbe  Alter  hat.  Dazu 
fiigt  die  Karte  des  Apianus  in  der  Ausgabe  des  Gamers  iiber  den 
am  grossten  geschriebenen  Namen  America  die  Inschrift  hinzu  : 
Anno  1497  haec  terra  cum  adjacentibus  insulis  inventa  est  per  Co- 
lumbum  Januensem  ex  mandate  Regis  Castillae." 

(HuMBOLDT*.) 


1  CLEMENT,  Biblioth.  Cur.  Vol.  vi,  p.  146.  not    state    whether    this    edition   contains 

*  There   is    another   edition  of  Solinus  likewise  the  map  which  imparts  so  much 

of  the  same  date,  supposed  by  some  authors  importance  to  the  Vienna  book, 

to  be  anonymous,  but  which  was  also  pub-  '  Within  a  highly  ornamented  border  : 

lished    by    Gamers.     As    it   is    extremely  C.  I VLII  ||  SOLINI  POLYHISTOR,  || 

rare,  we  insert  in  this  place  a  transcript  of  SEV    RERVM    ORBIS    ME  ||  MORA- 

the  title,  although  our  memorandum  does  BILIVM  COLECTANEA.  || 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  183 

This  remarkable  map,  which,  thus  far,  is  the  earliest  with  the 
name  of  America  inscribed,  is  inserted  close  to  the  verso  of  the 
eighth  leaf.  It  is  a  woodcut  \\\  -}-  *6  inches,  with  an  ornamented 
border,  and  bears  the  following  inscription  : 

TIPvs  ORBIS  VNIVERSAL'S  IVXTA 
PTOLOMEI  C°SM°GRAPHI  TRA- 
DITIONEM  ET  AME  ||  RIG1  VESPVCII 
ALICHQVE  LVSTRATIONES  A  PE- 
TRO  APIANO  LEYSNIC0  ELVCRJ9  || 
AN.  DO  M.DXX3.  || 

The  southern  continent  is  separated  from  the  northern,  and  ex 
tends  just  to  the  equator.  On  the  southern  part,  we  read  : 

Anno  1497,  hac  terra  cum  adiacetib9 
infulis  inueta  eft  per  Columbum  lanuen- 
fem  ex  mandate  regis  caftelle  AMERICA 
puincia. 

North,  several  islands,  one  marked  ISABELLA,  under  which  the 
following  queer  inscription  : 

Spagnolla  infula  in  qua  rep/r  guaicu 
lignum. 

Which   would   almost    entitle   the  work   of   Ulrich  de 

Hutten  on  Guaicum  wood  to  a  place  in  our  Bibliotheca. 

The    northern    continent    is    termed  Terra  incognita. 

This  valuable  map  was  also  inserted  in  the  Pomponius 


Verso  of  the  title-page  :  published    in    that   city,    folio,    1538,    by 

SOLINI    VITA  ||  PER     IOANNEM  Sebastian  Miinster  (as  appears  on  p.  46  of 

CAMERTEM  EDITA.  ||  this  Basle  edition)  intended  ?     See  FREY- 

Colophon:  TAG,  Apparat.  Lift.,  Vol.  in,  p.  649. 
Colonies  apud  Eucharium   Ccruicor  ||  nunt          *  Anglice  :    Delineation    of  the    entire 

&  Hcroncm   Fuchs.  Anno  ||  uirginci  partus.  world,    prepared    according  to   the    teach- 

M.D.  ||  XX.  mcnsc  Decem-  \\  bri.  ||  ing    of   Ptolemy    the    cosmographer,    and 

*.£*  410,  ninety-two  numbered  leaves.  the     voyages     of     Americus     Vespuccius 

It   is  also  stated    that  there  is  a  Basle  and     others,     by    Peter    Apian    of   Leiss- 

edition    of  Gamers.     Is    not    the    So/inus  nig  [Saxony]. 


184  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

Mela  of  1522  (infra],  and  necessarily  preceded  the  map- 
>.pemonde  bearing  also  the  word  America,  and  inserted  in 
the  sumptuous  Ptolemy  of  1522  (infra], 

The  cartography  of  the  sixteenth  century  is  of  such 
importance  to  the  student  of  American  history  that  we 
deem  it  necessary  to  devote  more  space  to  maps  and 
geographical  works  than  has  been  heretofore  the  custom 
in  bibliographical  compilations.  We  will,  therefore, 
describe  all  the  maps  contained  in  the  works  before  us, 
and  add,  at  the  end  of  the  present  volume,  a  Cartographia 
Americana,  or  description  of  the  geographical  delinea 
tions  engraved  or  printed  separately,  before  1550. 
Researches  have  also  been  instituted  in  the  Imperial, 
Mazarine  and  St.  Genevieve  libraries  at  Paris,  for  the 
purpose  of  bringing  to  light  the  manuscript  maps  of 
that  period  which  refer  to  America. 

Direct  references:  (  FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Latina  (ed.  1721),  Vol.  i,  page  415. 
\    MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  v,  Part  n,  page  250. 
I    ERNESTI,  introd.  to  the  Bipont  edit,  of  So/inus,  8vo,  1794,  page  x. 
Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  x,  No.  723. 
EBERT,  Dictionary. 
1  Introd.  to  GHILLANY,  Gcschichtc  des  S.  Bchaim,  p.  8. 


I  OQ.     MONTALEODDO  (FRANC.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

$aefi  nouamente  ritrouati  per  II  la  Nauigatione 
di  Spagna  in  Calicut.  Et  da  Alber  ||  tutio 
Vefputio  Florentine  intitulato  Mon  ||  do 
Nouo.  Nouamente  Impreffo.  || 

Then  vignette  representing  Venice,  filling  the  rest  of  the  page. 
Colophon  : 

C  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zorzo  de 
Rufconi  Milla  ||  nefe.  Nel.  M.D.XXI.  adi. 
xy.  de  Febraro. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  185 

*#*  Sm.  410  for  size;   title  one   leaf  +  one  hundred  and  twenty     I  Cj  2  I 
unnumbered  leaves  for   text  -f-  three   unnumbered  leaves  for  _ 

the  table.     Printed  in  Roman  in  two  columns. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Mr.  Hanrott,  in  a  note  to  the  Grenville  copy,  states 
that  this  edition,  "  though  not  so  rare  as  the  preceding 
ones  of  1507  (No.  48)  and  1508  (No.  55),  contains 
more  at  the  end."  Per  contra,  Nodier  says1  that  all  the 
editions,  except  these  two,  "ont  eprouve,  dans  plusieurs 
endroits  du  texte,  des  alterations  sensibles,  et  pour  des 
causes  particulieres,"  while  Brunet1  calls  this  number  a 
"simple  reimpression  de  1'edit.  de  1517"  (No.  90)  ; 
and  then  proceeds  to  reopen  the  controversy  as  regards 
the  original  compiler  of  the  Paesi,  in  these  words : 

"  Ce  nom  de  Montalboddo  Fracan.  ou  Franc. (anzano)  se  lit  cer- 
tainement  dans  toutes  les  editions  de  ce  recueil.  Nous  voyons  meme 
que  c'est  celui  sous  lequel  est  placee  1'edition  de  1507,  dans  la  Bib- 
lioth.  pinelL,  qui  passe  pour  etre  1'ouvrage  de  1'abbe  Morelli.  Ce- 
pendant  ce  savant  bibliothecaire,  dans  ses  notes  sur  la  lettre  de  Co- 
lomb3,  dit  que  le  recueil  de  voyages  (Mondo  novo)  imprime  a  Vicence, 
en  1507,  a  etc  donne  par  les  soins  d'un  certain  Fracanzio,  natif  de 
Monte  Albodo,  dans  la  marche  d'Ancone,  et  reprend  a  ce  sujet  ceux  qui, 
d'apres  la  mauvaise  le^on  de  1'epitre  citee,  ont  attribue  ce  livre  a  un 
pretendu  Montalboddo  Francanzano.  C'est  aussi  ce  que  repete  Zurla, 
di  Marco  Palo,  vol.  n,  p.  1 08." 

This  note  of  Brunet,  together  with  the  use  which  we 
made  of  Zorzi's  name  in  mentioning  the  preceding  edi 
tions  of  the  present  work,  and  the  alteration  introduced 
at  the  suggestion  of  M.  D'Avezac  (see  supra,  No.  70) 
make  it  incumbent  on  us  to  state  our  authorities  for 
ascribing  then  the  compilation  of  the  Paesi  to  Alexan 
der  Zorzi. 

1  Catalogue  of  1844,  Part  i,  No.  1042.  di  grande  rnerito  indotti  furono  a  nomin- 

a  Vol.  v,  col.  1159.  are  quel  raccoglitore  dalla  guasta  lezione, 

3  "...    per  opera   di  un    Fracanzio,  che  il  libro  nella  lettera   dedicatoria,  con 

che  ivi  professava  Lettere,  ed  era  nativo  da  altre    molte    d'importanza,    presenta  :    le 

Monte    Alboddo,  terra   nella  Marca  An-  quali  bene  spesso  vennero  adottate  da  Fra 

conitana ;    non   di   un   Montalboddo  Fra-  Arcangelo  da  Madrignano,"  &c.  (Lettera 

canzano  Vicentino,  siccome  scrittori  anche  rarissima,  pp.  45-46). 

24 


1 86  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C2I.        In  the  first    place,  we  had  the  authority   of  Hum- 
_  boldt4,  and  in  the  second  place  the  explicit  statement  of 

Baldelli,  upon  which  it  is  based.  Baldelli,  in  his  ex 
tremely  curious  note5  to  the  Milione,  mentions  his  dis 
covery  in  the  Magliabechi  Library  of  a  copy  of  the  col 
lection  of  voyages  known  as  the  Paesl  of  1507,  which 
contained  a  transcript  of  a  letter  stating  that  when  Bar 
tholomew  Columbus  visited  Rome  in  1505  he  made  a 
present  of  the  account  of  his  brother's  discoveries  to  a 
certain  canon,  who  afterwards  gave  it  to  "  the  compiler 
of  the  said  collection — compilatore  della  raccolta  pre- 
detta"  Not  having  the  means  of  consulting  that  let 
ter,  which,  so  far  as  we  know,  has  never  been  printed, 
we  were  constrained  to  accept  Baldelli's  version  of  it, 
which  we  had  no  reason  to  question.  At  all  events, 
Humboldt  was  perfectly  justified  in  making  his  state 
ment  on  the  authority  of  Baldelli.  It  is  only  for  those 
who  have  had  the  good  fortune  of  reading  the  contents 
of  the  letter  itself  to  state,  if  such  is  the  case,  that  the 
learned  editor  of  Marco  Polo's  Milione  misunderstood 
its  purport.  True  it  is  that  the  manuscript  additions 
to  the  Magliabechi  copy  contain  notes,  which  are  also 
ascribed  to  Zorzi,  and  imply  a  date  later  than  1507,  but 
there  is  no  evidence  that  Zorzi  was  not  living  as  late  as 
1524.  Zeno,  Fontanelli,  Tiraboschi,  and  nearly  all 
the  historians  of  Italian  Literature,  whose  works  we 
have  been  able  to  consult,  ignore  our  Zorzi,  but  we  can 


4  Examcn  Critique.  Vol.  IV,  p.  80  (id.  classate  per  ordine  cronologico.  Ho  con  diligenza 
.  f\  studiata  questa  raccolta,  ed  ho  scoperto  chi  ne  fosse 
supra,  p.  90;.  ;,  raccogijtore.  Nel  volume  secondo,  dopo  la 
"  Una  scoperta  da  me  fatta,  reca  alcuin  lumi,  copia  d>una  iettera  dj  Simone  del  Verde  Florentine, 
e  necessita  delie  rettificaziom  important!,  relativa-  scritta  di  Spaglia  a  Matteo  Cini  mercante  Fioren- 
mente  all1  illustrazione  di  questo  celebre  mappa-  tillo  in  yenezia  a  di  z.  Gennajo  1498.  (Stil. 
mondo  [fra  Mauro  s].  Esiste  nella  Bibhoteca  Mag-  Florentine)  nella  quale  lo  ragguaglia  della  prima 
liabechiana  (Class,  xin.  var.  Palch.  8.  Cod.  n.  zi.  navigazione  del  Colombo,  segue:  '  Informazione 
e  84.)  la  celebre  Raccolta  Vicentma  delle  naviga-  di  fiartolommeo  Colombo  della  navigazion  di  Po- 
zione  del  Portughesi,  della  quale  sara  in  acconcio  nentCi  e  Garbin  nel  Mondo  Nuovo '  e  si  racconta 
in  altroluogo  il  ragionare,  divisa  espressamente  in  cne  Ileu'  essere  Bartolommeo  in  Roma  nel  1505, 
due  volumi,uno  contenente  gli  scuoprimenti  orien-  dopo  ta  morte  d;  suo  fratello  Cristoforo  la  diede  ad 
tali,  1'altro  gli  occidental!.  E  il  primo  volume  un  frate  jeronimo  Canonico  regolare  in  S.  Giovan 
intitolato  Nicole  Conti :  e  cio  perche  il  viaggio  Laterano,  e  questi  essendo  in  Venezia  diede  una 
del  medesimo  della  dettatura  originate  del  Poggio  carta  de;  dett;  scuoprimenti,  e  la  relazione  di  Bar 
er  in  fronte  del  volume.  II  secondo  e  intitolato  Al-  tolommeo  ad  Alessandro  Zorzi,  suo  amico  «  am- 
berico,  perche  contiene  le  navigazioni  di  Americo  fnat,re  dtlla  ratcolta  fredettn  (v.  II.  Intit.  Alber. 
Vespucci.  Cio  che  rende  pregievohssima  delta  gz)  „  S((/ria  dd  Mi/ione  .  Florence,  410, 
raccolta  e  che  vi  sono  state  aggiunte  le  relazioni  r  '  ' 
interessantissime  ed  inedite  di  parecchi  viaggiatori  I<>27>  *Ol.  I,  p.  XXXII,  note. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  187 

find  nothing  in  Foscarini6  (who  seems  to  be  the  foun- 
tain-head  of  all  information  concerning  this  viaggiafore 
erudito]  which  precludes  the  possibility  of  his  having 
annotated  his  own  work.  But  we  always  defer  cheer 
fully  to  the  opinion  of  those  in  whose  experience  and 
erudition  we  have  been  taught  to  place  confidence,  and 
did  not  hesitate  to  substitute  the  name  of  Fracanzano 
Montalboddo  in  the  place  of  that  of  Alessandro  Zorzi 
as  the  author  of  this  most  valuable  collection  of  voyages, 
— which  at  no  distant  day  we  intend  to  reprint  word 
for  word,  without  notes  or  additions  of  any  kind. 

Direct  references:  |"  TERNAUX,  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  No.  23. 
Bibliotheca  GrenviHiana,  page  765. 
Hanrott,  Langles  and  Libri  (1859)  Catalogues. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1159. 


I  IO.   MARTYR  (PETER)— Within  a  border  designed  by  Holbein: 
DE     NVPER  ||  SVB    D.  CAROLO    REFER/ ||  tis 

Infulis,  fimulatcp  incolarum  ||  moribus,  R. 

Petri  Marty/ 1|  ris,  Enchiridion,  Domi/||nse 

Margaritas,  Diui  ||  Max.  Caef.  filiae  ||  dicatum. 

f  BASILEAE,  ANNO  ||  M.D.XXL* 

Verso  of  the  title-page  : 
MAGNIFICO  EQVI  ||  TI  IONNI   CATENAEO  SALE- 

DIENSI  EXBEI  ||  naco,  diui  quonda  Maxi- 
miliani  Caef.  Augufti,  nunc  diuae  Mar- 
ga  ||  ritae  Auguftae  filiae  medico  clariilimo  || 
Adam  Petri  deditiffimus.  || 

*  Delia  Lcttcratura  Vcncziana,  Lib.  viu,  concerning  the  customs  of  their  inhabit- 
page  315,  note  269.  ants.      Dedicated   to    Lady   Margaret    [of 

*  Anglic e  :  An  abridgement  concerning  Flanders],  daughter  of  the  Empress  Maxi- 
the  islands  recently  discovered  under  the  milian  [and  aunt  of  Charles   V].     Basle, 
reign  of  the   Emperor  Charles;  and  also  1521. 


1  88  Bibliotheca    Americana. 


I  C2  I.         ***  4to>  t't^e  one  leaf  ~t~  twenty-one  leaves;  twenty-eight  lines  in 
a  full  page  ;  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Judging  from  the  following  lines  (on  the  second  leaf): 

Ex  MEARUM  decadu  libellis  in  uulgus 
emiffis  colligere  licet,  Pater  fandie/  fugi- 
tiuos  quofdam  ad  uicina  Darienfis  appulfos 
noftrorum  libellos  admirantes  dixiffe  .... 

the  present  is  only  an  extract  from  the  fourth  Decade, 
made  by  Peter  Martyr  himself;  and  not,  as  it  is  an 
nounced  in  a  well-known  catalogue1,  "  a  rare  edition, 
scarcely  known  to  bibliographers,  which  is  neither  con 
tained  in  the  Decades  of  the  same  author,  nor  an  extract 
from  them,  but  is  the  very  interesting  and  curious  Ori 
ginal  Account  of  the  Discovery  of  those  isles." 

This  extract  is  inserted  in  all  the  editions  of  the 
Novus  Orbis1,  and  added  to  the  Antwerp  reprint  of 
Brocard's  Descriptio  Terr<e  Sanct<£*.  It  was  published  in 
French  by  Simon  deColines4,  and  in  German  by  Honiger5 
von  Konigshofen.  We  find  many  references  to  the 
reprints  of  this  abstract  in  the  early  writers  on  Mexico. 
It  mentions  the  Grijalva  expedition,  and,  we  believe, 
the  first  voyages  to  Darien. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annalti  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vr,  page  227. 

MAZZUCHELLI,  Gil  Scrittori  <TItalia,  Vol.  i,  Part  11,  page  776. 

NICERON,  Memoires,  Vol.  xxin,  page  212. 

TERNAUX,  Bibliotheque  Amerkainc,  No.  24. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  x,  No.  1706. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  II,  No.  33. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  294. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  130. 


1  Bohn's,  Lond.,  1847,  p.  455.  *  Paris,  1532  (infra}. 

9  Edit,  of  Basle,  1532,  pp.  570-584;  of  6  apud  Der  Neiven  Wcldt  und  In- 

1555^  p.  497,  tq.  dianiichen  Nidcrgangischcn  Konigreichs  ; 

'  1536,  and  not  1537,  as  is  stated  Basil,  3  vols.  fol.,  1582-83,  Vol.  n. 

supra,  p.  125.  (Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Providence.)  ' 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  189 

III.    MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

S<$nfitt)t  I*  Umnitmw  nw- 
to  ft  na  ii  tti0att<m0  :  /at-  n 

ctes  par  IBmeric  ire  befpuce  jFlorentimHies  gags 
et  ides  nouuellemet  trouuejiau  pauat  llano?  icog^ 
neuf  ftant  en  letijiope  q[  arratieiea||lici)utir  aultres 
plufieurs  regions  eftranges  ||  Eranflate  t»e  gtalte 
en  langue  francogfe  par  1  1  matfjurtn  Iru  retrouer 
licecte  es  loss  XX1. 

Then  vignette  representing  a  circle,  with   the  constellations. 
In  fine  : 

C  ^Tg  fintft  ie  liure  intitule  le  nouueau  motre  r 
nauigation  ||  tre  IBmertc  ire  beipuce  treg  nauigatios 
faictes  p  le  rog  tre  por  ||  tugal  es  pass  tres  mores  et 
aultres  regions  et  triuers  pagslljmprime  a 
par  ^ijelippe  le  iBtoir.  || 


*J)S*  Sm.  410  for  size,  signatures  a  i,  a  ii  a  iii  +  one  blank,  then 
b  i,  b  ii,  &c.  Title  one  leaf  -j-  three  unnumbered  leaves  + 
eighty-eight  numbered  leaves.  Text  in  Gothic. 

(Harvard  College  Library.) 

Philip  le  Noir  was  the  son  of  Michael  Le  Noir,  who 
printed  at  Paris  as  early  as  1489.  He  succeeded  his 
father  in  1514,  and  we  find  his  name  among  the  twenty- 
four  printers  who  exercised  their  art  in  Paris  under  the 
enlightened  rule  of  Francis  I,  in  1521*.  We  place  this 


1  "  Ces  chiffres  qu'on  trouve  tres-sou-  cette  marque  au  lieu  d'imprimer  un  re- 
vent,  sur  le  titre,  et  d'autres  fois  a  la  fin  gistre."  DE  BURE,  apud  No.  4543  of 
du  volume,  indiquent  le  nombre  des  sig-  Catal.  La  Valliere. 

natures  qui  composent  la  totalite  de  1'ou-          a  DIDOT,  art.    Typographic,  in   Encyclo- 

vrage    ....    Les   imprimeurs  mettaient  fedie  Modcrne,  Vol.  26,  p.  754. 


\ 


Bibtiotheca   Americana. 

1521.*   edition    under    the    latter  date,   solely  in  deference  to 

Brunet's  remark  that  "  d'apres  le  nom  du  libraire,  elle 

ne  peut  etre  anterieure  a  1'annee  1521." 
The  passage,  Chapt.  cvn,  f.  LXVIII  : 

"  . .  . .  latrmiral  et  frm  frere  lefquelg  furet  mte 
es  fer8  r  enuoge?  a  la  bolte  Hefpatgne  et  ireg  ce 
quilj  furet  acurtres  le  i&os  et  la  rogne  trefpaigne 
les  enuogerent  treliurer  et  leg  firent  benir  a  leur 
court  boulontairement  en  laquelle  au  prefent  iour 
ilg  fe  trouuetenf 

might  lead  to  the  belief  that  the  work  was  written  as 
early  as  1506,  but  for  two  similar  assertions  which  we 
find  in  the  Itinerarium  (ch.  cviii.)  and  the  Unbekanthe 
Landte,  (ch.  108),  both  of  which  were  printed  as  late  as 
1508.  We  even  read  it  in  the  Novus  Orbis  of  1532  ! 

Direct  references  :  f  CAMUS,  Memoires  sur  de  Bry,  page  346. 
-|  Livres  Curieux,  No.  izo. 
(  BRUNET,  Vol.  v,  col.  1160. 


1^22.      112.     POMP.  MELA-VADIAN.—  Within  a  wide  ornamented  border  : 
fr  POMPONII     ME  ||  LAE  DE  ORBIS  SITV 

LIBRI  TRES.  ACCVRATIS  ||  iime  emendati,  una 
cu  Commetariis  loachimi  ||  Vadiani  Helu- 
etii  caftigatioribus,  &  multis  ||  in  locis  auc- 
toribus  factis :  id  quod  cadi  ||  dus  ledior 
orbiter,  &  in  tranfcurfu  ||  facile  depre- 

*  So  much  stress  has  been  placed  by  tury,  that  we  must  notice,  at  least  in  a 
YOCLIETTA  (Historic  Gcnucnsium  libri  xn;  note,  the  earliest  authority  for  the  state- 
Genoa,  fol.,  1585,  fol.  no,  republished  in  ment.  It  is  PETER  D'ABANO,  Conciliator 
GR^VIUS  Thesaurus  antiq.  Ital.  Vol.  l)  different.  pAilosopAor.;  Mantua,  fol.,  1492; 
on  the  unfortunate  voyage  of  Doria  and  many  editions  (in  that  of  Venice,  fol., 
Vivaldi,  the  two  Genoese  navigators  who  1521,  the  statement  is  on  fol.  97).  CA- 
are  supposed  to  have  anticipated  Colum-  SONI,  Annales ;  Genoa,  fol.,  1708,  p.  a8, 
bus  toward  the  end  of  the  thirteenth  cen-  should  also  be  consulted. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  191 

hendet.  ||  ADIECTA  funt  praeterea  loca  ali-  1522, 
quot  ex  VADIANI  com||mentarijs  fummatim 
repetita,  &  obiter  explicata  :  in  quibus  || 
aeftimandis  cenfendifcp  dodriffimo  uiro 
loanni  CAMERTI  ||  ordinis  Minorum  Theo- 
logo,  cum  loachimo  VADIANO  ||  non  ad- 
rnodum  conuenit.  ||  RVRSVM,  Epiftola  Vadi- 
ani,  ab  eo  pene  adulefcente  ad  Ru  ||  dolph- 
um  Agricolam  iuniorem  fcripta,  non  in- 
digna  le£tu,  ||  nee  inutilis  ad  ea  capienda, 
quas  aliubi  in  Commentary  s  fuis  libare 
magis,  quam  longius  explicare  uoluit.  || 

Cantem  est  priuilegio,  ne  alibi  hoc  opus  proximo  trienno  imprimatur. 

BASILEAE,    ANNO. 
M.D.XXII. 

Colophon  : 
BASILEAE,    APVD    ANDREAM    CRATAN   ||    DRVM, 

MENSE  IANVARIO,  ANNO  ||  M.D.XXII. 

*..,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf"-}-  nineteen  preliminary  leaves  unnum 
bered  -j-  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  numbered  pages  -f-  one 
unnumbered  leaf  with  verso  blank  +  another  title  +  forty- 
one  leaves  -f-  one  leaf  with  recto  blank,  and  verso  containing 
the  printer's  mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"Seconde  edition  de  Vadianus  [the  first  being  dated  1518]  fort- 
changee  et  corrigee  sur  des  MSS.,  le  commentaire  contient  beaucoup 
de  notices  utiles,  mais  une  foule  de  choses  bizarres,  p.  ex.  il  raconte, 
note  a  L.III,  ch.  3.  qu'une  salade  de  harengs  est  un  mets  for  delicat 
et  salubre." 


We  must  warn  our  readers  that  the  above  is  not  the 
only  obnoxious  passage  in  the  present  work.    The  Index 


1    Tresor,  Vol.  v,  p.  401. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  522.  Libr.  Prohib.  Expurg.  &?  Damn*  gives  a  long  list,  in  the 
.  interesting  passage,  which  begins  on  page  557,  in  these 
words :  "  Post  adhibitam  notam  Auctoris  damnati," 
and  ends  with  "  —  In  tit.  Epist.  loach.  Vadiani  ad 
Rudolphum  Agricola,  quae  incipit,  Grata  admodum  iftte 
gratis p,  dele,  a  C<efare  laureatus" 

This  edition  should  contain  the  map  described  supra 
No.  108,  and  which  is  thus  described  by  Muller4  : 

"  America  appears  on  it  as  a  narrow  strip  of  land  extending  from 
55th  degree  of  southern  latitude  to  about  65°  N.  A  broad  channel 
traverses  the  isthmus  of  Panama.  More  remarkable  still  is  the  out 
line  of  Greenland,  which  bears  here  the  same  name  as  on  the  cele 
brated  Zeni4  chart,  namely  Engronelant.  The  configuration 
also  of  the  country  is  so  much  alike  in  both,  that  they  must  have 
proceeded  from  the  same  source." 

See  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf  following  F-f4,  the  passage  : 

"  Ex  recentiorum  autem  inquifitione,  fl 
Americam  a  Vefpuccio  repertam,  &  earn 
Eoae  terrae  partem,  quae  terrae  a  Ptolemaeo 
cognitae  adied:a  eft,  ad  longitudinis  habi- 
tatae  rationem  referimus,  longe  ultra  hern- 
isphserium  habitari  terra  coftat :  Imo  non 
ufcpadeo  imenfurn  pelagus  intereffe  inter 
extimum  ab  America  occides  &  oriens 
Ptol.  poftremum,  quin  fere  toto  globi  am- 

3  Madrid,  folio,  1667.  TICOLARE   DI  ||  tutte  le  dette  pane  di  Tra- 

3  Catalogue;  Berlin,  1861,  No.  86.  montana  da  lor  scoperte.  ||  CON  GRATIA,   ET 

4  In  DE  I  COMMENTARII   DEL  ||     PRJVILEGIO.  || 

yiaggio  in  Persia  di  M.  Caterino    Zeno  il          VERI  [iuoodcut~\  TAS.  || 
K.  ||  &    delle   guerre   fatte    nelf    Imperio          ^   IN  VENETIA  ||  Per  Francesco  Marco- 

Pcrsiano,  \\  dal  tempo    di    Fssuncassano    in  lint.  M  D  LVIII. 
qua.  ||  LIBRI    DVE.  ||  ET    DELLO    SCO-         %*  jzmo,  58  namb.  ff. 
PRIMENTO  ||  deir  hole  Frislanda,  Es-  (Private  Libr.,  Brooklyn.) 

landa,    Engrouclanda,    Esto  ||  ti/anda,    &          See  also  concerning  the  two  Zenis,  their 

Icaria,  fatto  sotto  il  Polo  Artico,  da  ||  due  voyages    and     maps,    ZURLA,    Di    Marco 

fratelli  zeni,  M.  Nicolo  il  K.  e  M.   /Into-  Polo   a    degli  altri   i/iaggiatori  Pcncziani  ; 

nio.  ||  LIBRO  VNO.  ||  CON   VN    DiSEGNO   PAR-  Venice,  4to,  1818,  Vol.  II,  pp.  7-94. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  \  93 

bitu  terra  habitationis  frequentia  culta  fit,   *522< 
quod  ex  Geographies  defcriptionis  globulo  " 
perpulchre  dinofci  poteft." 

Direct  references:  f  FABRICIUS,    Bibliotheca   Latina  (ed.    1721);    Lib.   II,  c.  8,  Vol.   I, 

page  346. 

I    HUMBOLDT,  Introduction  to  GHILLANY'S  BcAaim,  page  8. 
Bibliotheca    Thottiana,  Vol.  v,  page  103. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana^  —  . 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.   13619. 

II»     ANONYMOUS—  Within  a  wide  ornamented  border  : 


Smnffortonuj 


8enw||d)tifo  durd)  be  $tce  Wet)  in  9lea- 
fram  ^larpreten  §et^ogin  in  ^ur  ||  pndi  jit 
Qefdjribett.* 

Then  a  very  unseemly  portrait  of  the  Emperor. 

On  verso  of"  the  title,  a  complicated  coat-of-arms,  repeated  on 
the  verso  of  the  last  leaf,  with  this  inscription  on  a  scroll  : 

AH.  1517, 

*!(t*  Sin.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  title  one  leaf-j-  three   unnumbered 
leaves  ;   many  woodcuts  ;   no  water-mark. 

The  conquest  of  the  city  of  Mexico  by  Cortes  is 
slightly  alluded  to  on  verso  of  Aiij,  in  these  words  : 

"  Wit  toeit  no  der  fclbcn  infcl  Ijabcn  ||  ft)  crobcrt  cin 
ftat  genant  leuuftitaniiu  Dcrcu  ge^alt  find  f  adjoin  tnu- 
[cut  |atd  ftattcu  mit  ci  ||  ucr  rjittcu  riudt^mauvcu  inge- 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


*  Anglice:  Translation  from  the  Spanish  j-  Anglice  :  Not  far  from  the  same  island 

'into  French  ;  addressed  by  the  Viceroy  of  they  have  conquered  a  city  called  Tenus- 

Naples    to    Margaret,     Duchess    of    Bur-  titan,  wherein  sixty  thousand  hearths  have 

gundy.  been  counted,  within  a  good  inclosure. 


1 94  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

C  2  2.  114..     VARTHEMA-DIA&—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

U iittftati0  de  iEutoico  fle  f  at  n 

l!)ema  itfolognefe  ne  io  3Bgi)ptoitte  la  S>u||rtai 
ne  la  EraMa  fcefetta  r  feltceme  la  $er  ||  flame  la 
Jntita  i  me  la  IBtljiopta.  Ea  fetre  ||  el  biuere  r  cafe 
tumi  t»e  le  prefate  prouincte.  II  3Bt  al  prefente 
agiontout  alcljune  Jfole  no  1 1|  uamente  IRttrouatte.  II 

Then  fine  vignette  representing  a  man  bent  on  a  globe. 
Colophon  : 

C  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  li  heredi  de 
Georgio  di  ||  Rufconi  Nellanno  della  in- 
carnatione  del  no  ||  ftro  fignor  lefu  Chrifto. 
M.D.XXII.  adi||XVII.  de  Setembrio.  Reg- 
nado  lo  ||  inclito  Principe  Antonio  ||  Gri- 
mano.  II 


*^*  Sm.   8vo  ;   title  one  leaf -j-  one  hundred  and  one  unnumbered 
leaves,  printed  in  two  columns,  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  Itinerary  of  Grijalva  commences  on  the  verso  of 
signature  M.  It  is  this  edition  which  supplied  the  text 
for  Munoz',  Navarrete's  and  Prescott's  transcripts, 
made  from  the  copy  in  the  Columbian  library  at  Seville, 
once  the  property  of  Fernando  Columbus,  and  then 
supposed  to  be  the  only  copy  in  existence.  The  text, 
together  with  a  translation  into  Spanish,  have  been  pub 
lished  by  Senor  Icazbalceta1. 


1  In    Colcccion  de  Documcntoi  ineditos  for     has  been  supplied  with  different  readings, 
la    Historia    de    Mexico,  Vol.    I,    p.    307,     copied  from  an  earlier  edition,  and  which  ' 
tq.     The    learned    Mexican    bibliographer      will  probably  appear  in  his  second  volume. 


Bibliotheca    Americana. 

ANONYMOUS— Recto  of the  first  leaf: 


195 


196  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

I  C22.         *#*  4to>   s*ae  anno  aui  I°co>   eight  leaves,   text    in    Gothic    type. 
Water-mark,  a  large  P. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


"  Containing  an  abridged  account  of  the  voyages  of  Columbus, 
and  of  the  conquest  of  Mexico  down  to  the  year  1522,  was  printed, 
it  is  supposed,  at  Augsburg  by  Sigmund  Grimm,  about  1522." 

(N.  T.Syllacio1.) 

"  Mr.  Panizzi's  MS.  account  of  the  book  inserted  in  the  volume 
[Grenville  copy]  is  very  interesting :  he  thinks  Ternaux  had  not 
seen  it,  because  he  states  that  the  account  extends  only  to  1519* 
whereas  it  extends  to  1522,  in  which  year  it  was  probably  printed. 
At  the  end  is  the  device  of  Augsburg,  a  pine  cone,  and  no  doubt  it 
was  printed  there." 

( Bibliotheca  Grcnvil'iana*.) 

There  is  a  full  account  of  Sigmund  Grimm  in  Zapf's 
Augsburgs  Buchdruckergeschichte* j  and  Panzer4  gives  the 
list  of  all  the  works  known  to  have  been  printed 
by  this  "  Gelehrter  und  Doctor  der  Arzneygelehrsam- 
keit"  from  1517  to  1524  the  year  in  which  Zapf  sup 
poses  him  to  have  died,  but  in  neither  work  do  we 
find  a  reference  to  the  book  before  us.  We  infer  that 
it  is  ascribed  to  Grimm  on  account  of  a  supposed 
resemblance  in  the  type. 

Direct  references :  (  TERNAUX,  No.  22. 

I  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  10,  No.  32. 

I  I  6.     ANONYMOUS—  Within  a  border  : 

€  ©f  tfje  netoe  laires  attfr  of  g*  people  ||  (ountre 
tg  tfje  meffetiQers  of  tfje  Itgn  ||  ge  of  portggale 
nametr  fEmanuel.  ||  <£f  tije  .x.  trguerg  nacptts  ti^U 
tenetr.  ||  ©f  pope  Joijn  an*  f)te  lante  antr  of  tfje 
eofteig  ^egess  antr  toonfcers  molo  ||  trgesi  tfjat  in  tfjat 
iantre  is.  II 


*  Anglice :    Pleasant    new    tidings,    re-  l  Appendix,    p.    LVII,   from    which    we 

cently  come   from  India  to   His   Imperial  borrow  the  preceding  woodcut. 

Majesty.     Very   beautiful   concerning  the  a  Part  II,  p    125. 

new  islands  and  their  customs,  very  amus-  8  Vol.  i,  p.  XLIV. 

ing  to  read.  *  Annala  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  xi,  p.  205. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  197 

Then  woodcut  representing  a  man  decked  with  feathers,  standing      J  ^22. 
with  a  spear  in  one  hand  and  an  arrow  in  the  other,  a  woman  is  seated  , 
nursing  a   child,   whilst   from   a  tree  hang   the   head  and   legs   of  a 
man. 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  four  woodcuts,  viz. :  an  elephant,  a 
griffin  carrying  off  a  man,  a  phoenix  rising  from  the  flames,  and  a 
man  with  one  eye  in  the  middle  of  his  forehead. 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf  after  the  title  : 

f^ere  afore  tgmes  in  tfje  gere  of  our  Horfce  goto. 
W.ccc.e.xcbi.  r  fo  be  toiti)  ff)gPP?s  of  Hatteboene 
{Lisbon}  faglefc  oute  of  $<tttgnsale  tijroug!)  ti)e 
eomantremet  of  tije  Itgnge  IBmanuel  g>0t)aue  toe 
fjatr  our  bgagei  jFor  bg  fortune  glanfces  ouer  tjje 
great  fee  toitf)  great  djarge  anfo  danger  fo  ijaue  toe 
at  tlje  iafte  fountre  oon  [?]  lorfcfljgp  toijere  toe 
fagleir  beii.  ix.  e.  mgles  tg  tlje  eoofte  of  S^lantreg 
tijere  toe  at  g«  lafte  toent  a  lantre  but  tijat  lafce  iss 
not  notoe  fenotoe  for  tijere  ijaue  no  mafterss  torgten 
thereof  nor  it  Itnotoetije  antr  it  \#  nantetr  Ermentea 
[>v]itf)ere  toe  fatoe  meng  tootrersi  of  teiftes  antr 
fotoles  s  be  Jaue  neuer  feen  before  itlje  people  of 
tijte  lantre  ijaue  no  fcpnge  nor  lortre  nor  tijegr 
gotr  13ut  all  tfjinges  is  eotnune  i  tf)ig  people  goeti) 
all  naltetr  H3ut  tfje  men  anlr  toomen  ijaue  on  tljegr 
fjeetr  necfeeiErmesi^neesiantr  fete  all  toid)  fetrerss 
Bontien  for  tijere  betotgnes  r  fagreneis.  5Cf)efe  folfee 
Iguen  Igfee  beftes  tottijout  ang  refonablenes  antr  tfje 
bgmen  be  alio  as  eomon.  ^ntr  tfje  men  ijati)  con= 
uerfacjon  toitij  tije  togmemtoijo  tijat  tijeg  ben  or 
toijo  tijeg  fpft  mete  i  is  ff)e  i)is  fgftenijis  motien 
f)is  traugijter  i  or  ang  otfjer  kgretj.  Entr  tije  togmen 
be  berg  1)oote  anfc  trgfpofeti  to  lecfjertines.  Enti  tijeg 


Bibliotheca    Americana. 

1522.  ete  alfo  on  another  &ije  man  etetJje  J)is  togfeijis 
efjgltrene  i  as  toe  alfo  ijaue  feen  ant  tfjeg  fjange  alfo 
tfje  totges  or  perfons  fleefefje  in  tije  fmofce  as  men 
to  toitf)  bs  ftognes  fleffje,  &nt  tijat  lante  is  rggijt 
full  of  folfceifor  tfjeg  Igue  comonlg  .iii.  c.  gere  r 
more  as  in  fglteneffe  tijeg  tige  notitijeg  take  muc^ 
fgttije  for  tfteg  ean  goen  bntrer  tlje  toater  antr  feclje 
fo  tije  fgfeftes  out  of  tfte  toater.  r  tjeg  toerre  alfo 
bpon  a  notfjenfor  tfte  ottre  men  tr^nge  tije  gonge 
men  tfjertoitijat  tijeg  gather  a  great  company  tftere^ 
to  of  totoe  partges  i  antr  eometje  on  agene  tije  otfjer 
to  tfje  feltre  of  tategllir  flee  on  tfje  otjjer  toit^  great 
ijepes.  Entr  fjotoe  ijolte  t^e  fgltreitfteg  talte  tje 
ot^er  prgfoners  ant  tjeg  trgnge  tijem  to  fceti)  ant 
ete  tijemiant  as  ti)e  treet  is  eten  tijen  fleg  ti)eg  t!je 
refti^nt  tfteg  teen  tfjan  eten  alfo  i  or  otjjertogle 
Igue  tfjeg  longer  for  tfjeg  ijaue  eoftelg  fpgces  r 
rotes  i  toftere  tijeg  tijem  felfe  recouer  toitf)  i  ant  ijele 
tftem  as  tfteg  te  fefce. 

The  work  then  treats"  of  the  black  Mores,  of  the  lande  of  Allago, 
Arabia,  ofgreaf  Indyen,  of  Guts  chin  that  Kyngedome,  of  the  x  dyuerce 
cristened  nations  ;  each  subject  preceded  by  an  appropriate  woodcut. 
After  the  letter  of  Pope  John,  dated  "  Written  in  oure  holy  pallays  in 
the  byrtb  of  my  selfe  .v.  bddred  and  seuen ;"  we  find  the  following 
colophon  : 

ISmprentet  tg  me  Jofjft  of  Heftorotoe: 

with  a  woodcut  representing  a  crown  surmounting  the  escutcheon, 
three  lions  quartered  with  three  fleurs-de-lys.  On  the  last  page  is  a 
woodcut  representing  Justice  crowned,  blindfolded,  holding  a  sceptre 
and  a  wheel,  underneath  which  an  unintelligible  line  in  Greek. 

*q*  410,    sine   anno   aut    loco,     twenty-four    unnumbered    leaves, 
thirty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(British  Museum.) 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  199 

Thus  far,  the  present  is  the  first  book  in  the  English 
language  containing  a  notice  of  America  (called  therein 
Armenica).  Herbert1  is  of  opinion  that  from  mention 
ing  Emanuel,  King  of  Portugal,  and  exclaiming  against 
Luther,  this  work  may  have  been  printed  "  about  1521 
or  1522,"  when  King  Emanuel  died,  and  Luther  was 
burnt  in  effigy.  As  to  the  printer,  John  of  Does- 
borough  or  Jan  van  Doesborch2,  he  printed  at  Antwerp, 
perhaps  as  early  as  1502',  but  as  late  as  1525*. 

Direct  references:  (  '  HERBERT,  Typographical  Antiquities,  Vol.  m,  page  1533. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  pag^e   24. 
LOWNDES,  Manual,  Part  v.  page  1306. 


117.     PTOLEMT-FRISIUS— Within  an  ornamented  border : 

CLAVDII  PTOLEM^I  ||  ALEXANDRIA 
Mathematicoi*:  principis/  opus  Geographic^  || 
nouiter  caftigatu  &  emaculatu  additioibus. 
raris  et  iuuifis.  necnon  ||  cu  tabularum 
in  dorfo  iucunda  explanatione.  Regiftro 
quoqj  totius  ||  operis.  tarn  Geographico.  qj 
etia  hiftoriali.  facillimu  introitu  prebeti.  || 

ORDO  CONTENTO 

RVM    IN     HOC    LIBRO    TOTALI. 

OCTO  libri  Geographic^  ipfius  Autoris  ad 
antiquitate  fuam  in-  ||  tegri  &  fmevlla  cor- 
ruptioe.  cum  collatione  diclionu  grecaru 

3  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  v,  p.  Manual,  Vol.  I,  p.  42,  and  DIBDIN,  Library 

468,  Vol.  xi,  p.  aoi.  Companion,  p.  174  (ed.  1824). 

a  See  the  first  edition  of  The  names  of  the  4  PANZER,  Annales  Typographic!,  Vol. 

Baylifs,  Gustos  Mayers  and  Sherefs  (Rich-  xi,  p.  255,  and  Bibliophile  Se/ge,  Vol.  v, 

ard  Arnold's  Chronicles);  cf.  LOWNDES,  p/212. 


2oo  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

1522.  e  regioe  ||  ad  latinas.  certiffima  graduu  cal- 
—  culatioe  examinati.  || 

REGISTRVM  Item  alphabeticu  omniu  re- 
gionu.  prefe6turaru  ||  ciuitatu.  Fluuio.  ma- 
riu.  lacuu.  portuu  Silua^.  oppido^.  villa^. 
gen  ||  tiu  &  hiftoriaru  iingula  certiffimo  in- 
dice  monftrans. 

POST  hoc  Sequutur  tabule.  qua#  nuero. 
xxvij.  erut.  Prima  fez  Generale  orbis  de- 
fcriptione  tradens  iuxta  mente  Ptolem^i. 
Europ^  ||  poft  hie  tabule.  &.  Aphrice^  .  iiij. 
afie.  xii.  et  vna  corpors  fperici  inplao  || 

HAS  fuccedut  neoterico^  perluftratioes.  ea 
que  abandiqs.  emitia  ||  xx.  tabulis  ad  im- 
plentes.  Et  in  haru  omnium,  ta  vetuftio^ 
eg  recen-  ||  tio^  tergis  expoiitoes  vni  lateri. 
alteri  vero  lucubratioes  incudiffime  ||  rituu. 
eafda  plagas  habitantiu  (cu  varijs  mirabilib9 
mudi)  incubut.  || 

TANDEM  breuis  fub  oritur  dodrina.  igno- 
ratibus  viam  pr^  ||  bens  fru&u  aufcultandi 
Geographicu/  Que  hue  vfqj  multis  in-  || 
cognita/  &  fepulta  de  lituit  Gaudeat  igit 
Le6tor  optimus.  || 

HEC  bona  mente  Lauretius  Phrifius  artis 
Appolline^  doctor  x  ||  mathematical  artium 
dientulus.  in  lucem  iuffit  prodire.  ||  Agam- 
memnonis  puteoli  plurimu  delicati :  || 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  201 

Colophon:  *522< 

Joannes  Grieninger  ciuis  Argentoraten  || 

opera  et  expenfis  proprijs  id  opus  infigne. 
ereis  ||  notulis  excepit,  Laudabilicp  fine  per 
fecit  xii.  die  ||  Marcij  Anno.  M.D.XXII.  || 

*Jf;*  Large  folio,  title  one  leaf-f-  eighty-five  unnumbered  leaves  -f- 
one  leaf  for  spbera  in  piano  -\-  forty-nine  maps,  with  descrip 
tions  on  the  reverse.  Many  well-executed  woodcuts. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Library.) 

This  Ptolemy  derives  its  importance  from  the  preface  by  Thomas 
Aucuparius,  who  praises  Vespuccius  extravagantly,  but  more  espe 
cially  from  the  following  maps  : 

ORBIS  .  TYPVS  .  VNIVERSALIS  . 
IVXTA  .  HYDROGRAPHORVM  . 
TRADITIONEM  .  EXACTISSIME  . 
DEPICTA  .  1522  .  L  .  F  .  [Laurent  Fri 
ll  us] 

This  exhibits  a  kind  of  promontory  advancing  from  the  border  on 
the  left  of  the  reader,  which  bears  the  names  of  JDatOia? 
baleS,  CapUt.  S.  CrU.,   and  the  long-sought  word 

fra.  The  islands  of  Ysabella  and  Spagnola  are  also 
in  sight. 

It  is  followed  by  another  map  (thirtieth),  bearing  the  following 
inscription  on  a  scroll : 

E.  TABV-LAITER    RElNOVAllFl 

D  I  Vv    1L   and  exhibiting  only  the  eastern  shore  of  this  continent, 

with  the  word  FARIAS  between  45°-5o°,  whilst  below  the  equi 
noctial  line  we  read  the  usual  inscription : 

i^ec  terra  ann  attiacenttt?  infulte  inuenta  eft  p 
(Eriftoferum  ||  <£olumtum  tanuenfem  ex  tnatrtrato 

OTafteile.  || 

26 


2O2  Eibliotheca   Americana. 

I  C22.         Then,  close  to  a  spirited  woodcut  representing  cannibals  feeding 
on  human  flesh  :  TERRA  |j  NOVA. 

This  map  does  not  exhibit  the  word  "  America"  anywhere. 

"  Extat  in  hac  editione  perrara  ad  tertiam  Africae  mappam  iam 
famosus  iste  de  Palaestina  locus,  qui  Serveto  postea  tanquam  atrox 
crimen  imputabatur.  Cf.  Mosheimii  Anderweitiger  Vers.  einer  Ket- 
zergeschichte,  p.  260.  sqq."  (PANZER*.) 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remind  the  reader  that  this 
victim  of  Calvin's  intolerance  and  cruelty  was  only 
thirteen  years  of  age,  and  yet  at  school  in  Spain,  when 
the  above-mentioned  passage  respecting  Palestine,  and 
which  was  laid  to  the  charge  of  the  unfortunate  Servetus 
as  a  heinous  crime,  was  first  published. 

Direct  references:  C  FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Graca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 
-|    RAIDEL,  Comment.  critico-litt.  de  Ptolem.,  page  58. 
j    HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.   IV,  page  119. 
NAPJONE,  Del  Primo  Scofritore,  page  87. 
LELEWEL,  Geographic  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  n,  page  208. 
HOFFMAN,  Lexicon  Bibliogr.,  Vol.  in,  page  319. 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  18229. 

IIO.     CORTES  (FERNANDO)—  Under   a    large    woodcut  repre 
senting  the  Emperor  Charles  V  seated  on  the  throne  : 


to  Man* 
a  (k  3*  majeflflfr  tol  ejw- 


tror  n!o  Mot  par  el  capita  general  fcela  nueua 
fpana:  llamatro  fernatro  corlltes.  iEnla  ql 
relaeto  fllas  tierras  g  proulcia^  fin  cueto  q[ 
cutierto  ||  nueuamete  enel  gucata  trel  ano  t»e.  xix.  a 
efta  pte:  g  f)a  fotnetitro  ala  corona  II  teal  tre  fu.  S-  W- 
iEn  efpecial  ija^e  relacio  tre  bna  gratriffima  proutcia 
mug  II  rtca  llamatra  Otulua  :  g  tre  gratres  ctutratreg  g 
tre  marautllofos  etrt-  1|  ficios  :  g  tre  s^tres  tratos  g 


Annal.  Typogr.,  Vol.  VI,  p.  98,  describes  a  copy  with  only  forty-seven  maps. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  203 

IBntre  las  cjies  ag  bna  mas  marauillofa  || 
g  rica  (jtotras  llamatra  £imu:tita :  5  efta  por  mar&= 
billola  arte  etrificatrafo  ||  tre  bna  gratre  laguna.  trela 
5i  ciutratr  g  prowcia  es  teg  bn  gratritftmo  lenor  || 
llamatro  Jftuteep  uma :  trotre  le  acaeciewi  ai  capita  g 
alos  efpanoles  efpata- 1|  fas  cofas  tre  ogr.  Cuenta 
largamete  trel  gratnifftmo  feilorio  trel  titdjo  Jftu- 1| 
tee^uma  g  tre  fus  rttoiei  g  cerimonias.  g  ire  como 
fe  ftrue.  || 

Colophon  : 

€  Ha  prefente  carta  tre  telacion  fue  tmpreffa 
enla  mug  nofcle  r  mug  leal  ciutratr  tre  S>e-  |  uilla : 


por  Jacoto  croterger  aleman. 
Mo  tre  M.  tr.  r. 


biij.  trias  tre 


Small  folio  for  size  (signatures  a,  b,  c,  in  eights,  d,  in  four)  ; 
twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves  ;  with  text  commencing  on 
the  verso  of  the  title-page. 


(A.) 


(Private  Library,  Providence.) 


The  reader  may  consult  concerning  Hernando  Cortes, 
his  life,  his  exploits,  and  the  immediate  results  of  the 
conquest  of  Mexico,  the  works  of  Peter  Martyr1,  Ber- 


*  Anglice  :  Epistolary  relation  sent  to 
His  Sacred  Majesty  the  Emperor,  our  Lord, 
by  the  Captain-General  of  New  Spain, 
called  Fernando  Cortes,  wherein  is  an  ac 
count  of  the  lands  and  provinces  innumer 
able,  newly  discovered  in  Yucatan,  from 
the  year  xix  to  the  present  j  and  which  he 
subjected  to  the  Royal  Crown  of  his  Sacred 
Majesty.  There  is  an  especial  mention 
of  a  very  extensive  and  rich  province, 
called  Culva  ;  and  of  large  cities  and 
marvelous  edifices,  and  of  great  trade  and 
wealth,  among  which  there  is  one  richer 
and  more  wonderful  than  all,  called  Tim- 
ixtitan,  which,  with  astonishing  skill,  is 


built  on  a  large  lake,  of  which  city  and 
province  the  king  is  a  great  lord,  called 
Muttefuma,  where  happened  to  the  Cap 
tain  and  Spaniards  things  astounding  to 
hear.  With  a  full  account  of  the  great 
estate  of  the  said  Mutee^uma,  of  his  rites 
and  ceremonies,  and  how  he  is  attended. 

The  present  Epistolary  Relation  was 
printed  in  the  very  noble  and  loyal  city  of 
Seville,  by  Jacob  Cromberger,  a  German, 
November  8th,  1522. 

1  De  Orbc  Nouo  Petri  Martyris  ab 
Anglcria  ;  Alcala,  fol.,  1530,  Decades  11, 
iv  and  v  ;  De  Jnsu/ii  nuper  refertis  liter, 
in  the  No-vus  Orbit  of  Basle,  1532,  pp. 


1522, 


204 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


[  522.  nardino  de  Sahagun2,  Andres  de  Tapia3,  Lucius  Ma- 
-  rineo4,  Gonzales  Oviedo5,  Juan  Gines  de  Sepulveda6, 
Bartholomew  de  Las  Casas7,  Lopez  de  Gomara8,  Garcia 
del  Palacio9,  Josef  de  Acosta10,  Geronimo  Ramirez", 
Henrico  Martinez12,  Antonio  de  Herrera1',  Juan  de 
Torquemada'4,  Antonio  de  Remesal15,  Blasco  de  Lanu- 


570-584;  Opus  cpistolarum  ;  Amsterdam, 
fol.,  1670;  Letters  No.  650,  715,  717, 
766,  770,  780,  814. 

a  Historia  de  la  conquhta  de  Mexico ; 
Mexico,  410,  1829.  (Book  xii  of  the 
Historia  General,  printed  separately.) 

3  Relacion    hecha  sobre   la    conquhta    de 
Mexico.    (An  eye-witness  and  participant. 
It  is  to  be  published  in  Vol.  n  of  Senor 
Icazbalceta's  Coleccion.) 

4  De    las  cosas    memorable!  de  Espana ; 
Alcala,  fol.,  1530. 

6  Historia  General  y  Natural  de  las  In- 
dias  ;    Madrid,     4    vols.,    fol.,    1851-55 
(which  is  the  only  edition  containing  Lib. 
xxxni). 

8  De  rebus  Hispanorum  gestis  ad  no-vum 
orbem  Mexicumque  (seven  books,  .based,  ac 
cording  to  Mufioz,  on  Oviedo's  Historia), 
apud  Vol.  in,  pp.  1-244,  of  Opera  cum 
edita,  turn  incdita ;  Madrid,  4  vols.,  4to, 
1780. 

7  Historia    General  de    las   Indias,  and 
Afiologetica  Historia  sumaria  cuanto  a  las 
calidades,   disposition,    description,  &c.,  de 
estas  gentes    de    las    Indias    occidentales  y 
meridionalcs,  still  in  manuscript,  but  very 
legible  transcripts  of  which   are  preserved 
in  private  libraries,  in  New  York,  Boston 
and   Washington.      (We    have   examined 
one  of  these,  and   confess  that  we  know 
of   no    work    calculated    to    throw    more 
light   on  the  early  history  of  this  country 
than  the  Historia   of  the  good   Bishop  of 

'^Chiapas.') 

8  Cronica  de  la  nueua  Esparto  con  la  con- 
yuista  de   Mexico  y  otras  cosas  hechas  for 
Hernando   Cortes.      (2d   Part   of  the   Sara- 
gossa  edit.,   fol.,   1554,  see  supra,  p.   56, 
note  6.)      Also,  as  a  curiosity: 

Historia  de  las  conquistas  de  Hernando 
Cortes,  escrita  en  espanol  par  F.  Lopez  de 
Gomara,  trad,  al  mexicano  par  J.  B.  de 
San  Anton.  Munon  Cfiimalpain  S^tauhtle- 
hunirzin  indico  mexicano  :  publicala  con 
•varias  notas y  adiciones  par  C.  M.  de  Bus- 
tamente ;  Mexico,  a  vols.  410,  1826  .  Sup 


plement  of  37  pp.,  dated  1827.  (The 
Mexican  MS.  has  never  been  seen,  not 
even  by  Bustamente  himself!) 

9  Didlogos  mi/itares;  Mexico,  410,  1553. 
10  De  Natura  No-va  Orhis  libri  duo  et  de 
Prom-vlgatione  E-vangdli  apud  Barbaras ; 
Salamanca,  8vo,  1589  ;  id.,  Cologne, 
1596;  (first  draft  of)  Historia  Nat-vral  y 
Moral  de  las  Indias ;  Seville,  410,  1590  ; 
id.,  8vo,  1591;  Barcelona,  8vo,  1591 
(apud  Ensayo  de  una  Bibliot.  Espafiola, 
Madrid,  8vo,  1863);  Madrid,  4to,  1608; 
id.,  1610;  id.,  1792.  (According  to 
LEON  PINELO,  p.  101,  this  valuable  work 
is  taken  from  the  MS.  Historia  de  los  In- 
dios  de  Nucva  Espana,  of  the  Dominican 
monk  Diego  Duran.) 

11  Apologia  en  defensa  del  ingenio  y  far- 
tales  de  los  Indies  de  la  Nue-va  Espana  con- 
quistada  par  D.  Fernando  Cortcz.  (Added 
to  the  2d  edit,  of  Lasso  de  la  Vega's 
Cortes  "valeroso,  1594  ) 

18  Reportorio  de  los  Tiempos  y  Historia 
Natural  de  Nuc<va  Espana  ;  Mexico,  410, 
1606.  ("libromuy  curioso  i  de  grandes 
noticias  por  tenerlas  su  Autor,  que  oy  vive 
en  Mexico,  i  tiene  otros  escritos,  que 
nunca  llegaran  a  Espana,  pues  el  impresso 
no  se  halla."  LEON  PINELO,  p.  102;  AN 
TONIO,  Vol.  i,  p.  564.) 

13  Historia  General  de  los   Hechos  de  los 
Castellanos ;   Madrid,  fol.,   1601-15   (best 
edit,    for   accuracy);   id.,    1728-30   (with 
an  invaluable  index).     Decade  n,  Lib.  7  ; 
Dec.  in,  Lib.  iv. 

14  XXI  libros  rituales  y  monarchia  Indi 
ana,  con  el  origen  y  guerras  de  los  Indies 
occidentals;   Madrid,   3  vols..   fol.,   1613; 
Madrid,  3  vols.,  fol.,  1723;   Madrid,  fol., 
1730?     (See  MEUSEL.) 

18  Historia  de  la  pro'vincia  de  S.  Vicente 
de  Chyapa  y  Guatemala  ;  Madrid,  fol., 

1619,  or    Historia    General  de   las    Indias 
occidentales,  y  particular  de  la  go-vernation 
de    Chiapa  y    Guatemala  ;     Madrid,    fol., 

1620.  (An  excellent  work,  invaluable  be 
sides  for  a  history  of  Bart,  de  Las  Casas.) 


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za16,  F.  Caro  de  Torres17,  J.  de  Solorzano  Pereira18, 
Bernal  Diaz  del  Castillo19,  B.  L.  Argensola20,  Prudencio 
de  Sandoval21,  F.  Pizarro  y  Orellana",  J.  Dias  de  la 
Calle25,  Antonio  de  Solis14,  Lopez  de  Cogolludo25, 
Agostin  de  Vetancurt26,  J.  de  Villagutiere  de  Soto- 
Mayor*7,  Malo  de  Luque28  (Duke  de  Amodovar),  Carl 
Curths29,  Pietro  Manzi30,  Telesforo  de  Trueba3'  (?), 
Andres  Cavo32,  F.  E.  Santdner33,  Alexander  Soltwedel34, 


1522, 


18  Historias  Ecclesidsticas  y  Sccularts  de 
Aragon  ;  Saragossa,  fol.,  1622. 

17  Historia    de    las    Ordenes    Militares  j 
Madrid,  fol.,  1629. 

18  de     Indiarum     I-vre  ;    Madrid,     fol., 
1629-39  ;    Lyons,    fol.,    1672  ;    Madrid, 
fol.,  1777. 

— Politico  Indiana;  Madrid,  fol.,  1648  ; 
id.,  1776. 

18  Historia  -verdadera  de  la  conqvista 
de  la  nueua  Espana  ;  Madrid,  fol.,  1632; 
id.,  with  addition  of  chapter  ccxn  j  1 6mo, 
1795-1796  ;  Mexico,  4  vols.,  410,  1854. 

20  Anales    de    Aragon  ,•    Saragossa,  fol., 
1630. 

21  Historia  de  la  Vida  y  Hcchos  del  Em- 
perador  Carlos  V ',•   Valladolid,  fol.,  1604; 
Pamplona,  2  vols.,  fol.,  16185    id.,  1634; 
Antwerp,  fol.,  1 68 1.    (The  deeds  of  Cortes 
and  the  development  of  the  Spanish  rule, 
tyranny  and  abominations,  in  New  Spain, 
are   so  interwoven,  so  to  speak,  with  the 
policy  and  rule  of  Charles  V,  that  valuable 
details,  both  of  an  historical  and  political 
character,  may  be  found  in  the  works  of 
STAPHVLUS,  ULLOA,  ZENOCARUS  or  SNOE- 
KEART,  BEUTHER,  SALDE  and  VERA  F.  DE 
LA  ROCA.) 

"  Varonts  ilustres  del  Nue-vo  Mundo  ,• 
Madrid,  fol.,  1639.  (The  second  part  of 
JUAN  DE  CASTELLANOS'  Elegias  de  Varones 
illustres  de  las  Indias,  published  at  Madrid 
only  in  1850,  in  ARIBAU'S  Biblioteca,  may- 
contain  an  eulogy  on  Cortes.  If  our 
memory  serves  us  right,  there  is  none  in 
the  first  part,  published  in  1589.) 

33  Memorial  y  Noticias  sacras  y  reales 
del  Imperio  de  las  Indias  Occidentales  ; 
Madrid,  410,  1646  (and  not  1546,  accord 
ing  to  Meusel  and  others).  This  seems  to 
be  only  the  second  edition,  for  he  states 
in  his  dedication:  "En  el  ano  de  1645 
forme,  imfrimi  y  presente  a  V.  M.  un 
breve  memorial  deste  asunte  .  ."  But  we 


have  not  yet  succeeded  in  finding  a  men 
tion  anywhere  else  of  this  memorial. 

24  Historia  de  la  Cony-vista  de  Mexico  ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1684;  Barcelona,  fol.,  1691  ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1704;  Cordova,  1743  (with 
a  second  part  by  Salazar  y  Olarte,  which  is 
perfectly  worthless)  5  Madrid,  410,  1763; 
id.,  1768  ;  Barcelona,  8vo,  1771  ;  Madrid, 
410,  1783-4  (a  sumptuous  edition);  id., 
4to,  1790;  id.,  8vo,  1791. 

26  Historia  de  la  provincia  de  Yucathan  ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1688  j  Campeche,  8vo  (first 
vol.),  1842;  Merida  (second  vol.),  1845. 

'a  Teatro  Mexicano  ;  Mexico,  fol., 
1698. 

47  Conyuista  de  la  provincia  del  TTtxa  ; 
Madrid,    fol.,    1702.     (The    second  part 
never  was  published.) 

48  Historia  politico  de  los  Establicimien  - 
tos  ultram.  de  las  naciones  Europeas  ;  Mad 
rid,   5   vols.,  410,  1784.     (Rich  says  that 
it  is  only   an  altered   translation  of  Ray- 
nal.) 

a*  Ferd.  Cortex,  der  Eroberer  Mexico's  ; 
Berlin,  8vo,  1818. 

80  Istoria  della  conquista  di  Messico  ; 
Rome,  i6mo,  1820. 

31  Life  of  Hernan    Cortcz ;   Edinburgh, 
I2mo,    1829;    London,    8vo,    1830,-    in 
German  by  Sporschil,  Leipzig,  8vo,  1837. 
(We  know  nothing  concerning  this  work, 
and   mention  it  simply  because  it  had  the 
honor  of  several  reimpressions.) 

32  Los  tres  Siglos  de  Mejiko ;   Mexico,  4 
vols.,  8vo,    1836-8.     (Contains  a  supple 
ment  by  BUSTAMENTE.     Vol.  iv  is  rarely 
met  with.) 

83  Ferd.  Cartels  und  die  Eroberung  -von 
Mexiko ;  Prague,  8vo,  1842.  (Probably 
the  same  as  E.  Delhinor,  Ferdinand  Cortex 
oder  die  Eroberung  "von  Mexico ;  Prag., 
8vo,  1843.) 

34  Mexikoi  erofring  af  Ferd.  Kortex  ; 
Linkoep,  8vo,  1844. 


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I  C2 2.    Belani    (Haeberlin35),   F.   D.   Ring36,   Lucas  Alaman37, 

M.  Orozco  y  Berra38,  J.  L.   Rayon39,   R.  A.  Wilson40; 

Dr.  Robertson41,  and  especially  the  history  composed  by 
the  eloquent  and  imaginative  William  H.  Prescott41. 
Valuable  information  may  also  be  gathered  from  the 
well-known  collections  of  Ramusio43,  Hakluyt44,  Pur- 
chas45,  J.  Sanchez  de  Aguirre45,  J.  F.  de  Espinosa47, 
Lord  Kingsborough48,  Ternaux-Campans49,  several  re- 


85  Geschichte  der  Entdeckung  und  Ero- 
berung  -von  Mexiko  ;  Berlin,  8vo,  1847. 

35  Kurzgefasstc  Geschichte  der  dreiy 
ersten  Entdeckcr  -von  Amerika  ;  Frankfurt, 
8vo,  1781.  "  Libellus,  in  usum  illiterato- 
rum  ex  Robertsono  potissimum  excerptus." 
— MEUSEL. 

87  Discrtacioncs  Historicas  sobre  la  His- 
tdria  de  la   Republics  Mcxicana  ;    Mexico, 
3  vols.,  410,  1844-49. 

88  Noticia  Historica  de  la  Conjuration  del 
Marques  del  Valley    Mexico,   4to,   1853. 
(Alleged    conspiracy   to    cause  Mexico  to 
"  secede,"  and  place  at  the  head  of  the 
government    Martin    Cortes,    son    of  the 
conquistador •,  1565-68.) 

— Itinerario  del  ejercito  espanol  en  la 
conquista  de  Mejico.  (This  valuable  mo 
nograph  is  in  the  Diccionario,  but  we  think 
that  a  few  copies  were  published  sepa 
rately.) 

88  Sumario  de  la  Residencia  tomada  a  D. 
Fernando  Cortes  ,•  Mexico,  2  vols.,  410, 
1852-3. 

— Process  de  Residencia  contra  Pedro  de 
Al-varado,  y  Nuno  de  Guzman  ;  Mexico, 
8vo,  1847  (with  notes  by  D.  J.F.Ramirez). 

40  A   new    history    of    the    Conquest    of 
Mexico;  Philadelphia,  8vo,  1859. 

41  History  of  America,  Book  v. 

42  History  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico,  "with 
a  preliminary  •vicio  of  the  ancient  Mexican 
civilization,  and  the  life  of  the  conqueror 
Hernando  Cortes  ;  New  York,  3  vols.,  8vo, 
1843  (first  edition). 

The  following  translations  contain  valu 
able  notes,  corrections  and  additions : 

Historia  de  la  Conquista  de  Mexico,  trad, 
p.  D.  S.  M.  Gonza/es  de  la  Vega,  y  ano- 
tada  p.  D.  L.  Alamdn  ,•  Mexico,  2  vols., 
4to,  1844-46. 

— Historia  de  la  conquista  de  Mexico 
con  una  ajeada  frelimin.,  &c.,  trad.  p.  D. 


Joaq.  Navarro.  (with  notes  by  J.  F. 
Ramirez  and  J.  R.  Gondra) ;  Mexico,  3 
vols.,  8vo,  1844. 

13  Terxo  Volume  delle  navigation!  et 
"viaggi ;  Venice,  fol.,  1556  (for  two  letters 
from  Pedro  de  Alvarado  to  Cortes  (id.,  in 
BARCJA,  Hittoriad.  primit.,  Vol.  i),  the  ac 
count  addressed  by  Diego  de  Godoy  to  the 
latter,  but  more  especially  for  the  all-im 
portant  "  Relatione  d"un  gentilhuomo  del 
Sig.  Fernando  Cortese"  the  Spanish  original 
of  which  is  unfortunately  lost. 

44  The  principal  Nauigations,  Voyages, 
Sec. ;  London,  3  vols.,  fol.,  1599-1600. 
(In  Vol.  in,  the  journeys  or  voyages  of 
Marco  de  Ni9a,  Coronado,  Ruiz,  Espejo, 
Tomson,  Bodenham,  Hawks  and  Phil 
lips. 

44  Hakl-vytus  Posthumus,  or  Pvrchas  his 
Pi/grimes ;  London,  5  vols.,  fol.,  1625- 
1626;  in  Vol.  in,  Book  V,  extracts  from 
Herrera,  Oviedo,  Acosta,  Gomara,  and  the 
Mendoza  codex;  in  Vol.  iv,  Books  vi  and 
VII,  sundry  interesting  pieces. 

46  Collectio  maxima  conciliorum  omnium 
Hispania   et  No-vi  Orbis ;   Rome,  4  vols., 
fol.,  1693. 

47  Chronica    Apostolica   y    Seraphica    de 
todos    /as   colegios    de   Propaganda   Fide  de 
esta  Nue<va-Espana  j  Mexico,  2  vols.,  410, 
1746-1792. 

48  Antiquities   of  Mexico;     London,   9 
vols.,  fol.,  1830-1848  (the  drawings  by  A. 
Aglio).     See  Vols.  v,  Til,  vm,  for  writ 
ten  accounts. 

49  Voyages,  Relations  et  Memoires  ;  Paris, 
20   vols.,  8vo,  in  two  series,  1837-1840. 
See,  especially,  Vols.   vm  and  x  (1838), 
xni  and  xvi  (1840). 

The  Histoire  de  Tlaxcala,  by  CAMAR- 
GO,  and  the  Histoire  des  Provinces  Septen- 
trionales  du  Mexique,  by  LA  MOTA  PADIL- 
LA,  were  promised,  but  not  published. 


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pertories  published  in  Spain  and  Mexico50,  but,  above 
all,  from  the  invaluable  Coleccion  of  Sefior  D.  Joaquin 
Garcia  Icazbalceta51. 

As  to  understand  fully  the  circumstances  that  led  to 
the  rapid  conquests  achieved  by  Cortes,  which  were 
due  in  a  greater  degree  to  the  character  of  the  natives 


1522, 


60  Diccionario    Universal  dc   Historia  y 
de  Gcografia  ;  Mexico,  10  vols.,  fol.,  1853- 
56.     (This  is  a  reprint  of  the   Barcelona 
edition,   but    with    valuable    additions    by 
Messrs.  Icazbalceta,  Ramirez  and  others.) 

— Documentos para  la  Historia  de  Afejico, 
four  series,  published  in  the  Diario  official, 
between  the  years  1853—57,  in  17  vols., 
8vo,  fol.,  and  410,  Mexico.  (See  BERENDT, 
apud  Peterman^s  Mitthcilungen,  for  Aug., 
1856.) 

— Coleccion  de  Documentos  ineditos  par  la 
Historia  de  Espana  $  Madrid,  1842-1865, 
in  parts,  forming,  up  to  this  date,  about 
40  vols.  8vo. 

— Coleccion  de  Documentos  ineditos  rela 
tives  al  descubrimiento,  &c. ;  Madrid,  1864, 
in  monthly  parts.  (It  is  really  painful  to 
see  the  little  method,  discrimination,  and 
knowledge  displayed  by  the  editors  of  this 
new  publication.) 

61  Coleccion  de  Documentos  para  la  Ais- 
ioria  de  Alexico  ;   Mexico,  4to,  1858.      In 
these  times  when  reputation,  in  view  merely 
of  personal   advancement,   or   the  lust  of 
pecuniary  profit,  are  the  motives  of  so  many 
attempts  in  the  sphere,  not  only  of  letters 
but   of  science,  disinterested   efforts  are  so 
commendable,  that  we  cannot  allow    the 
present  opportunity  to  pass  without  noticing 
the  literary  and  historical  labors  of  Sr.  Dn. 
Joaquin   Garcia   Icazbalceta.       A    scholar 
of  methodical  habits  and  clearness  of  per 
ception,  a  critic   of  great  acumen,   and  a 
disinterested,  modest,  persevering  votary  of 
science,  Senor  Icazbalceta  deserves  well  of 
the  student  of  American  history.   We  wish 
it  were  in  our  power  to  think  as  highly 
of  the  labors  of  certain  scholars,  so  called, 
who,  by  continually   thrusting  themselves 
before  the  public,  have  succeeded  in  secur 
ing  a  position,  a  name,  and  an  abundance 
of  worldly  goods  ! 

The  first  volume  of  this  Coleccion  con 
tains,  besides  the  History  of  the  Indians 


by  Motolinia,  several  letters  of  Cortes, 
never  before  published;  the  important  Pro- 
banza  fecha  en  la  Nueva  Espan.i,  a  pedi- 
mento  de  J.  Ochoa  de  Lejarde  en  nombre 
de  Hernando  Cortes  ;  the  Ordenanxas  milt- 
tares  y  civiles,  issued  by  Cortes,  an  anony 
mous  life  of  this  conqueror,  in  Latin  ;  his 
instructions  for  the  Colima  expedition  ;  and 
upwards  of  fifty  important  documents,  all 
relating  to  the  subject  before  us,  and 
published  for  the  first  time. 

The  second  volume,  which  is  to  be 
published  within  a  few  weeks,  will  con 
tain,  among  others,  the  following  import 
ant  documents : 

— Memorial  de  Luis  Cardenas  contra 
Cortes. 

— Merced  a  Hernando  Cortes  de  tier- 
ras  a  Mexico. 

— Real  provision  sobre  descubrimien- 
tos  en  el  Mar  del  Sur,  y  repuesta  de 
Cortes  a  la  notificacion  que  se  hizo  de  ella. 
— Relacion  de  los  servicios  del  Marques 
del  Valle,  que  de  su  orden  presento  a  S. 
M.  el  lie.  Nunez. 

— Peticion  que  dio  F.  Cortes  contra  A. 
de  Mendoza,  virey,  pidiendo  residencia 
contra  el. 

— Fragmentos  de  la  vista  hecha  a  A. 
de  Mendoza,  Interrogatorio,  &c.  (303 
questions). 

— Leyes  y  ordenanzas  nueuamente  he- 
chas  por  S.  M.   por  la  gobernacion  de  las 
Indias.     (The  "  famous"  laws  which  were 
promulgated   by  a  kind  of  hue-and-cry  in 
the  city  of  Mexico,  May  24th,  1544.) 
— Several  memorials  by  Las  Casas. 
— Relacion  de  la  Jornada  que  hizo  F. 
de  Sandoval  Acazitle,  cacique,  con  A.  de 
Mendoza,  cuando  fue  a  la  conquista  de  los 
indios    Chichimecas,  and,   above    all,  the 
wholly  unknown,  though  highly  important, 
Relacion   hecha   sobre   la   conquista  de 
Mexico  (by  ANDRES  DE  TAFIA,  an  eye 
witness  and  participant). 


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I  $2  2.  and  the  dissensions  which  existed  among  the  Mexican 
-  princes,  than  to  his  unquestionable  skill,  bravery  and 
perseverance,  it  is  necessary  to  study  the  history  of 
Mexico  before  the  conquest,  we  refer  to  the  works  of 
Sahagun52,  Alvarado  Tezozomoc",  Torribio  de  Bene- 
vente  or  Motolinia54,  Fernando  d'AIva  Ixtlilxochitl55, 
A.  de  Zurita56,  Gregorio  Garcia57,  J.  Eusebius  Nierem- 
berg58,  L.  Boturini  Benaduci59,  J.  J.  Granados  y  Galvez60, 
F.  X.  C.  de  Siguenza  y  Gongara61,  F.  X.  Clavigero62, 


M  Historia  general  de  las  Cosas  de  Nue-va 
Espafia;  Mexico,  3  vols.,  410,  1829  (edited 
and  castrated  by  Bustamente  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  require  for  a  perfect  under 
standing  of  that  dry  but  important  work, 
the  reading  of  the  parts  also  published  in 
Vols.  v  and  vi  of  Kingsborough's  Anti 
quities). 

63  Cronica   Mexicana,    no   chapters  in 
KINGSBOROUGH,  Vol.  ix,   pp.   1-196,  and 
Histoire    du    Mexique,   trad,   sur  un    MS. 
inidit  par  H.  Ternaux-Campans  ;   Paris,   2 
vols.,  8vo,  1853. 

64  Historia   de  los   Indies   de  la   Nue-va 
Espana,  in  Vol.  I  of  ICAZBALCETA'S  Colec- 
cion  de  Documentos. 

"  The  "  Mexican  Cicero,"  as  Busta 
mente  calls  him,  wrote  a  certain  number 
of  works,  all  germane  to  the  subject  before 
us,  but  we  think  that  the  following  only 
were  printed  : 

Horribles  Crueldades  de  los  conquistadores 
de  Mexico;  Mexico,  410,  1829.  Trans 
lated  into  French  by  TERNAUX,  and  in 
serted  in  his  Rccueil;  Paris,  8vo,  1838. 

— Historia  Chichimeca,  apud  KINGS- 
BOROUGH'S  Antiquities,  Vol.  IX,  pp.  197- 
316,  and  in  TERNAUX,  second  series,  a 
vols.,  8vo,  1840.  (Extracts  have  been 
translated  and  published  in  the  appendix 
to  PRESCOTT'S  History  of  Mexico.) 

68  Rapport  sur  les  different^  classes  de 
chefs  de  la  Nou-velle  Espagne,  in  TERNAUX, 
Rccueil,  8vo,  1840. 

47  Origen  de  los  Indies  del  Nue-vo  Mun- 
do  y  Indias  Occidentales  ;  Valencia,  12010, 
1607;  Madrid,  fol.,  1729.  (Book  v  con 
tains  the  opinions  which  the  Indians  them 
selves  held  concerning  their  origin.) 

68  Historia  naturte,  maxime  peregrina:, 
librit  xvi  distinctte  ;  Antwerp,  fol.,  1635. 


(This  work  seems  to  occupy  a  middle 
ground  between  the  work  of  Acosta  and 
the  well-known  Naturaleza  y  Virtudcs  de 
los  Ar boles,  &c.,  de  la  Nueva  Espana 
of  FRANCISCO  HERNANDEZ  (Mexico,  410, 
1615),  as  it  contains  a  great  deal  of 
Natural  History,  probably  taken  from  the 
latter,  and  historical  facts,  which  we  have 
seen  quoted  by  several  Mexican  historians. ) 
69  Idea  de  una  Nue-va  Historia  General 
de  la  America  Septentrional ;  Madrid,  410, 
1746. 

80  Tardes  Americanos ;  gobierno  gentil  y 
catolico,  breve  y  particular  noticia  de  toda 
la   historia  Indiana;    Mexico,  4to,    1778. 
(Imaginary    dialogue    between    a    learned 
Indian    and    a    Spaniard    concerning    the 
early  history  of  Mexico.) 

81  Piedad  heroyca  de  Hernando  Cortex. 
— Del  origen   de    los    Indies   Mexicanos 

que  se  llamaron  Toltecas. 

— Cyclographia  Mexicana,  o  modo  qite 
los  Mexicanos  tenian  en  contar  los  anas, 
meses,  y  dias,  de  que  se  deduce  con  c-vidcncia 
la  antiguedad  de  la  nacion. 

— Mithologia  Mexicana. 

We  borrow  these  last  three  titles  from 
ANTONIO,  Bibl.  Hist  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p. 
232,  but  are  unable  to  state  whether  the 
works  were  ever  printed.  Those  who 
have  access  to  the  rarissime  Biblioteca  His- 
pano- Americano  Septentrional  of  BERIS- 
TAIN  may  ascertain  the  fact. 

8a  Storia  antica  del  Messico  ;  (Jesena,  4 
vols.,  4to,  1780-1  ;  History  of  Mexico  ; 
London,  410,  1787;  Philadelphia,  8vo, 
1804;  London,  410,  1807;  Historia  an- 
tigua  de  Megico  ;  London,  8vo,  1826. 
(The  latest  translation  into  Spanish  is  by 
F.  P.  Vasquez,  Bishop  of  Puebla,  Mexico, 
4to,  1853.) 


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Mariano  Veytia63,  C.  M.  Bustamente64,  and  even  the  1522, 
ambitious  attempt  of  the  indefatigable  Abbe  Brasseur  -—.——-- 
de  Bourbourg6'". 

The  Catholic  Church  and  its  various  monastic  orders 
have  so  shaped  what  some  authors  term  the  modern 
civilization  of  Mexico — the  Dominicans,  Franciscans, 
and  Jesuits  played  such  an  important  part  in  the  early 
history  of  the  conquest — that  their  chronicles  yet  form 
a  trustworthy,  though  chaotic  repertory  of  facts  and 
documents.  The  reader,  therefore,  should  not  neglect 
to  consult  the  monkish  histories  of  Alonso  Fernandez65, 
Geronimo  de  Mendieta67,  J.  de  Grijalva68,  Gonzales  de 
la  Puente69,  G.  G.  Davila70,  G.  Garcia71,  A.  Davila 
Padilla72,  Alonso  de  la  Rea7?,  Baltazar  de  Medina74,  F. 


63  Historic!  Antigua  de  Mejico  ;  Mexico, 
3   vols.,  4to,  1836.     (The   best  work  as 
yet  written  concerning  the  early  history  of 
Mexico.      Published  with  additions  by  D. 
F.  Ortega,  but  without  the  introduction, 
which  was  afterwards  inserted  in  K.INGS- 
BOiiOUGH's  Antiquities,  Vol.  vm,  pp.  159— 
217. 

64  Galeria   de   antiguos   Principes  Meji- 
canos  ;   Puebla,  4to,  i8zi. 

— Cronica  Mexicana.  Teomoxtli  o  Libra 
que  conticnc  todo  lo  interesante  a  Usos,  Cos- 
tumbres,  &c.,  de  los  Indies  antiquos  Tultecas 
y  Mexicanos ;  Mexico,  4to,  1822. 

—  Tezcoco  en  los  ultimas  tiempos  de  sus 
antiquos  reyes  ;  Mexico,  4to,  1826. 

(Los  horores  de  Cortes ;  Mexico,  410, 
1821,  is  simply  a  virulent  pamphlet,  in 
which  Bustamente  endeavored  to  show 
that  O'Donoghue  (the  last  Vice-Roy  of 
Mexico)  surpassed  even  Cortes  in  cruelty. 

65  Histoire  des  nations  civilised  du  Me- 
xique   et  de  PAmerique-Centrale;   Paris,  4 
vols.,    8vo,    1859.       (Years    will     elapse 
before  the  historian  is  placed  in  possession 
of  sufficient  data  to  write  anything  but  an 
imaginary  history  of  the  civilized  nations 
of  Mexico  "  durant  les  siecles  anterieurs  a 
Christophe  Colomb"  !) 

69  Hi 'star la  eclesiastica  de  nucstros  tiempos; 
Toledo,  fol.,  1611. 

67  Historia  eclesiastica  Indiana.  (This 
valuable  work,  which  was  known  only 
from  the  notice  in  LEON  PINELO,  p.  114, 


and  supposed  to  be  lost,  has  been  lately 
discovered  in  Spain,  and  will  be  pub 
lished  in  Vol.  in  of  Senor  ICAZBALCETA'S 
Coleccion. ) 

69  Cronica  de  la  Orden  de  N.  P.  S. 
Augustin  en  las  Provincial  de  la  Nueva 
Esfafla;  Mexico,  410,  1624.  (Es  His 
toria  bien  escrita,  i  que  no  sale  de  lo  que 
en  el  Titulo  promete  " — PJNELO-BARCIA, 
col.  761.) 

89  Historia  de  S.  Agostin  de  la  provincia 
de  Mechoacan  ;  fol.,  1624  (TERNAUX,  No. 
466). 

ro  Teatro  Eclesiastico  de  la  primiti-va 
Iglesia  de  las  Indias  occidentales  ;  Madrid, 
2  vols.,  fol.,  1649-56. 

71  Predicacion  del  E-v angelio  end  Nuevo 
Mundo,    1625  (apud  ANTONIO,    Sib/.    H. 
Nov.  i,  544). 

72  Historia    de    la  fundacion    ••;    discurso 
de    la  provincia    de  Santiago    de  Mexico ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1596;  Bruxelles,  fol.,  1625; 
Antonio    and    Meusel   add     "  Valladolid 
(hac    epigraphe    non    satis     apta  :     Varia 
Aistoria    de    la     Nueva     Espana),     1634, 
fol." 

73  Chronica  de  la   Orden  de  N.  S.   P.   S. 
Francisco;  Mexico,  4to,  1643.     (There  is 
an  Alonso  de  Roa  mentioned  by  PINELO- 
BARCIA,  col.  754,  as  the  author  of  Chronica 
de  la  Pro-vincia  de  San  Pedro,  i  San  Pablo 
de  Mechoacan  ;  Mexico,  410,  1635.) 

74  Cronica  de  la  Pro-vincia  de  S.  Diego 
de  Mejico;   Mexico,  fol.,  1682. 


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1522.    J.  Alegre75,  Juan  Lopez75,  A.  Perez  de  Ribas77,  and  the 
—  collections  of  Abp.  Lorenzana78,  all  of  which  find  their 
fit  complement  and  commentary  in  Matias  de  Bocane- 
gra's  Historia  del  Auto  de  Fe  en  Mexico™. 

In  studies  of  this  description,  the  pandects80  (if  the 


74  Historia  de  la  Pro-vincia  de  la  Com- 
pania  de  Jesus  de  la  Nue-va  Esfafta,  pub 
lished  by  BUSTAMENTE  ;  Mexico,  3  vols., 
410,  1841-2. 

78  Historia  General;  Valladolid,  1615. 
We  know  the  work  only  from  the  citation 
in  DIAZ  DE  LA  CALLE,  which  leads  to  the 
belief  that  this  Historia  refers  to  the  sub 
ject  before  us,  but  we  are  apprehensive 
that  the  Lopez  mentioned  by  De  la  Calle 
is  the  Johannes  Lopez  of  UGHELLI  and 
ANTONIO,  while  the  work  is  only  the 
well-known  Historia  General  de  Santo  Do 
mingo  y  de  su  or  den  de  Predicadores. 

It  must  be  said,  however,  that  in 
PINELO-BARCIA  (col.  753)  there  is  a  ref 
erence  to  JUAN  MELENDEZ  (Tesoros  -verd. 
de  las  Tndias;  Rome,  fol.,  1 68 1,  Vol.  i, 
fol.  97),  from  which  we  infer  that  there 
are  additions  to  the  above  Hist.  gen.  de  S. 
D.  which  refer  to  the  Indies. 

77  Historia  de   los    Triumfos    de    nucstra 
Santa  Fe  entre  gentes  las   mas   bdrbaras  y 
fieras  del  nueuo  Orbe ;  Madrid,  fol.,  1645. 

78  Concilios  provinciates,  frimero  y  segun- 
do  ;   Mexico,  410,  1769. 

— Concilium  pro-vinciale  III  Mexican  ; 
Mexico,  410,  1770.  (The  acts  of  thejirst 
councils  were  printed  as  early  as  1556,  by 
Juan  Pablo,  and  therefore  before  1622, 
which  is  the  date  given  by  BRUNET,  in, 
467.) 

79  Historia   del  Auto   de   Fe  en   Mexico  ; 
Mexico,  410,  1649;  id.,  1652. 

We  are  of  the  impression  that  the  fol 
lowing  works  might  serve  as  a  useful  index 
to  comprehend  the  inner  workings  of  those 
religious  organizations  which  have  been 
the  immediate  cause  of  so  much  harm  in 
Mexico : 

— Constituciones  del  arxobispado  de  Mexi 
co  ;  Mexico,  fol.,  1556. 

— Ordinarium  sacri  ordinis  huercmitarum ; 
Mexico,  410,  1556. 

— Reglas  y  constitucior.es  de  la  cofradia 
de  los  juramentos ,'  Mexico,  fol.,  1567. 

— Instituta  ordinis  Beati  Francisci ;  Mexi 
co,  410,  1567. 


— Estatutosgenerales  de  Barcelona ;  Mexi 
co,  410,  1585  (for  the  order  of  the  Fran 
ciscans). 

— Constitutiones  ordinis  fratrum  eremi- 
tarum  Sancti  Augustlnl  ;  Mexico,  8vo, 
1587. 

— Forma  y  modo  de  fundar  las  cofradias 
del  cordon  de  N.  P.  S.  Francisco  ;  Mexico, 
8vo,  1589. 

— Fundacion  e  indulgcncias  de  la  orden  de 
la  Merced.  ;  Mexico,  8vo,  1595. 

— Regla  de  los  frailes  menorcs ;  Mexico, 
4to,  1595. 

— Derecho  de  las  iglesias  metropolitanat 
de  las  Indias ;  Madrid.  410,  1634  (1635 
and  1637  ?). 

The  Church  history  of  that  distracted 
country  is  blended  in  so  great  a  degree 
with  superstitions,  more  contemptible  even 
than  the  idolatry  which  they  were  in 
tended  to  supersede,  that  we  deem  it  a  sad 
necessity  for  the  historian  to  feel  compelled 
to  peruse  such  miserable  productions  as  the 
following  : 

— GoNGORA  Y  SlGUENZA,  Prima'vcra 
Indiana,  poema  sacro  de  N.  S.  de  Guada- 
loupc;  — ,  8vo,  1668  (PINELO-BARCIA,  col. 
840). 

— Luis  CISNEROS,  Historia  de  Na.  Sa. 
de  los  remedies  de  Mexico,  que  llc'vo  Juan 
Rodriguez  de  filla-fuerte  a  la  conquista ; 
Mexico, — ,  1621  (TERNAUX,  No.  435). 

— Hue!  T/amaAuizo/tica,  onronexiti  inil- 
huicac  Tlatoca  xiuapillc  Sa.  Ma.  Totlazon- 
antzin  Guadaloupe ;  Mexico,  4to,  1649. 
(TERNAUX,  No.  683.) 

80  Ordendcas y  copilacion  de  Leyes;  Mex 
ico,  fol.,  1548  (organizing  the  courts  of 
law,  regulating  the  lawyers,  attorneys, 
constables,  &c.,  &c.,  enacted  in  April, 
I  528).  See  infra. 

— Leyes  y  ordenancas  nueuamete  hechas 
par  su  Magestadj  p"a  la  gouernacion  de  las 
Indias  y  buen  tratamiento  y  conseruacion  de 
los  Indies  ;  Alcala,  fol.,  1543.  (Laws 
issued  by  Charles  V,  limiting  the  parti 
tions  of  lands  among  the  conquistadores.) 

— Philippus    Hispaniarum     et    Indiarum 


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expression  is  not  superlatively  pretentious  when  applied     I  C22. 

to  the  crude  digests  of  laws  and  ordinances  framed  from 

time  to  time  by  Spain  for  her  distant  colonies)  neces 
sarily  find  a  place  in  this  connection.  Nor  are  Geog 
raphy  and  Archaeology  to  be  neglected.  We  therefore 
mention  the  curious  works  of  Francesco  Cervantes  de 
Salazar81,  Diego  de  Cisneros82,  F.  de  Cepeda83,  F.  de 
Burgoa84,  Villa-Senor  y  Sanchez85,  A.  Leon  y  Gama86, 
Gemelli  Careri87,  G.  R.  Carli88,  Bustamente64,  Alexander 
von  Humboldt89,  and  the  sumptuous  collections  of 
drawings  of  monuments  and  hieroglyphics  published  by 
Del  Rio  or  Cabrera90,  Nebel91,  Lenoir,  Warden  and 
Farcy92,  Fred,  de  Waldeck93,  Wetherell94,  Charnay95,  and 
especially  by  the  unfortunate  Lord  Kingsborough48. 


Rex.  Pro-vis,  cedulas,  &c.;  Mexico,  fol., 
1563.  (There  is  a  copy  of  this  extremely 
rare  and  important  summary  of  Spanish 
colonial  law  by  VASCO  DE  PUGA,  in  a  pri 
vate  libr.,  Providence,  R.  I.) 

— Sumario  de  recopilacion  general  de  las 
Icyes  y  ordenanzas  que  se  han  promulgado 
for  'las  Indias  occidentals ;  Madrid,  fol., 
1628. 

81  Dialog!  de  Academia  Mexicana :  C'-vi- 
tas  Mexicus  inter.     Ci-vitas  Mexicus  exter.  ; 
Mexico,  Juan  Pablos,  8vo,   1554.     (The 
only  copy   known   of  this   curious  collec 
tion  of  dialogues  is  in  a  private  library,  in 
the    city    of  Mexico.       We    suppose    the 
author    to    be    identical    with    the    CER- 
VA^TES    mentioned     by    Antonio,    B.    H. 
Nova,  i,  414.) 

82  SittOj  naturalc^a  y  propriedades  de  la 
ciudad  de  Mexico  ;  Mexico,  4to,  1618. 

83  Relation    universal  y    -verdadera    del 
sitio    en    que    esta  fundada    la    ciudad   de 
Mexico;  Mexico,  fol.,  1637. 

84  Geografica  description  de  la  parte  Sep 
tentrional,  del  polo  artico  de  la  America,  y 
nue-va    Iglesia   de  las   Indias    Occidentales ; 
Mexico,  fol.,  1674. 

See  also  the  anonymous  : 
— Reconocimientos  de  los  rios  del  -valle  de 
Mexico;  Mexico,  fol.,  1748. 

85  Theatre  Americano,  description  general 
de    los    reynos  y   pro-vincias    de    la    nuc'ua 
Espana;   Madrid,  3  vols.,  fol.,   1746-48- 
74- 


88  Description  Historica  y  Cronologica  de 
las  dos  Piedras;  Mexico,  410,  1792;  id. 
(with  the  addition  of  a  second  part),  8vo, 
1832. 

87  Giro   del   Mondo  ;    Naples,    6   vols., 
izmo,  1699-1700. 

88  Delle    Lettere   Americane,    Cosmopoli 
(i.e.,  Florence),  2  vols.,  8vo,  1780. 

89  Essai  Politiquc  sur  le    royaume  de  la 
Nou-velle  Espagne  ;  Paris,  z  vols.,  410,  and 
one  folio  for  the  Atlas,  1811. 

— Vues  des  Cordilleres  et  monuments  des 
peuples  indigenes  de  fAmirique^  Paris,  2 
vols.,  fol.,  1810. 

80  Description  of  the  ruins  of  an  ancient 
city  disco'vered  near  Palenque ;  London, 
410,  1822. 

61  Voyage  fitter esque  et  arch'eologiqut 
dans  la  partie  la  plus  interessante  du  Mex- 
ique  ,•  Paris,  fol.,  1836. 

"a  Antiquites  Mexicaines;  Paris,  3  vols., 
fol.,  1834-36.  (Capt.  Dupaix'  three  expe 
ditions  to  Mitka  and  Palenque,  1805-7.) 

83  Coleccion  de  las   Antiquedades  Mexi- 
canas   que   ecsisten   en  el    Museo  national; 
Mexico,  fol.,  1827. 

—  Voyage  pittoresque  et  archeologique 
dans  la  province  d" Yucatan;  Paris,  fol., 
1838. 

94  Catalogo  de  una  Coleccion  de  An- 
tiguidades  Mexic anas ;  Seville,  4to,  1842. 

84  Vucs     Photographiques     des     ancient 
monuments  du  Mexique  ;   Paris,  fol.,  1862. 


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I  $22.        As  to  the  poems  of  Gabriel  Lasso  de  la  Vega96,  A.  de 
_  Saavedra  Guzman97,  Melchior  de  la  Vega98,  Bernardino 

de  Balbuena",  J.  Osorio  Cortes100,  Caspar  de  Villagra101, 
Arias  Villalobas102,  Fernando  de  Zarate103,  F.  Ruiz  de 
Leon104,  J.  de  Escoiquiz105,  P.  Roure106,  Roux  de  Ro- 
chelle107,  and  of  several  anonymous  versifiers108,  or  the 
plays  of  Josef  Canizares100,  Firmin  del  Rey110,  Piron111, 
Alfonso  Cavacio111,  and  even  of  Lope  de  Vega"3  and 
John  Dryden"4,  we  apprehend  that  they  present  but 
little  interest  to  the  student  of  history. 

Concerning  the  biography  and  bibliography  of  the 
early  Mexican  writers,  the  reader  will  find  abundant  mate 
rials  in  the  rare  compilations  of  J.  J.  Eguiara  y  Eguiren"5, 
J.  L.  Maneiro116,  and  J.  M.  Beristain  y  Souza"7. 


98  Primer  a  parte  de  Cortes  valeroso  y  la 
Mexycana  ;  Madrid,  410,  1588  (12  can 
tos)  5  id.,  izmo,  1594,  with  the  addition 
of  13  cantos. 

— Elogios  en  loor  de  los  tres  famosos 
•varenes  D.  Jayme,  rey  de  dragon,  D.  Fer 
nando  Cortex,  marque*  del  -valle,  y  D. 
Alvaro  Baxan ;  Saragossa,  I2mo,  1601. 

97  El  Peregrino  Indiana,   Poema  de    los 
Hcchos  de  Hernan  Cortes;    Madrid,  lamo, 
1599.     (There  was  to  be  a  second  part, 
which  has  never  been  published.) 

98  Relacion   de   las  grandexas  del  Peru, 
Mexico  y    los    Angeles ;     Mexico,    I  zmo, 
1 60 1. 

99  Grandexa  Mexicana  del  bachiller  B. 
de  Balbucna;   Mexico,  I2mo,  1604.     (Ef 
fusion  of  a  poet  praised  by  Lope  de  Vega. 
See  TERNAUX,  No.  269.)    Reprinted,  Mad 
rid,  i8mo,  1829. 

100  Cortesiada,    Poema    heroico   de    Don 
Hernando   Cortes,  dedicado  al  Rey  Don  Fe 
lipe  4°  el  Grande.     (MS.  in  the  Bibliottca 
Real,  apud  ALCEDO,  Bibliot.  Am.  MS.  and 

B.ARCrA-PlNELO.) 

101  Historia  de  laNue-va  Mexico ;  Alcala, 
I2mo,    1610.      It  is   alleged  that  Cortes 
went  as  far  as  what  is  now  called  in  the 
United  States  New  Mexico. 

102  Historia  de  Mexico  desde  la  fundacion 
hasta  1623;   Mexico, — ,  1623. 

103  Conquista  de  Mexico. 

504  Hernindia,  triunphos  de  la  Fe  y  gloria 
de  las  armas  espanolas ;  proexas  de  Hernan 
Cortes,  Poema  heroyc o ;  Madrid,  4to,  1755. 


106  Mexico  conquistada,  Poema  hcroica  ; 
Madrid,  3  vols.,  8vo,  1798. 

06  La  Conquete  du  Mexiquc,potmc  en  10 
chants,  with  historical  notes ;  Paris,  8vo, 
1811. 

107  Fernand  Cortex,  Poemc ;   Paris,  8vo, 
1838. 

108  Obediencia  que  Mexico  dio  al  rey  D. 
Felipe  IV  con  un  discurso  en  verso  del  estado 
de  la  misma  ciudad  desde  el  mas  antiguo  de 
su fundacion,  imperio y  conquhta  hasta  hoy; 
Mexico,  410,  1623. 

— Le  Mexique  conquis,  Pocme  /leroiyue  ; 
Paris,  8vo,  1751. 

— UErohmo  di  Ferdinando  Cortese  con- 
fermato  centre  le  censure  nemiche ;  Roms, 
8vo,  1806.  (A  poem  or  a  comedy  ?) 

—  The  fall  of  Mexico,  410,  n.  d.  (Raet- 
zel  Catalogue,  No.  1670.) 

109  El  Pleyto  de  Hernan  Cortex. 

110  Hernan  Cortex  en  Tabasco  (apud TER 
NAUX,  No.  443). 

111  Fernan  Cortex,  Comedie  ,•    Paris,   8vo, 
1744    (translated    into    Spanish,    Malrid, 
8vo,  1776). 

112  Motee^uma,    Empcrador  de    Mexico  ; 
Tragedia,    1709.     12.    Italiano     (PINELO- 
BARCIA). 

113  Marquex  del  Valle. 

14  The  Indian  Emperour  or  the  Cr>nyucst 
of  Mexico  by  the  Spaniards  ;  London, 
1651  ;  1667,  1668,  1692,  1700,  all  in  410. 
115  Bibliotheca  Mexicana,  sea  his,toria 
•virorum  in  America  boreale  natorum;  Mex 
ico,  fol.,  1775.  (Contains  only  the  letters 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

It  is  not  in  times  when  Philology  has  been  found 
to  present  the  most  efficient  and  reliable  means  of  ascer 
taining  the  history  of  the  early  migrations  of  primitive 
races,  that  we  should  overlook  the  praiseworthy  efforts 
of  Senores  Orozco  y  Berra118,  Francisco  Pimentel"9,  and 
the  valuable  index  of  Dr.  H.  E.  Ludwig120,  which,  how- 


1522, 


A,  B,  C,  but  many  dissertations  of  interest. 
Copy  in  private  libr.,  N.  Y.) 

16  de  "viris  aliquot    Mixicanorum    alio- 
rum-juc  qui  si-ve  -virtute,  si've  litteris,  Mexici 
imprimis  Jioruerunt ;  Bologna,  3  vols.,  8vo, 
1791. 

17  Bibliotheca   Hi  spano- Americana  Sep 
tentrional;  Mexico,  3  vols.,4to,  1816-1821. 

118  Geograf'ia   de   las    Lenguas  y   Carta 
Ethnografica    de    Mexico ;     Mexico,    8vo, 
1864. 

119  Cuadro  descripti-vo  y  compar'ativo  de 
las  Lenguas  Indigenas  de  Mexico  ;   Mexico, 
2  vols.,  8vo,  1862-65. 

120  The  Literature  of  American   Abori 
ginal   Languages.       Bibliotheca     Glottica  ; 
London,  Svo,  1858.    (This  valuable  work 
is  evidently  based,  in  its  present  form,  upon 
the  American  portion  of  VATER,  Litt.  der 
Gram.  I.exica  und  Wortcrs.  aller  Sprachcn 
der  Erde ;  Berlin,  Svo,  1847.) 

As  to  manuscript  sources,  the  reader 
will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  copies  of  the 
following  unpublished  works  are  in  a  pri 
vate  library  in  New  York  : 

— ESTRELLA  (J.  C.  C.)  de  Rebus  Indicis. 

— DURAN  (DiEGo)  Historia  Antigua  de 
Nueva  Espafia,  3  large  vols.,  with  numer 
ous  colored  drawings  of  Mexican  hiero 
glyphics.  (See  supra,  note  10.) 

— ZORITA  (ALONZO  DE)  Breve  y  Sumaria 
Relacion  de  los  Senores,  maneras,  y  difer- 
encias  que  havia  de  ellos  en  la  Nueva 
Espafia. 

— GONGORA,  Lista  de  los  Conquistadores 
de  Nueva  Espana. 

— Relacion  de  la  provincia  de  Meztitlan 
por  Gabriel  de  CHAVES. 

— Cartas  de  Fr.  Juan  de  ZUMARRAGA 
primero  Obispo  de  Mexicco,  1529. 

— Pasqual  de  ANDAGOVA,  Descripcion  de 
las  Provincias  de  Tierra-Firme  y  relacion 
de  lo  ocurrido  en  ellas  desde  1514,  hasta, 

1541- 

In  a  private  library,  Washington  city  : 
— Historia  antigua  de  la  Nueva  Espana, 


con  noticias  de  los  ritos  y  costumbres  y 
explicacion  del  calendario  Mexicano,  por 
el  Padre  FR.  DIEGO  DURAN,  de  la  orden 
de  Santo-Domingo,  escrita  en  el  ano  de 
1588.  (See  supra.} 

— 'Relacion  de  las  ceremonias  y  pobla- 
cion  y  gubernacion  de  los  Indies  de  la  pro 
vincia  de  Mechuachan,  hecha  al  Illmo 
Senor  Dn.  Antonio  de  Mendoza.  (ANONY 
MOUS.) 

The  following  manuscripts,  collected  by 
PRESCOTT,  are  now  in  a  private  library  in 
Boston,  Mass. : 

— Relaciones  de  los  primeros  Descubri- 
dores  de  Nueva  Espana  (originals  in  the  Vi 
enna  Imperial  Library*)  ;  Relacion  del  des- 
cubrimiento  y  conquista  de  Nueva  Espana, 
escrita  al  Emperador  Carlos  V°  y  su  madre 
Da  Juana  por  la  Justicia  y  Reximiento 
de  la  ciudad  de  Vera  Cruz  a  diez  dias  de 
julio  de  1519  ;  Segunda  Relacion  de  Her- 
nan  Cortes  a  el  mismo  Emperador,  a  30  de 
octubre  de  1520;  Tercera  Relacion  em- 
biada  por  Hernando  Cortes  al  Emperador,  a 
15  de  mayo  de  1522;  Quarta  Relacion  de 
Hernando  Cortes  dirigida  al  Emperador,  a 
15  de  octubre  de  1524  ;  Una  Relacion  de 
Pedro  de  Alvarado  a  Hernando  Cortes 
escrita  en  Vilatan  a  once  de  abril  (year 
not  mentioned)  ;  Otra  Relacion  de  Pedro 
de  Alvarado,  escrita  en  S"  Tiago  a  28 
de  julio  de  1523;  Relacion  de  Pedro  de 
Godoy  a  Fernando  Cortes  (no  date);  Ex- 
tracto  de  los  Primeros  Descubrimientos 
de  F.  Pizarro  y  D.  de  Almagro  hecho  por 
Juan  de  Samanos  para  remitir  a  algun 
principe,  que  no  se  expresa  quien  sea ; 
Relacion  de  Hernan  Cortes  al  Empera 
dor  (no  date);  Despacho,  Instruccion  y 
Cartas  dadas  por  Cortes  a  Antonio  Gival 
para  Alvaro  de  Saavedra  el  ano  de  1526; 
Table  of  Contents  of  the  "  Coleccion  de 
Memorias  de  Nueva  Espana,"  in  32  vol 
umes,  collected  and  prepared  by  order  of 
the  Spanish  government  in  1792.  Los 
Primeros  Senores  de  Teotihuacan  y  sus 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

I  $22.  ever  much  improved  by  the  additions  and  corrections  of 
.  W.  W.  Turner,  is  destined  to  be  surpassed  by  the  new 
edition  which  will  soon  be  published  by  the  learned, 
modest,  indefatigable  and  disinterested  Dr.  Berendt, 
now  engaged  in  exploring  the  comparatively  unknown 
and  mysterious  island  of  Peten,  in  Guatemala. 

Whatever  may  be  the  importance  of  the  facts  related 
in  several  of  the  above-mentioned  works,  the  fountain- 


comarcas ;  Poems,  &c.,  by  the  Emperor 
Nezahualcoyott,  translated  into  Spanish  by 
his  descendant,  Fernando  de  Alva  (and  into 
English  by  Prescott,  Appendix  to  his  Hist, 
of  Mexico,  Vol.  in,  p.  429). 

— Documents  from  the  Collection  of  Don 
Juan  Bautista  Munoz :  Relacion  de  la 
carta  que  los  Alcaldes  y  Regidores  de  la 
Villa  de  Vera  Cruz  scriven  a  V.  Mag.  e 
de  lo  que  ha  pasado  en  su  viage  e  pobla- 
cion,  a  seis  de  Julio  de  15195  Letter  of 
Diego  Velasquez,  Gonzalo  de  Guzman, 
and  Panfilo  de  Narvaez  to  M.  de  Chievres, 
Oct.  12,  1519;  Letter  from  D.  Velasquez 
to  Chievres,  Oct.  12,  1519;  Instructions 
of  Velasquez  to  Cortes,  Oct.  23,  1518; 
Letter  of  Pasamonte  to  Charles  V.,  Jan. 
15,  1520;  Deposition  of  F.  de  Montejo, 
April  29,  1520;  Deposition  of  Puertocar- 
rero,  April  30,  1520;  Letter  from  the 
Audiencia  of  San  Domingo  to  the  Em 
peror,  inclosing  a  report  from  the  licen 
tiate  Ayllon,  Governor  of  Cuba,  Aug.  30, 
i  520  ;  Ordenanzas  militares  y  civiles,  Tax- 
calteque,  Dec.  22,  1520,  and  Mexico, 
March  20,  1524;  Accusations  of  Narvaez 
against  Cortes,  without  date;  Letter  of  the 
licentiate  Zuazo,  Governor  of  Cuba,  and 
Fray  Luis  de  Figueroa,  Nov.  14,  1521  ; 
De  Rebus  gestis  Ferdin.  Cortesii,  incerto 
auctore;  Relacion  de  la  plata  que  se  hubo 
de  la  Provincia  de  Mechoacan,  &c.;  Com 
mission  to  Cortes  as  Governor,  &c.,  of 
New  Spain,  Oct.  15,  1522;  Power  of  at 
torney  from  Cortes  to  his  father,  May  8, 
1522;  Cedula  declarando  que  la  Nueva 
Espafia  no  puede  ser  enagenada  de  la  co 
rona,  22  de  octubre,  1523;  Gastos  de  la 
expedicion  que  llevo  Cristoval  Dolid,  1523; 
Minuta  de  carta  de  Cortes  a  Francisco 
Cortes,  1524;  Ynstruccion  civil  y  militar 
a  Francisco  Cortes  por  la  expedicion  de  la 
costa  de  Colima,  1524;  Memorials  with 


out  date,  addressed  by  Cortes  to  the  Em 
peror,  respecting  the  affairs  of  New  Spain; 
Letter  of  the  Emperor  to  Cortes,  Nov. 
4,  1525;  Letter  of  Cortes  to  the  Audi 
encia  of  San  Domingo,  May  10,  1526; 
Letters  of  Cortes  to  the  Emperor,  Sept. 
II,  1526;  Letter  to  the  Emperor  (with 
out  signature  or  date)  respecting  gold  sent 
by  Cortes  to  Spain ;  Memorial  contra  el 
de  Luis  Cardenas,  15  de  julio,  1528; 
Letter  of  the  Emperor  granting  to  Cortes 
the  title  of  Marques  del  Valle,  July  6, 
1529;  Grant  of  estates  to  Cortes,  July  23, 
1529;  Memoria  de  lo  acaecido  en  esta 
ciudad  de  Temixtitan  despues  quel  Gover- 
nador  Hernando  Cortes  salio  della  que  fue 
a  lo  doce  dias  del  mes  de  octubre  de  1525  ; 
Report  addressed  to  the  Emperor  by  Rod- 
rigo  Albornoz,  Dec.  15,  1525;  Report 
of  Nufto  de  Guzman  of  the  affairs  of 
Panuco  and  New  Galicia  during  his  gov 
ernment,  no  date  ;  Privilegio  de  Dofla 
Ysabel  Motezuma,  otogardo  por  Cortes, 
June  27,  1526;  Reports  of  Diego  de 
Ocana  respecting  affairs  of  Mexico,  Aug. 
31,  Sept.  9,  Sept.  17,  1526;  Lo  que  el 
Marques  del  Valle  escrive  al  Licenciado 
Nunez  que  haga  relacion  a  V.  M.  sobre  las 
cosas  de  la  Nueva  Espafia,  &c.  (no  date); 
Letter  of  Cortes  to  the  Council  of  the 
Indies,  Feb.  8,  1535;  Letter  of  Don  A. 
de  Mendoza  to  the  Emperor,  Dec.  10, 
1537;  Letter  of  Cortes,  Sept.  29,  1538; 
Memorial  addressed  to  the  King  by  the 
Indian  caciques  of  Santiago  de  Atitlan, 
Feb.  I,  1571  ;  Memorial  de  lo  que  se  pide 
por  D.  Juan  de  Mote9uma,  hijo  de  Juan 
Cano  y  de  Dona  Ysabel  de  Motecuma, 
&c.  (no  date). 

— Documents  from  the  Collection  of  Var 
gas  Pon-ze :  Memorial  de  Benito  Martinez, 
capellan  de  Diego  Velazquez  contra  Her- 
nan  Cortes  (no  date)  ;  Ynstruccion  de 


Elblwtheca   Americana. 


215 


head  of  information  concerning  the  conquest  of  Mexico     1^22. 
will  always  be  the  numerous  epistolary  accounts  written  —--—.-- 
by  Cortes  himself.      It  is  to  be  regretted  that  they  have 
not  been  all  published.    Senor  Icazbalceta  gives  a  list  of 
not  less  than  thirty-three  of  Fernando  Cortes'   cc  escritos 
rueltos"  which,   added  to  the  following  printed   Cartas 
de  Relation,  would  form  a  volume  of  paramount  interest. 
In  the  absence  of  the  Carta  de  Relation,  dated  Villa 
Rica  de  la  Vera-Cruz,  July   10,    1519,   which  has  not 


Diego  Velazquez  a  Cortes  y  Grijalva,  Oct. 
23,  1518;  Letter  of  Velazquez  to  Chievres, 
Oct.  12,  1519;  Informaciones  recibidas 
por  comision  de  la  Audiencia  de  Sto  Do 
mingo  para  impedir  la  salida  de  la  Armada 
que  llevo  Panfilo  de  Narbaes ;  Carta  que 
Diego  Velazquez  escribio  al  Licenciado 
Figueroa  para  que  hiciese  relacion  a  sus 
magestades  de  lo  que  le  habia  fecho  Fer 
nando  Cortes;  Provanza  fecha  a  pedimento 
de  Juan  Ochoa  de  Lexalde  en  nombre  de 
Hernando  Cortes,  Capitan  General,  &c., 
sobre  las  diligencias  que  el  dicho  capitan 
hizo  para  no  se  perdiese  el  oro  e  joyas  de 
sus  Mag."  que  estaban  en  la  ciudad  de 
Temistitan ;  Instruccion  de  la  Audiencia 
de  la  Veracruz  a  los  procuradores  que 
envio  a  la  Corte ;  Petition  to  the  Em 
peror,  signed  by  544  soldiers  in  the  army  of 
Cortes,  requesting  that  the  latter  may  be 
continued  in  the  government  of  New 
Spain;  Carta  del  Licenciado  Ayllon  sobre 
la  armada  de  Velazquez,  4  de  marzo, 
1520;  Interrogatories  relative  to  disputes 
between  Velasquez  and  Cortes,  Oct.  4, 
1520;  Lo  que  paso  con  Cristobal  de  Tapia 
acerca  de  no  admitirle  por  governador  con 
los  Procuradores  de  Mexico  y  demas  pob- 
laciones  y  los  de  Cortes,  Dec.  1521  ;  Re- 
querimientos  para  que  no  fuese  [Cortes]  a 
Vera-Cruz,  donde  era  llegado  Cristobal  de 
Tapia,  por  Governador  de  Nueva  Espana, 
y  su  respuest-a,  Dec.  12,  1.521;  Requeri- 
miento  sobre  el  saqueo,  Aug.  14,  152.1; 
Instruccion  que  se  dio  al  Licenciado  Luis 
Ponce  de  Leon  para  la  pesquiza  de  Cortes ; 
Propuesta  de  Hernando  Cortes  para  seguir 
los  descubrimientos  por  el  Mar  del  Sur, 
July  14,  152,3;  Grant  of  lands  and  vas 
sals  to  Cortes,  July  6,  1529;  Letters 
granting  Cortes  the  title  of  Captain-General, 
April  i,  15295  Relacion  de  los  cargos  que 


resultan  de  la  pesquiza  secreta  contra  Don 
Hernando  Cortes  ;  Faculdad  real  para  fun- 
dar  moyorazgo,  July  27,  1529;  Cartas  de 
Hernan  Cortes  al  Emperador,  10  de  octubre, 
1530,  y  25  de  enero,  1531;  Minuta  del 
procurador  de  Cortes ;  Instruccion  que  da 
el  Marques  del  Valle  de  sus  servicios  y 
agravios  recibidos  en  Nueva  Espana  y 
mientras  su  conquista,  afio  de  1532;  Carta 
de  Hernan  Cortes  al  Emperador,  20  de 
abril,  1532;  Provision  sobre  los  descu 
brimientos  del  Sur;  1534;  Peticion  que 
dio  [Cortes]  contra  Don  Antonio  de  Men- 
doza,  virrey ;  Ultima  y  sentidisima  carta  de 
Cortes  al  Emperador,  3  de  feb.  1544; 
Testamento  de  Hernan  Cortes,  1 1  de  Oct. 
1547  ;  Document  relating  to  burial  of 
Cortes  and  removal  of  his  remains ;  Peti 
tion  addressed  to  the  Emperor  by  Indian 
chiefs  of  Tlacopan,  1552. 

— Documents  from  the    Collection  of  Mu- 
noK  :   Grant  of  Arms  to  Cortes,  March  7, 

1525  ;   Cedula  de  S.  M.  de  20  de  junio  de 

1526  a    Cortes    mandandole    vaya    a    las 
Yslas  de  Maluco  6  mande  ir  a  saber  de  las 
armadas  que  a  ellas  avian  ydo ;   Carta  diri- 
gida   al  obispo  de    Osma,    Fr.   Garcia    de 
Loaysa,  por  Hernan  Cortes  a  12  de  Enero 
de  i  527  ;  Relation  of  a  voyage  of  discovery 
by   Pedro  Nunez   Maldonada,   laid   before 
the  Audience  of  Mexico,  Jan.  23,    1529; 
Cedula  de   i°  de  abril   de   1529;  Merced 
de  titulo  de  Castilla  a  Cortes,  20  de  Julio 
de  1529  ;   Asiento  y  capitulacion  que  hizo 
con  el  Emperador  Don  Hernando  Cortes, 
a  27  de  oct.  de  1529,  para  el  descubrimi- 
ento,  conquista,  y  poblacion  de  las  Yslas 
y  tierras  del  mar  del  Sur  al  poniente  de  la 
Nueva    Espana  ;     Capitulo    de    carta    del 
Marques  del  Valle  escrita  al  Emperador, 
20  de   abril,    1532;    Instruccion   que   dio 
el    Marques    del    Valle,    afio    de    1532  ; 


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Bibliotheca   Americana. 


I  $22.  yet  been  discovered,  either  in  print  or  manuscript,  but 
,  the  existence  of  which  does  not  admit  of  doubt,  as  it  is 
mentioned  by  Peter  Martyr,  Gomara,  and  Cortes  him 
self,  we  must  notice  the  account  which  was  sent  together 
with  that  lost  document,  viz. : 

Relation  del  Descubrimiento  y  Conquista  de  la  Nueva 
Espana,  hecha  por  la  Justicia  y  Regimiento  de  la  nueva 
ciudad  de  la  P rera-Cruz,  Julio  10,  1519- 

This  was  published  for  the  first  time  in  the  N.  S.  S. 
Co/eccion1",  and  republished  by  Vedia1". 


a  Diego  Hurtado  de  Mendoza  para  el 
viage  que  devia  hacer  al  descubrimiento 
del  Mar  del  Sur;  Instruccion  que  dio  el 
Marques  del  Valle  a  Juan  de  Avellaneda, 
Jorge  Ceron,  y  Juan  Galvarro  de  la  rela- 
cion  que  avian  de  hacer  a  S.  M.  del  des 
cubrimiento  del  Mar  del  Sur,  &c. ;  Relacion 
del  armada  del  Marques  del  Valle  capi- 
taneada  dc  Francisco  de  Ulloa  que  salio  del 
puerto  de  Acapulco  y  descubrio  el  rio  de 
Culata ;  Memorial  que  presento  en  el  con- 
sejo  real  de  las  Indias  Nuno  de  Guzman 
en  20  de  marzo  de  15405  Memorial  que 
dio  al  Rey  el  Marques  del  Valle  en  Mad 
rid  a  25  de  junio  de  1540  sobre  agravios 
que  le  havia  hecho  el  Virrey  de  Nueva 
Espana;  Memorial  de  Don  Antonio  Ve 
lazquez  de  Bazan  acerca  de  la  merced  que 
pide  a  S.  M. ;  Memorial  de  Cortes  al  Em- 
perador  de  la  ciudad  de  Tezcuco,  10  de 
octubre,  1530;  Apuntamiento  original  de 
Cortes;  Relacion  de  Nuno  de  Guzman, 
en  Omitlan  a  8  de  Julio,  1530;  Relacion 
que  dio  Pedro  de  Carranza  de  la  Jornada 
de  N.  de  Guzman ;  Memorial  de  Juan  de 
Villanueva  en  nombre  de  Cortes  sobre  lo 
que  empleo  y  gasto  para  el  descubrimiento 
de  la  especeria,  &c. ;  Carta  de  Cortes  al 
Emperador,  25  de  enero,  1531  ;  Memorial 
de  Juan  de  Villanueva  en  nombre  de 
Cortes,  haciendo  saber  como  N.  de  Guz 
man  llevo  en  grilles  el  Cazonci ;  Royal 
mandate  forbidding  Cortes  to  approach 
within  ten  leagues  of  the  city  of  Mexico, 
March  22,  1530;  Letter  of  N.  de  Guzman 
to  the  Council,  accusing  Cortes  of  cruelty 
to  the  Indians,  &c.,  June  7,  1535;  Carta 
de  Cortes  al  Emperador,  20  de  abril,  1532; 
Carta  de  Cortes  a  la  Audiencia  de  Nueva 
Espana,  25  de  enero,  1533  ;  Carta  de  Cor 


tes  al  Emperador,  25  de  enero,  1533;  Carta 
de  Cortes  a  la  Audiencia  de  Nuevo  Espana, 
10  de  feb.  1533;  Relaciones  de  Don  Fer 
nando  de  Alva  Ixtlilxochitl  (extracted  from 
Vol.  iv.  of  the  Memorias  de  Nueva  Espana). 

— From  the  Collections  of  Mufloz  and 
Na-varrctc  :  Fragmentos  de  historia  de 
Nueva  Espana.  (Historia  de  Tlascala  por 
Diego  Munoz  Camargo.)  Capitulos  de  la 
Cronica  Mexicana  de  Tezozomoc ;  Rela 
cion  de  los  descubrimientos  que  se  han 
hecho  desde  el  ano  de  1492  hasta  el  de 
1545  por  los  Espanoles  ;  Instruccion  que 
dio  el  capitan  Diego  Velazquez  en  la  Isla 
Fernandina,  en  23  de  octubre  de  1518,  al 
capitan  Hernando  Cortes ;  Memorial  que 
presento  al  Rey  Benito  Martinez  en  nom 
bre  del  Adelantado  Diego  Velazquez,  15195 
Parecer  que  dio  el  Licenciado  Ayllon  al 
Adelantado  Diego  Velazquez  sobre  el  ar 
mada  que  habia  aprestado  para  embiar  con 
tra  Hernan  Cortes  ;  Dos  cartas  escritas  al 
Rey  por  el  Licenciado  Ayllon,  8  de  enero 
y  4  de  marzo  de  1520;  Titulo  de  Gober- 
nador  de  las  Islas  y  Tierras  que  descubriese 
en  el  Mar  del  Sur  expedido  por  S.  M.  al 
Marques  del  Valle,  5  de  nov.  1529;  Rela 
cion  del  viage  de  Fernando  de  Grijalva, 
ano  de  1536;  Relaciones  de  otras  viages; 
Relacion  de  los  conquistadores  y  descubri- 
dores  de  la  Nueva  Espana,  a  donde  fueron 
con  Hernando  Cortes,  Panfilo  de  Narvaez 
y  otros;  Venta  de  dos  navios  que  hizo  Juan 
Rodriguez  de  Villafuerte  al  Marques  del 
Valle,  4  de  nov.  1531. 

— Historia  de  los  Indies  de  Nueva  Espana 
por  Toribiode  Benavente  6  Motolinia. 

131  Colcccion  de  documentor  incditos  para  la 
historia  de  EspaKa  ;  Madrid,  410,  1842-65. 
Commenced  by  Navarrete,  and  continued 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  217 

We  then  find  the  Carta  A,  dated  Villa  Segura  de  la    1522. 

Frontera,  October  3Oth,  1520,  which  contained  a  chart 

of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  now  lost,  but  supposed  to  be 
the  original  of  the  map  in  the  Nuremberg  Latin  edi 
tion  of  1524.  The  first  edition  of  A  is  the  present 
No.  118  ;  the  second  edition,  which  we  call  B,  was  pub 
lished  at  Saragossa,  in  1523  (infra], 

A  was  followed  by  a  Carta  dated  Cuyocan,  May  I5th, 
1522,  which  was  printed  at  Seville  in  1523  (infra]. 
This,  which  we  call  C,  was  sent,  together  with  a  secret 
epistle,  to  the  Emperor  V.  The  latter  was  first  pub 
lished  in  the  N.  S.  S.  Coleccion1^,  and  republished  by 
Kingsborough124. 

The  next  is  a  Carta  dated  Temixtitan,  October 
1 5th,  1524,  printed  at  Toledo,  in  1525  (infra).  We 
call  this  D.  The  second  edition  of  D  was  printed  at 
Valencia  in  1526  (infra),  and  we  letter  it  E. 

D  was  sent,  together  with  a  secret  letter,  which  was 
published  for  the  first  time  by  Senor  Icazbalceta115. 

The  original  editions  seem  to  end  with  E.  The 
other  Carfas  are  all  modern  publications,  viz.  : 

Carta  de  relation,  dated  Temixtitan,  Sept.  3d,  I526126. 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Temixtitan,  Sept.  nth, 
I526127. 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Tezcucco,  October  loth, 
i53o'28 

Memorial  al  Emperador, ,  I539129. 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Feb.  3d, 


by  Miguel  Salva  and   P.  Sainz  y  Baranda,  ia«  ap.  N.  S.  S.  Coleccion,  Vol.  IV,  pp. 

Vol.  iv,  or  Vol.  i,  pp.  417-472  (effaced  8-167  ( ?),and  VEDiA,#rirtr/Wor«,  Vol.  I. 

memorandum,  which  we  have  no  means  1ST  ap.  N.  S.  S.   Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  pp. 

of  verifying).  14-13  ;    KINGSBOROUGH,  Antiquities,  Vol. 

12    Hiitoriadorei  primiti-vos   de    Indias ;  VIII. 

Madrid,  *  vols.,  8vo,  1853,  Vol.  i.  la8  ap.  N.  S.  S.   Coleccion,  Vol.  r,  pp. 

Vol.  i,  pp.  11-13.  S1^1;    and  KINGSBOROUGH,  Antiquities, 

184  Antiquities,  Vol.  VIII,  Vol.  VIII. 

126  Separately,  in  miniature  shape,  black  129  ap.  N.  S.  S.  Colcccion,  Vol.  iv,  pp. 

letter,  and   certainly  one  of  the  prettiest  201—6. 

typographical  curiosities  known.     Inserted  1SO  ap.  N.  S.  S.   Coleccion,  Vol.  i,  pp. 

also  in  this  gentleman's  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  41-47  ;    and  KINGSBOROUGH,    Antiquities, 

pp.  470-483.  Vol.  Tin, 

28 


2  1  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C22.        A,  C  and  D  were  republished  by  Barcia131,  Loren- 
,zana'5Z,  and  Vedia133. 

The  translations  are,  in  Latin  : 

A,  Nuremberg,   1524  (infra),  Cologne,    1532  (infra), 
and  theNovus  Or  bis  of  1555  and  1616. 

C,  Nuremberg,  1524  (infra),  Cologne,  1532,  and  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  I555'34  and  1616. 

In  Italian  : 

A,  Venice,  1524,  by  B.  de  Viano  (infra),  Venice,  1524; 
by  A.  de  Nicolini  (infra),  and  in  Ramusio135,  together 
with  C  and  D. 

There  is  an  abstract  of  A  in  the  following  No.  19. 

In  French  : 

A,  C  and  D  (erroneously  called  first,  second  and  third 
accounts),  in  Flavigny's  Correspondance1^,  from  Loren- 
zana's  text,  abridged. 

There  is  an  epitome  of  A  and  C  also  in  French,  but 
from  the  Latin,  Paris,  I532137,  (infra). 

In  English  : 

A,  Philadelphia,  1817-18  ;138  A,  C  and  D,  New  York, 


In  German  : 

A  and  C,  Augsburg,  1550  (infra),  according  to  Bru- 


131 


1  Historiadorcs primitives  dc  las  Indias;  tales.     Histoirc  traduite  de  languc  Espagnole 

Madrid,  fol.,   1749,  Vol.    I    (inaccurately  par  Guillaume  k  Breton  Nivernois ,•    Paris, 

with  divisions  into  chapters  and  headings,  izmo,   1588   (Privat.  libr.,  Providence)  is 

not  in  the  original).  only  an  abridgement  of  OVIEDO  and   the 

132  Historia  de  Nue-va  Espana  ;  Mexico,  second  part  of  GOMARA. 

fol.,  1770  (from  Barcia's  texts,  with  omis-  138  In  the  Port-folio,  by  Mr.   Alsop,  of 

sions),  and  in  the  reprint,  New  York,  8vo,  Middletown,    Connecticut,    who    recom- 

1828  (which  contains  in  addition  an  intro-  mends  the  work  at  once  to  the  confiding 

duction  by  Mr.  Robert  Sands).  care  of  the  learned. 

133  loc  cit.,  Vol.  I.  139  Dispatches  of  Hernando    Cortes,  8vo. 

134  pp_  ^6-677.  The  Pleasant  Historic  of  the  conquest  of  the 
133  Raccolta,  Vol.  ill,  foil.  225-296,  seq.  West  India,  noiv  called  New  Spaine.     At- 
138  Paris,    8vo,    sine    anno    (1778);    id.,  cAie-v ed  by  the  most  worthy  Prince  Hernan- 

"  En  Suisse,"  8vo,  1779.  do  Cortes.     Translated  by  T.  [homas]  N. 

137  Printed   by  Simon   de  Colines ;   fol.,  [icholas]  ;   London,  410,  I  596,  mentioned 

15Stse?'    The  Voyages  et  conqucsta  du  Capi-  by  Graesse   under  the    head    of  Cortes,   is 

taine  Fernando   Courtois,  es  Indes  Occiden-  only  a  translation  from  GOMARA. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  219 

net'40:    "  d'apres  la  version  latine  de  Savorgnanus,  par    I  $2 2, 
Andre   Diether,   maitre  de  langue  latine  a  Augsbourg  ——_—--. 
(vers    1534),   in-fol."     A,  C  and  D,  by  Stapfer141  and 
Koppe142. 

In  Dutch : 

A,  C  and  D,  Amsterdam,  lySo143. 

I  n  Flemish : 

A  and  C,  from  Diether's  German  version,  by  Cor 
nelius  Ablijn144. 

Our  readers  doubtless  recollect  that  Hernando  Cortes 
died  of  an  indigestion  in  a  village  near  Seville  (Castil- 
leja  de  la  Cuesta),  December  2d,  1547,  not  "dans  la 
misere,"  as  we  see  it  frequently  stated,  but  very  rich.  It 
is  known  that  his  body  was  first  transferred  to  the  family 
vault  of  the  Duke  de  Medina-Sidonia,  in  Seville  ;  from 
which  it  was  removed,  in  1562,  and  sent  to  the  monas 
tery  of  St.  Francis,  in  Tezcuco,  but  exhumed  in 
1629,  to  be  interred  in  the  convent  of  St.  Francis,  in 
the  city  of  Mexico,  and  again  disturbed  in  1794'^,  when 
it  was  deposited  in  a  tomb  prepared  in  the  celebrated 
Hospital  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  (C  Unfortunately  for 
Mexico,"  Prescott  says146,  cc  the  tale  does  not  stop  here. 
In  1823  the  patriot  mob  of  the  capital,  in  their  zeal  to 
commemorate  the  era  of  the  national  independence,  and 
their  detestation  of  the  f  old  Spaniards,'  prepared  to 


140  Manuel,  Vol.   II,  col.    312.      If  the  144  Die  Nicutue  Wcertlt ;  Antwerp,  fol., 
above  quotation  is  intended  to  convey  the  1563.  (Privat.  libr.,  Providence), 
impression    that  Diether   taught    Latin    at  145  ALAMAN,  Discrtacioncs,  Vol.  II,  pp. 
Augsburg  towards  1534,  we  can  find  noth-  50-62,  and  Appendix  2,  pp.  50—98. 

ing  to  the  contrary ;   but  if  it  refers  to  an  "   Hist,  of  Mexico,  Vol.   in,  p.    350. 

edition  of  1534,  we  apprehend  that  there  It  is  curious  to  notice  how  frequently  the 

is  an  error  in  the  date,  as  we  cannot  find  graves  of  men  who  deserved  well  of  their 

any  traces  of  a  version  by  Diether  of  about  country  have  been  desecrated  or  disturbed, 

1534.  especially  in  modern  times.      The  ashes  of 

141  Die  Eroberung  von  Mexico,  in  Bricfcn  Boccacio,  Petrarch,  Voltaire,  J.  J.  Rous- 
an  Carl  V ;  Heidelberg,  2  vols.,  8 vo,  1779;  seau,    Ben  Jonson,    even,  have  not  been 
id.y  Bern,  1793  (probably  from  FLAVIGNY'SJ  permitted  to  rest  in  peace.    (See  AGOSTINI, 
see  MEUSEL,  Vol.  in,  Pt.  I,  p.  270).  Scritt.  Venez.,  Vol.  I,  p.  301  ;   BALDELLI, 

145  Berlin,  I  vol.,  8vo,  1834.  del  Petrarca,  p.  169,  cited   by  LIBRI,  His- 

43  Brie-ven  -von  Keizer  Karl  V,  z  vols.,  toire  des   Sciences   mathimatiqucs   en   Italic, 

8vo.  Vol.  n,  p.  258,  of  the  wretched  Halle  re- 


220  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

break  open  the  tomb  which  held  the  ashes  of  Cortes, 
and  to  scatter  them  to  the  winds !  The  authorities 
declined  to  interfere  on  the  occasion ;  but  the  friends  of 
the  family,  as  is  commonly  reported,  entered  the  vault 
by  night,  and,  secretly  removing  the  relics,  prevented 
the  commission  of  a  sacrilege  which  must  have  left  a 
stain  not  easily  effaced,"  &c.,  &c. 

Humboldt  asserts147  that  he  had  "  vu  a  Mexico,  dans 
le  cabinet  du  capitaine  D  *  *  *,  une  cote  du  corps  de 
Fernand  Cortez  que  pendant  la  translation  des  ossemens 
a  la  nouvelle  chapelle  dans  1'hospital  de  Los  Naturales 
on  avait  enlevee"  but  what  has  become  of  the  rest  of  the 
body  ?  Mr.  Charton  states148,  with  no  little  emphasis : 

"  Ce  que  n'a  point  dit  1'eminent  historien  du  Mexique,  nous 
sommes  en  mesure  de  1'affirmer  aujourd'hui :  les  restes  de  Cortez  sont 
en  Italic,  dans  les  domaines  du  due  de  Terra-Nova-Monteleone,  der 
nier  descendant  par  les  femmes  du  celebre  conquerant148." 

We  have  taken  pains  to  inquire  from  several  residents 
of  the  city  of  Mexico.  Sefior  Icazbalceta,  whose  author 
ity  no  one  will  think  of  questioning,  writes  to  us  as 
follows  : 

"  Le  lieu  de  la  sepulture  actuelle  de  Cortes  est  enveloppe  de  mys- 
tere.  D.  Lucas  Alaman  a  raconte  1'histoire  des  restes  de  ce  grand 
homme.  Sans  le  dire  positivement,  il  fait  entendre  qu'ils  sont  passes 
en  Italic :  '  El  Conde  D.  Fernando  Lucchesi,  que  estaba  en  Mexico 
(1823)  como  apoderado  del  senor  duque  de  Terranova,  dispuso  de  la 
caja  con  los  buesos,  que  provisionalmente  se  deposito  bajo  la  tarima  del 
altar  de  Jesus.'  On  croit  generalement  que  le  corps  de  Cortes  est  a 
Palerme.  Mais  plusieurs  personnes  s'obstinent  a  dire  qu'il  est 
encore  Mexico,  cache  dans  quelque  endroit  completement  ignore. 
Malgre  1'amitie  dont  M.  Alaman  m'honorait,  je  ne  pus  jamais  obtenir 
de  lui  une  declaration  explicite  sur  ce  fait ;  il  trouvait  toujours 
moyen  d'en  detourner  la  conversation." 


print;   and  the  curious  correspondence  in  descended   to  a  female,  and   by  her  mar- 

L* Intermedieire,  for  April,  1864.  riage  were  united  with  those  of  the  house 

47  Examen   Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  15,  n.  of  Terranova,  descendants  of  the  'Great 

148  Voyagturs  ancient  et  modernes ;  Paris,  Captain,'    Gonsalvo    de    Cordova.       By  a 
8vo,  1861,  Vol.  in  (an  excellent  work).  subsequent  marriage  they  were  carried  into 

149  "  The  male  line  of  the  marquesses  the  family  of  the  Duke  of  Monteleone,  a 
of    the    Valley    became    extinct    in    the  Neapolitan   noble."      PRESCOTT,  loc.  cit.t 
fourth  generation.     The  title  and  estates  p.  352. 


Bibliothcca  Americana. 

Direct  references:  f  MEUSEL,    Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  267.  I  C  2  2< 

-j    TERNAUX,  Bibliotheque  Americaine,  No.  25.  -^ 

j    Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  1307.  ^^ " 

Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  165. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  11,  No.  34. 
Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  83. 
Li-vres  Curieux,  page  26,  No.  125. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  310. 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  5323. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  u,  page  277  (for  the  erroneous  statement  that  the 
work  contains  only  fourteen  leaves). 


I  I  Q.     ANONYMOUS— Within  an  engraved  border: 

Noue  de  le  Ifole  &  Terra  fer||ma  Nou- 
amente  trouate  ||  In  India  per  el  Capi  || 
taneo  de  larmata  de  la  Cefarea  ||  Maief- 
tate.  || 

Colophon : 

C  Cautum  eft  a  principe  ne  quis  preter 
Caluum  intra  annum  ||  Imprimat  :  sub 
pena  ducatorum  centum.  || 

Verso  of  the  title-page  : 

Andrea    caluo    ad    Paulo    uerrano  ||  & 

Abramo  Taffio/  || 

Mediolani  decimofexto   cale.      Decembris 
M.D.XXII.* 

*„.*  410,  title  one  leaf-|-  five  unnumbered  leaves,  the  verso  of  the 
last  of  which  is  blank. 

(British  Museum.) 

Brief  abstract  of  Cortes'  second  account  (No.  118). 

Direct  reference  :   Bibliotheca  Gren-vi/liana,  page  1 66. 

Anglice:  News  of  the  Islands  and  Con-  no  one  except  Calvo  may  print  this  with- 

tinent  recently  discovered  in   India  by  the  in  a  year,  under  penalty  of  one  hundred 

captain  of  the  fleet  of  His  Imperial  Ma-  ducats.    Milan,  i6th  kalend.     December, 

jesty.     It  is  cautioned  by  the  Prince  that  1522. 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1523.  I  2O.     CORTES  (FERNANDO}—  Under  a  woodcut  representing  the 

—  Emperor  Charles  V  seated  on  the  throne,  and  surrounded  by  his  Court  : 


it  *  ISmperatror 

II 


'  nueftro  Mor  por  el  (Eapttan 
general  ||  trela  nueua  IBfpaila:  llamatro  jfernantro 
eortes.  IBnla  pal  fate  re-  1|  lacur  trelas  tierras  g 
prouinctas  fiu  eueto  pe  ija  trefcuirierto  nueua-  1| 
mete  enel  gucata  tiel  ano  tre.  xix.  a  efta  parte  :  g  ija 
fometttro  ala  eoro  ||  na  real  tie  fit.  g.  majeftatr.  IBn 
efpeeial  fa^e  relacion  tre  bna  gratiiffi-  1|  ma  puincia 
mug  rtca  llamatra  (Eulua  :  enla  ql  ag  mug  graties 
etutra-  litres  g  tie  marauillofois  etiifictois:  g  tie  gratres 
tratos  g  rtpeiag.  iEntre  ||  las  5^^  ag  ^«^  ^^s 
marautllofa  g  rtea  q  totras  llamatra  ^emixtita  :  ||  5 
eftapor  marautllofa  arte  etiificatra  foto  bna  grantre 
laguna:  tiela  ||  ql  etutiati  g  proulcia  es  reg  bn  gra= 
trtffimo  fenor  llamatro  Jifluteecu-  1|  ma  :  trotre  le 
aeaefcierc  al  eaptta  g  alos  iEfpanoles  efpatofas 
eofas  tie  ||  ogr.  OTuenta  largamente  trel  gratriffimo 
fenorio  trel  trteijo  Hfluteecu  II  ma  g  tre  fus  rttos  g 
eerimonias  :  g  tre  ecmo  fe  firue.  1  1 

Colophon  : 

C  Ha  prefente  earta  tre  relacion  fue  impreffa  en= 
la  mug  notle  ||  r  mug  leal  etutratr  tre  ^aragofa  : 
por  (George  Otoci  Eleman.  ||  E.  b.  trias  tre  IBnero. 
jlwi  tre 


*  Anglke  :    This    Epistolary   Relation     of  Saragossa,  by  George  Coci,  a  German, 
was  printed  in  the  very  noble  and  loyal  city     Jan.  5th,  1523.     The  rest  as  in  No.  118. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  223 

*£*  Folio,  twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title, 
which  contains  on  the  verso  another  woodcut,  representing  the 
setting  out  of  Cortes,  followed  by  the  beginning  of  the  text. 

(  D» j  (Private  Library,  Providence.) 

Second  edition  of  A  (No.  118). 

Direct  references:  C  Bibliotkeca  Hebcriana,  Part  vn,  No.  1884. 
Bibliotheca  Greavilliana,  page  166. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page   12,  No.  36. 
Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  84. 
TERNA-JX,  No.  2.7. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  311. 


121.    CORTES  (FERNANDO)—  Under  the  same  woodcut  as  in  No.  1 1 8. 

Cut trt  tec?™  fa  r*- 
:  *  mbtdfta  pm*  /irna  n 

tro  cortex  capitan  r  jufttcia  magor  trel  gucatan  (la- 
matrn  la  nueua  efpana||trel  mat  oceano:  al  mug 
alto  g  potentiffuno  cefar  r  tutctifftma  Mot  tro  || 
OTarlois  emperatror  femper  augufto  g  teg  tre  efpana 
nueftto  feilot:  trelaisllcofas  fucetutras  r  mug  trignas 
tre  atnnitacton  enla  conptfta  g  tecupe- 1|  tacion  trela 
mug  gtantre  r  matauillofa  ciutratr  tre  ^emwtitan : 
g  trelas  II  otras  ptouinciasi  a  ella  futjetag  que  fe 
teBelaton.  ?Bnla  pal  ciutratr  r  t»i  II  djas  ptoutncias 
el  tiidjo  capitan  g  efpanoles  conftguieton  gtantres 
g  fe  ||  nalatras  btctotiag  trignas  tre  petpetua  me^ 
motia.  Efft  mefmo  ija^e  tela-||cion  como  ija  trefcu- 
ijietto  el  mat  trel  g>wt :  r  ottas  mudjas  r  gtatres 
pto- 1|  uinciag  mug  ttcas  tre  mtnas  tre  oto  :  g  pets 
lag :  g  pietrtas  ptectofag :  r  abn  ||  ttenen  nottcta  pe 
ag  efpecteta.  || 


224  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1523.         Colophon  : 

=  C  tla  jSfente  carta  5  telacw  tut  itnpreffa  e la  mug 
notie  r  mug  leal  ciuttatr  fl  feuilla  pot  ||  Jacoto  tw? 
terger  alema :  acatofe  a.  m:.  Irtas  ire  mat^o  :  ano 
5  mill  r  quhwtcs  r.  mij.  ||* 

*sk*  Folio  (signatures  a,  b,  c,  in  eights,  d  in  six)  ;  thirty  unnum 
bered  leaves,  including  the  title,  on  the  verso  of  which  the 
text  begins  ;  forty-eight  lines  in  a  full  page. 


(C.) 


(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


Third   account,    from   October  joth,    1520,   to  May 

1522. 

Direct  references:  f  MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  268. 
-{    PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vu,  page  122,,  No.  19. 
j    Bibliotheca  Heberiana.  Part  vn,  No.  1884 
Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  page  166. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page   12,  No.  35. 
Ste-veni  American  Bibliographer,  page  84. 
Livres  Curieux,  page  27,  No.  127. 
RICH,  No.  5. 
TERNAUX,  No.  26. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  311. 


122.     MAXIMILIAN  OF  TRANSYLVANIA— Within   an    orna 
mented  border  containing  nude  figures  : 

DE  MOLVCCIS  IN  \\Julis y  itemq ;  alijs  pluribus  miradis, 
qu<£  \\nouiflima  Caftellanorum  nauigatio  Se- \\renifs.  Im- 
pera forts  Caroli  .  V  .  aujpicis  \\  fufcepta,  nuper  inuenit  : 
Maximiliani  \\  Tranfyluani  ad  Reuerendijs.  Cardina-  ||  lem 
Saltzburgenfem  epiftola  lettu  per-  \\  quam  iucunda.  \\ 

*  Anglice:  Third  Epistolary  Relation  and  recovery  of  the  very  great  and  won- 
sent  by  Fernando  Cortes,  Captain  and  drous  city  of  Temixtitan ;  and  of  the  other 
Chief  Justice  of  Yucatan,  called  New  provinces  subjected  to  it  which  had  re- 
Spain  of  the  Oceanic  Sea,  to  the  most  volted.  In  which  city  and  said  provinces 
high  and  mighty  Cassar  and  invincible  the  said  captain  and  Spaniards  obtained 
Lord  Don  Charles,  Emperor  ever  august,  great  and  signal  victories  worthy  of  per- 
and  King  of  Spain  our  Lord,  concerning  petual  remembrance.  There  is  also  an 
the  things  which  have  happened  and  are  account  how  he  discovered  the  South  Sea, 
worthy  of  admiration  in  the  conquest  and  many  other  and  large  provinces,  very 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  225 

Verso  of  the  last  leaf:  I  §  2  3 , 

Datum  Vallifoleti  die  XXIIII  Ottobris  M.D.XXIL 
Colonize  in   <edibus   Eucharii    Ceruicorni.      Anno    uir-\\ 
ginei  par t us  .  M .  D  .  XXI I  I .  menfe  ||  lanuario* 

£*£  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves;  text  be 
gins  on  the  verso  of  the  title-page.  In  the  border,  under 
nude  figures,  %dpiTes  (/.  e.,  the  Graces). 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  familiar  with  the  eventful 
life  of  Fernando  de  Magalhaes,  Magalhanes,  Maga- 
glianes  or  Magallanes,  usually  called  Magellan.  Born 
either  at  Porto1,  Lisbon2,  Villa  de  Sabrosa3,  or  at  Villa 
de  Figuiero4,  of  an  aristocratic  family,  date  unknown, 
this  great  navigator,  when  yet  young,  joined  the  expe 
dition  of  Francisco  de  Almeida  to  Quiloa  in  1505*,  and 
afterwards  that  of  Albuquerque  against  Malacca.  He 
then  fought  in  Africa,  where  he  received  a  wound  in  the 
knee,  which  rendered  him  lame  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 
His  knowledge  of  the  Moluccas  was  derived  from  a 
sojourn  of  five6  or  seven7  years  in  the  East  Indies. 

When  Magellan  returned  to  Lisbon,  he  gained  access 
to  the  archives  of  the  crown,  and  ascertained  that  the 
Moluccas  were  situated  within  the  hemisphere  allotted 


rich   in    gold   mines,   pearls    and   precious          *  ARGENSOLA,  Conquista  de  las  is/as  Ma- 

stones;  and  contains  also  a  notice  to  the  lucas ;    Madrid,    fol.,-i6o9,  lib.  i,  p.   6; 

effect  that  there  are  spices.  Anales  de  Aragon,  lib.  I,  cap.  13,  p.  133. 

The    present    Epistolary    Account    was          a  A.  DE  SAN  ROMAN,  Historia  gen.  de 

printed  in  the  very  noble  and  loyal  city  of  la  India  Orient.,  lib.  2,  cap.  25,  p.  341. 
Seville,  by  Jacob  Cromberger,  a  German.          8  Private  documents  furnished  M.  Denis, 

Finished,  March  3Oth,  1523.  in  CHARTON,  Voyagcurs  ancient  et  modernes, 

*  Anglice  :  An  epistle  of  pleasant  read-  Vol.  ill,  p.  424. 

ing,  by  Maximilian  of  Transylvania  to  the          4  Nobiliario  da  Ca-za  do   Cazal,  MS.,  in 

most  reverend  Cardinal  of  Salzburg,  con-  Nou-v.  Biogr.  Generate,  Vol.  32,  p.  672.. 
cerning   the    Molucca  Islands,   and  some          5  FARIA    Y    SOUZA,    Asia     Portugueza, 

other   wonderful  things,  which   have   re-  Vol.  i,  Part  I,  cap.  8  ;  M.  DE  LA  PUENTE, 

cently   been    discovered    during   the  latest  Compendia  di  las  Historias  de  los  Descubri- 

voyage  of  the  Spaniards,  undertaken  under  mientos;  Madrid,  fol.,  1 68 1, lib.  II T,  p.  151. 
the  auspices  of  the  most  Serene  Emperor         6  PETER    MARTYR,    Opus    efist.,    epist. 

Charles  V.  767. 

Cologne,  in  the   establishment  of  Eu-  '    T  GOMARA,  Historia  de  las  Indias,  cap. 

charius  Cervicornus,  January,  A.  D.  1523.  91,  p.  83. 


226 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


1 523.  to  Spain  by  the  famous  Bull  of  Demarcation8.  Vain9, 
or  perhaps  simply  conscious  of  his  superiority  (a  legiti 
mate  feeling,  which  superficial  observers  are  apt  to  mis 
take  for  vanity),  Magellan  resented  the  unjust  treat 
ment  which  he  had  received  at  the  hands  of  the  king, 
in  consequence  of  complaints  urged  by  the  inhabitants 
of  Azamor  against  the  officers  in  command  at  the  time 
of  the  campaign  in  Africa10.  He  therefore  determined 
to  remove  to  Spain,  and,  in  company  with  the  two 
Faleiros  (RuyJI  and  Francisco)  and  Christovam  de 
Harolz,  left  Portugal ;  and,  for  a  good  cause,  as  it 
seems1',  openly  renounced  allegiance  to  his  native  coun 
try.  In  October,  1517,  or  151 8'4,  he  offered  his  services 
to  Charles  V.  Informed,  perhaps,  by  de  Haroly,  of  the 
existence  of  the  Southern  Straits,  or  having  derived  his 
information  from  a  supposed  map  of  Martin  Behaim16, 
or,  more  probably,  sharing  the  opinion,  conjecture,  or 
hope,  entertained  by  all  navigators17  at  the  time,  he  pro- 


8  See  supra,  p.  10,  note  70.  There  is 
a  quaint  French  translation,  abridged,  of 
this  Papal  Bull  in  Lib.  n  of  LA  POPELLI- 
NIERE,  Les  trots  Mondes;  Paris,  8vo,  1582, 
map.  It  is  also  inserted  in  the  continua 
tion  of  BARONIUS'  Annales  by  Bzovius ; 
Rome,  fol.,  1652,  Vol.  xix. 

*  MAFFEI,  Historiarum  indicarum ;  Co 
logne,  fol.,  1589,  Lib.  vin. 

10  BARROS,  Decadas  da  Asia,  Decad.  11, 
lib.  n,  cap.  19;  Decad.  in,  lib.  5,  cap.  8  ; 
OSORIO,  The  History  of  the  Portuguese  dur 
ing  the  reign  of  Emanuel,  translated  by  J. 
Gibbs;  London,  8vo,  1752,  Book  ix. 

11  This  unfortunate  Ruy  Faleiro,   who 
perhaps  originated  the  project  and  supplied 
Magellan  with  four  methods  to  determine 
the   longitude,   which   were   suggested    to 
him  by  a  "  Demonio  familiar"  was  refused 
a  command,  notwithstanding  the  conven 
tion    of  Valladolid,    and   soon    afterwards 
became  insane.     It  was  his  brother  Fran 
cisco   who  wrote  the  rarissime  Tratado  de 
la  Esfera,  ascribed  to  Ruy  by  Humboldt 
(Cosmos,  Vol.  ir,  p.  672,  note),  and  sup 
posed  by  Leon  Pinelo  (Epitome,  p.  143), 
and  Antonio  (Bib.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  I,  p. 
423),  to  have   been  printed  at  Seville,  in 


1535.  (See,  concerning  Ruy  Faleiro  or 
Falero,  OVIEDO,  Hist.  gen.  de  las  Indias, 
Lib.  xx,  cap.  i  ;  HERRERA,  loc.  cit.,  Dec. 
n,  lib.  n,  cap.  19,  p.  52;  ARGENSOLA, 
Anales  de  Aragon,  lib.  r,  p.  740  ;  NAVAR- 
RETE,  Disertacion,  p.  148,  and  Coleccion, 
—  Pruebas,  No.  XI,  p.  LXXVII,  Vol.  IV.) 

12  See  supra,  p.  173,  note  3. 

13  FARIA  Y  SOUZA,  Comentarios  a  la  Lu- 
siada  de  Camocs  ;   Madrid,  fol.,  1639,  55th 
canto,  cited  by  Navarrete,  in  his  excellent 
introduction  to  the  documents  concerning 
Magellan,  in  his  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv. 

14  HERRERA,  loc.  cit. 

15  See  supra,  p.  175. 

18  "  II  capitano  generale  che  sapeva  de 
dover  fare  la  sua  navigazione  per  un  streto 
molto  ascoso,  como  vite  ne  la  thesoriaria 
del  re  de  Portugal  in  una  carta  fata  per 
quello  excelendssimo  huomo  Martin  de 
Boemia,  mendo  due  navi,  &c."  PIGA- 
FETTA  (Amoretti's  edit.  p.  36) ;  see  also 
CHAUVETON,  supra,  p.  38,  note  2;  RAMU- 
sio,  Vol.  i,  fol.,  354,  and  DE  MURR,  Hist. 
Diplomat.,  where  all  assertions  concerning 
the  claims  of  Behaim  are  discussed. 

17  As  early  as  1501,  Vespuccius  pro 
posed  to  double  the  extremity  of  the 


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posed  to  the  Emperor  to  reach  the  Moluccas  by  a  new  and 
shorter  route18,  and  informed  him  of  his  rights  to  those 
islands.  Notwithstanding  the  remonstrances  of  Alvaro 
da  Costa,  the  Portuguese  Embassador,  and  threats  to 
murder  Magellan19,  Charles  V  signed,  at  Valladolid, 
March  22dzo,  1518,  the  stipulation  whereby  Magellan 
was  at  last  enabled  to  sail,  on  the  morning  of  Monday, 
August  loth,  1519,  from  San  Lucar  de  Barrameda.  The 
fleet  was  composed  of  the  Trinidad  (flag-ship),  the  San  An 
tonio ,  the  Conception,  the  Santiago  and  the  famous  Victoria. 
Estavam  Gomez21  also  joined  the  expedition,  but  returned 
to  Seville,  May  6th,  1521,  without  having  witnessed 
the  accomplishment  of  this  great  undertaking.  The 
expedition  consisted,  in  all,  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-five 
individuals,  whose  names  have  been  preserved.  Among 
them  we  notice  a  native  of  Bristol,  "  Maestre  Andres 
Condestable."  The  fleet  sailed  by  the  Canaries  and 
Cape  de  Verde,  reaching,  December  I3th,  1519,  what 
is  now  called  Rio  de  Janeiro.  After  great  delays,  and 
several  revolts,  all  much  more  authentic  and  bloody 
than  those  ascribed  to  the  crews  on  board  Columbus' 
vessel",  Magellan  doubled,  October  i8th,  1520,  the 
cape  of  Las  Virgines,  issuing  out  of  the  Strait,  on  the 


Southern  Hemisphere;  and  in  November, 
1514,  orders  were  given  to  Pedrarias  Davila 
and  Juan  Diaz  de  Solis  to  fit  out  an  expe 
dition  with  the  view  of  finding  an  opening : 
"  abertura  de  la  tierra."  See  Documents 
in  NAVARRETE,  Vol.  in,  pp.  134  and  357; 
LELEWEL,  Giogr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  n, 
p.  164,  note  336;  HUMBOLDT,  Examcn 
Critique,  Vol.  I,  pp.  320  and  350,  Vol.  II, 
p.  19  ;  Cosmos,  Vol.  II,  p.  646,  note. 
8  OVIEDO,  he.  cit.,  Lib.  xx,  cap.  i. 

19  FARIA  Y  SOUZA,  Europa  fortuguesa ; 
Lisbon,   3  vols.,  8vo,   1678-80,   Vol.   n, 
Part  n,  cap.  i,  p.  543. 

20  NAVARRETE,  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv.  Doc. 
in. 

**  This  astute  Portuguese  navigator  was 
afterwards  sent  by  Charles  V.  in  search  of 
a  north-west  passage,  and  in  1524  fol 
lowed  our  coasts  from  Florida  to  Rhode 


Island,  and  perhaps  as  far  north  as  Cape 
Cod.  A  well-known  writer  on  the  history 
of  the  United  States,  whose  fawning  work 
it  is  fashionable  to  purchase,  but  impossible 
to  read  through,  is  of  opinion  that  there  is 
in  existence  a  printed  account  by  Gomez 
himself,  of  his  curious  voyage.  It  is  scarcely 
necessary  to  say  that  such  an  account  does 
not  exist.  (See,  concerning  Gomez,  BAR- 
BOSA  MACHADO,  Bibliotheca  Lusitana,  Vol. 
II,  p.  669  ;  NAVARRETE,  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv, 
Prueba  XIV;  and  especially  Diego  Ribero's 
map  in  Kohl's  Altaten  Gcneral-Kartcn  von 
Amerika  ausgef.  in  d.  J.  1527-1529,  auf 
Befehl  K.  Karl's  V,  where,  under  the 
designation  of  ticrras  de  Estavam  Gomez, 
his  route  coastwise  may  be  traced.  "Many 
codfish  and  no  gold,"  says  the  inscription.) 
92  MAXIM.  TRANSYLV.,  Efist.  in  Novui 
Orbis  of  1537,  p.  591. 


228  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

If 23.  Pacific  side,  after  twenty-two  days23,  or  on  November 
27th,  and  commenced  sailing  on  that  noble  sea,  which 
he  himself  named  Oceano  Pacified1"1.  We  scarcely  need 
remind  our  readers  that  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
Pacific  had  been  already  navigated,  but  farther  north, 
as  early  as  1513,  by  Alonso  Martin  de  Don  Benito. 

Taking  possession  of  several  islands,  where  he  com 
mitted  a  series  of  political  blunders,  Magellan  engaged 
in  a  war  with  the  natives  of  the  small  island  of  Matan 
(one  of  the  Philippines),  where  he  was  killed,  Saturday, 
April  27th,  1521.  The  Victoria^  under  the  command 
of  Miguel25  or  Juan  Sebastian  Del  Cano,  was  the  only 
vessel  which,  of  those  that  had  crossed  the  Straits, 
returned  safely  to  Spain26;  landing  at  Seville  Monday, 
September  8th,  1522,  with  a  crew  of  eighteen  men  all 
told,  but  entitled  to  the  honor  of  having  first  circum 
navigated  the  world. 

As  the  fact  that  the  Strait  bears  the  name  of  its  first 
explorer  might  lead  some  critics  to  infer  that  Magellan 
originated  this  appellation,  we  must  say  that  he  only 
called  it  Estrecho  Patagonico,  and  afterwards  Estrecho  de 
la  Victoria*'1 '. 

The  account,  journal,  or  ephemerides  which,  accord 
ing  to  Antonio28  and  Barbosa29,  was  written  by  Magellan, 
and  which  seems  to  have  been  in  existence  as  late  as 
1783,  are  lost.  Barros  has  preserved30  the  instructions 
which  he  gave  to  his  several  captains  when  in  the 
channel  of  Todos  los  Santos,  November  2ist,  1520 
(1521  ?)  We  possess  also  his  will  and  several  memo 
rials,  all  written  before  his  departure.  As  to  the  De 
scription  de  los  reinos,  costas,  puertas  y  islas  que  hay  en  el 

23  "  26  Nouebris" — MAXIM. TRANSYLV.,  garofani  molto  piu  eccelenti  delli  soliti;  e 
Efist.  in  No-vus  Orbis  of  1537,  p.  591.  le  altre  sue  nave  in  5  anni  mai  nuova  ci  e 

24  PIGAFETTA,  loc.  cit.  trapelata.     Stimansi  perse." — Archive  Sto- 

25  MAXIM.  TRANSYLV.,  loc.  cit.  rico  Italiano ;  Florence,   1842-1857,  Ap- 

26  See  the  passage  in  the  curious  letter  pendix,  Vol.  ix. 

of  FERNANDO  CARLI  :    "  che  appena  e  un         27  PIGAFETTA,  loc .  cit. 
anno  torno  [the  letter  is  dated  August  4th,          38  Bibl.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  H,  p.  379. 
1524]  Fernando  Magaghiana,  quale  disco-         S9  Bibliotheca  Lusitana,  Vol.  n,  p.  31. 
perse   grande   paese    con   una   nave   mello         so  loc  cit.,  Dec.  in,  lib.  5,  c.  9,  published 

delle  cinque  a  discoprire.     Donde  adduse  in  Spanish  by  NAVARZRTE,  loc.  cit.,  45-49. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  229 

mar  de  la  India  orient  al,  discovered  by  Navarrete  in  17 93, 
it  is  not  considered  authentic.  The  account  written 
by  Peter  Martyr  in  1522'';  the  Del  Descubrimiento  del 
Estrecho  de  Magellan^  of  Andres  de  San  Martin31,  con 
sulted  by  Her/era;  Oviedo's  separate  Historia  del  Estre 
cho"  (Hist.  Gen.  Lib.  xx?),  and  the  narration  of  Leon 
Pancaldo  de  Saona,  the  pilot  of  the  Victoria™^  are  also  lost. 
The  narrations  which  we  possess  are : 

1.  PIGAFETTA'S   Primo  Viaggio  intorno  al  globo  terra- 
queo,  long  known  only  through  Fabre's  garbled  version 
in  French,  published  at  Paris  in  or  about  1525  (infra),  and 
first  published  in  full  from  an  Italian  MS.  by  Amoretti35. 

2.  BAUTISTA'S  Roteiro  da  Viagem  de  Fernam  de  Magal- 
haes.     This  Bautista  was  a  Genoese  pilot  who  accom 
panied  Magellan.     His  account,  the  original  of  which 
is  in  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris,  was  published  for 
the  first  time  in  i83i36. 

3.  DUARTE  BARBOSA'S  Sommario  di  tvtti  il  regni^  citta 
e  populi  del?  Indie  orientali,  as  we  find  it  in  Ramusio  is 
only  a  description  of  the  countries  visited  by  Magellan. 
But  in   1812  a  manuscript  was  found  in  Lisbon,   and 
published  the  year  following  by  the  Portuguese  Academy 
of  Sciences37,  which,  under  the  title  of  Livro  emque  da 
relacao  do  que  viu  e  ouviu  no  oriente,  gives  the  original 
text  of  Barbosa,  and,  to  a  certain  extent,  an  account  of 
Magellan's  voyage.     Duarte  Barbosa  was  his  brother- 
in-law,  and  died  by  his  side  at  Matan. 

4.  FRANCISCO  ALBO'S  Diario  6  derrotero  del  viage  de 
Magallanes  desde  el  cabo  de  San  Agustin  en  el  Brasi!,  hasta 
el  regreso  a  Espana  de  la  nao  Victoria,  in  Navarrete38. 

5.  ANTONIO  BRITO'S  letter  to  the  King  of  Portugal, 
found    in    the   archives    of  the    Torre   de  Tombo   by 
Munoz,  and  also  published  by  Navarrete39. 

31  Opus,  efist.,  Epist.  797,  and  RAMU-         ls  Milan,  410,  1800,  maps, 
sio,  Vol.  i,  p.  347,  introd.  i6  Noticias  para  a   historia  e  geografia 

82  ANTONIO,  B.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  79.  das  na$ocs  ultramarinas;  Lisbon,  410. 

13  L.  PINELO,  p.  92;  ANTONIO,  i,  p.  555.         *T  Idem  opus. 

84  Mr.    Denis    cites    for   this   unknown          88  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  209-247. 
account:  OLDOINO,  Athtneo  Liguitico.  **  loc.  cit.}  pp.  305-312. 


230 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  523.        6.  The  present  account  by  MAXIMILIAN  OF  TRANSYL- 
.VANIA,  Charl-es  V's  secretary40,  written  in  the  form  of  an 
epistle  addressed  to  the  Abp.  of  Salzburg,  and  dated 
Valladolid,  October  24th,  1522.     Of  this,  we  describe, 
de  visu,  the  following  editions  : 

The  present  No.  122,  which  seems  to  be  the princeps ; 
the  Rome  edition  of  November,  1523  (infra);  and 
and  another  Roman  reprint,  dated  February,  1524  (in 
fra}.  We  vouch  for  no  other41. 

Maximilian's  epistle  was  inserted  in  the  two  editions 
of  the  Novus  Or  bis  dated  respectively  I53742  and 
I55543-  There  is  an  Italian  translation  in  Ramusio44. 
Navarette  published  in  his  Coleccion^  a  Spanish  version, 
apparently  copied  from  a  manuscript  in  the  Library  of 
the  Royal  Academy  of  History,  Madrid.  This,  in 
stead  of  being  dated  Oct.  24th,  bears  the  date  "  a  cinco 
de  Octubre;"  and  contains  a  short  introduction,  prob 
ably  by  the  translator,  from  which  we  extract  the  follow 
ing  curious  lines :  "  la  cual  [una  largo  relacion  en 
lengua  latina],  dirigio  al  cardinal  Salpurgense  obispo  de 
Cartagena." 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remind  the  reader  that  the 
account  of  Magellan's  voyage,  as  given  by  Hu/sius46, 
is  only  an  extract  from  Ortelius'  Theatrum  Orbis  and 
Chauveton's  Disc  ours. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  388,  No.  375. 
La  Valliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  35. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  I,  No.  4451,  and  Part  n,  No.  3687. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvilliana,  page  454. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  12,  No.  38. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1868. 
TERNAUX,  No.  30. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  1550. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  iv,  page  452. 


40  "  Genero    di    Cristoforo    de    Haro," 
AMORETTI,  p.  xxxvin. 

41  The    No.    142    of    Li-vres    Curieux, 
"  Vallisoleti,  28  Oct.    1522  (et  pas  Co- 
loniae,  1523),"  must  be  viewed  only  in  the 
light  of  an  indication  directed   to    book 
sellers,  and  based  upon  the  date  in  the  text 
of  the  Cologne  edition.    As  to  the  Pinelli- 
Panzer-Libri   edition   dated     1533,   it   is 


identical   with  the  present   number,  with 
the  exception  of  an  x  inadvertently  added 
by  the  printer  to  the  colophon. 
3  PP-  585-600. 

3  PP-  524-38- 

4  Raccolta,  Vol.  I,  pp.  347-352. 

5  Vol.  IV,  pp.  249-285. 

8  Sammlung    <von    Seeks    und  Zwanxig 
Schiffahrten}  P.  vi,  Nuremberg,  410,  1603. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  231 

123.  MAXIMILIAN  OF  TRANSYLVANIA— Within  a  highly 
ornamented  border  : 

Maximiliani  Tranfyluani  Caefaris||a  fe- 
cretis  Epiftola,  de  admirabili  ||  &  nouiffima 
Hifpanoru  in  Orien  ||  tern  nauigatione,  qua 
uariae,  &  nul  ||  li  prius  acceffae  Regiones  inu- 
etae  ||  flint,  cum  ipfi.s  etia  Moluccis  infu||lis 
beatiffimis,  Optimo  Aromatu  |  genere  refer- 
tis.  Inauditi  quoq.  in||cola$  mores  expo- 
nuntur,  ac  mul  ||  ta  quas  Herodotus,  Plinius, 
Soli/ 1|  nus  atque  alii  tradiderunt,  fabulo  ||  fa 
effe  arguunt.  Contra  nonnulla  ||  ibide  || 
uera,  uix  tamen  credibilia  ex  ||  plicant. 
quibufcum  hiftoriis  Infu  ||  laribus  ambitus 
defcribit  alterius  ||  HemifpHaerii,  qua  ad 
nos  tandem  ||  hifpani  redierunt  incolumes.  || 
ROMA 

Colophon  on  the  recto  of  leaf  fifteenth  : 

ROMAE  ||  IN  AEDIBVS  .  F  .  ||  MINITII  CALVI  || 
ANNO  .  M.D.XXIII  ||  MENSE  NOVEMBRI.  || 

*.|e*  Sm.  410,  title  one  leaf+  three  preliminary  leaves  -\-ffteen 
unnumbered  leaves ;  text  in  Roman  characters.  (The  signa 
ture  D  ii  is  wrongly  marked  E  2.) 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

In   this  edition,   the  date,  "  Vallifoleti   die  XXIIII 
Octobris  M.D.XXII,"  is  omitted  altogether. 

Direct  references:  f  Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  2331,  and  Part  VH,  No.  4123. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  12,  No.  37. 
TERNAUX,  No  29. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  1549. 
GRAESSZ,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  451-2. 


232  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1C  2A.  124.      MAXIMILIAN  OF   TRANSYLVANIA— Within    a    highly 

_•  ornamented  border : 

Maximiliani  Tranfyluani  Caefaris  ||  a  fe- 
cretis  Epiftola,  de  admirabili  ||  &  nouiffima 
Hifpanoru  in  Orien  ||  tem  nauigatione,  qua 
uariae,  &  nul  ||  li  prius  accefTae  Regiones  inu- 
etae||funt,  cum  ipfis  etia  Moluccis  infufllis 
beatiflimis,  optimo  Aromatu  ||  genere  refer- 
tis.  Inauditi  quoq.  in||cola^  mores  expo- 
nuntur,  ac  mul  ||  ta  quae  Herodotus,  Plinius, 
Soli/||nus  atque  alii  tradiderunt,  fabulo||fa 
efle  arguunt.  Contra  nonnulla  ||  ibide  || 
uera,  uix  tamen  credibilia  ex  ||  plicant. 
quibufcum  hiftoriis  Infu  ||  laribus  ambitus 
defcribif  alterius  ||  Hemifphaerii,  qua  ad 
nos  tandem  ||  hifpani  redierunt  incolumes.  || 
ROMA 

Colophon  : 

.    ROMAE    IN    ^EDIBVS  ||  F.  MINITII  CALVI  ||  ANNO 
M.DXXIIII.  II  MENSE  ||  FEB.  || 


*J|e*  Sm.  410,  title  one  leaf -j-  three  preliminary  leaves  -{-fourteen 
unnumbered  leaves ;  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  a  literal  copy  of  the  above  No.  123, 
as  far  as  signature  B  ii,  whicj?,  in  this  copy,  ends  with 
f f  inuenerint,"  instead  of  "  qua."  The  signature  D  ii 
is  correctly  given. 

Direct  reference  :  Reina  (of  Milan)  Catalogue,  Paris,  1834-40. 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

125.     CORTES  (FERNANDO)— Within  a  double  border: 

|1rncdara  /irMnafc 

<£crtefii  tie  jfloua  marts  ©ceani  f^g  ||  fpanta 
ratio  Sacratittimo.  ac  Jnuicttttt- 1|  mo  Carolo 
Romanoru  Imperatori  femper  Augufto, 
Hyfpa  ||  niaru,  &  c  Regi  Anno  Domini. 
M.D.XX.  tranfmifla  :  ||  In  qua  Continen- 
tur  Plurima  fcitu,  &  admiratione  ||  digna 
circa  egregias  earu  puintiaru  Vrbes,  In-  || 
colaru  mores,  pueroru  Sacrificia,  &  Reli- 
giofas  ||  perfonas,  Potiffimucp  de  Celebri 
Ciuitate  ||  Temixtitan  Variifcp  illi?  mari- 
bilib9,  que  ||  legete  mirifice  deleclabut.  ||  p 
Doctore  ||  Petru  faguorgnanu  \sic\  Foro 
lulienfe  ||  Reuen.  D.  loan,  de  Reuelles  || 
Epifco.  Vienefis  Sacretariu  ||  ex  Hyfpano 
Idi  ||  ornate  in  lati  ||  nu  verfa  ||  ANNO  Dni. 
M.D.XXIIII.  KL.  Martii :  ||  Cum  gratia, 
&  Priuilegio.  || 

Colophon : 

C  Explicit  fecunda  Ferdinandi  Cortefii 
Narratio  per  Doc  ||  torem  Petrum  Sauor- 
gnanum  Foro  lulienfem  ex  Hy- 1|  fpano 
Idiomate  in  latinum  Conuerfa.  Im-  || 
preffa  in  Celebri  Ciuitate  Norimberga.  || 
Couentui  Imperiali  prefidente  Sere-  ||  nif- 
fimo  Ferdinando  Hyfpaniaru  Infate,  & 

3° 


234  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1524.  Archiduce  Auftriae  ||  Sac :  Ro.  Imp:  Lo- 
cut.  ||  General!  ||  Anno.  Dni  M.D.XXIIII : 
Quar.  No.  Mar.  ||  Per  Fridericum  Peypus.|| 
Arthimefius.il* 

Recto  of 'the fifty-fifth  leaf: 

De  Rebus,  et  Infulis  nouiter  Repertis  || 
a  Serenifs.  Carolo  Imperatore  ||  Et  Variis 
earum  genti-  ||  um  moribus.  || 

*^*  Folio,  four  preliminary  leaves,  including  the  title,  then  text 
in  XLIX  leaves,  followed  by  Peypus'  mark,  +  twelve  numbered 
leaves  for  the  De  Rebus  et  Insults.  Plan  of  Mexico,  on  a 
large  folded  leaf,  which  contains  an  inscription,  in  five  lines, 
below  the  scale,  not  to  be  found  in  the  fac-simile  published 
in  the  American  Bibliographer.  Marginal  notes  in  black 
letter,  text  in  Roman.  (In  one  of  the  copies  which  we 
have  examined,  the  verso  of  the  fourth  preliminary  leaf  con 
tains,  within  a  medallion,  a  large  woodcut  portrait  of  Pope 
Clement  VII,  with  the  scriptural  citation :  "  Super  Aspi- 
denv  et  basiliscum  ambulabis.") 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

Dirtct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  n,  page  651. 
PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  466. 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  269. 
TERNAUX,  No.  32  (describes  the  above  as  being  sine  anno  out  loco). 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  312. 
EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  5324. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vn,  page  105. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  2415,  and  Part  ix,  No.  910. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  page  1 66. 
Bibliotheca   Broivniana,  page  1 3,  No.  42. 
Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  86. 
Solar  Catalogue,  No.  2491,  with  portrait  of  Clement. 
Butsch  Catalogue,  page  23,  No.  344. 

*  Anglice:  The  famous  narration  of  Per-  cerning  the  remarkable  cities  of  those  pro- 

nando   Cortes,  concerning  New  Spain   of  vinces,  customs  of  the  inhabitants,  sacrifices 

the  Oceanic  Sea,  forwarded  to  the  Most  of  children,  and  on  the  subject  of  religious 

Sacred   and   Invincible   Charles,   Emperor  persons,  especially  on  the  city  of  Temix- 

ever  august  of  the  Romans,  King  of  Spain,  titan  and  its  various  wonders,  which  will 

&c.,  A.  D.  1520,  containing   many  things  delight  the  reader  in  a  wonderful  manner; 

worthy  of  being  learned  and  admired,  con-  translated  from  the  Spanish  language  into 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  235 

126.     CORTES  (FERNANDO}— Within  a  frame  and  below  a  me-     I  5  24. 
dqllion  containing  a  most  unseemly  portrait  of  Charles  V.  mmm 

Certtrt  /erMttaM  Cor-  n 

teftt  Sac.  Tartar,  et  OTatij.  J^aiefta.  ||  IN  NO 
VA  MARIS  OCEANI  HYSPANIA 
GENE- 1|  ralis  praefedi  pclara  Narratio,  In 
qua  Celebris  Ciuitatis  Temix  ||  titan  ex- 
pugnatio,  aliarucj  Prouintiaru,  que  defe- 
cerant  recupe-  ||  ratio  continetur,  In  quaru 
expugnatione,  recuperationeqj  Praefe  ||  &us, 
una  cum  Hyfpanis  Vi&orias  oeterna  me- 
moria  dignas  con  ||  fequutus  eft,  pr^terea  In 
ea  Mare  del  Sur  Cortefium  detexifTe  re-  || 
cefet,  quod  nos  Auftrale  Indicu  Pelagus 
putam9,  &  alias  innume  ||  ras  Prouintias  * 
Aurifodinis,  Vnionibus,  Variif^  Gemma- 
rum  ||  generibus  refertas,  Et  poftremo  illis 
innotuifle  in  eis  quoqj  Aro-  ||  matac  [sic] 
ontineri,  Per  Do6tore  Petrum  Sauorgnanu 
Foroiulienfem  ||  Reuen.  in  Chrifto  patris 
dfii  lo.  de  Reuelles  Epifcopi  Vienenfis  || 
Secretarium  Ex  Hyfpano  ydiomate  In 
Latinum  Verfa.  II 


Latin,  by  Dr.  Peter  Saguorgnano  {sic)  of  nando  Cortes,  translated  from  the  Spanish 

Forli,  Secretary  to  the  Reverend  D.  John  into   Latin   by   Dr.    Peter   Savorgnano   of 

deRevelles,  Bishop  of  Vienna,  A.  D.  152.4,  Forli.       Printed    in    the    famous    city    of 

March  1st.    With  permission  and  privilege.  Nuremberg,  while  the  most  Serene  Ferdi- 

Here  ends  the  Second  Relation  of  Fer-  nand,  Infant  of  Spain,  and  Archduke  of 


236  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Colophon : 

Impreffum  In  Imperial!  ||  Ciuitate 
imberga,  ||  Per  Difcretum,  &  proui  ||  dum 
Virum  Fcedericu  ||  Arthemefium  Ciuem  || 
ibidem,  Anno  Vir-  ||  ginei  partus  Mil  ||  le- 
ilmoquingente  ||  fiuno  vigefimo  ||  quarto.  ||* 

Recto  of  leaf  I: 

^[  De  Rebus  et  Infulis  nouiter  Reper- 
tis  ||  a  Serenifs.  Carolo  Imperatore,  Et 
Variis  earum  genti-  ||  um  moribus.  || 

(Inserted  in  the  place  of  the  lost  First  Narration.) 

*„£*  Folio,  four  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves,  -f-  fifty-one  num 
bered  leaves  +  one  leaf  of  errata.  Text  in  Roman,  with 
marginal  notes  in  Gothic.  Imperial  arms  on  reverse  of  the 
title. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

First  edition  of  Savorgnanus'  Latin  Version  of 
Cortes'  Second  and  Third  Letters. 

"  Mr.  Heber  had  written  the  following  note  in  his  Catalogue  : 
'  In  the  "  Novus  Orbis"  compiled  by  Grynaeus  from  the  papers 
of  Huttichius,  and  published  for  the  fourth  time  at  Basil  by  Her- 
vagius,  in  1555,  Fol.,  these  second  and  third  letters  of  Cortes,  as 


Austria,  Lieutenant  General  of  the  Holy  covered  the  South  Sea,  which  we  consider 
Roman  Empire,  was  president  of  the  Im-  the  Southern  Indian  Ocean,  and  innumer- 
perial  Council,  A.  D.  March  4th,  1524,  able  other  provinces  abounding  in  gold 
By  Frederick  Peypus  Arthimesius.  mines,  pearls  and  various  kinds  of  pre- 
*  Angllce :  The  third  Naartion  of  Per-  cious  stones,  and  whereby  it  was  made 
nando  Cortes,  of  His  Sacred  Imperial  and  known  that  they  also  contain  spices. 
Catholic  Majesty  in  New  Spain  of  the  Translated  from  the  Spanish  into  Latin, 
Oceanic  sea ;  containing  the  conquest  of  by  Dr.  Peter  Savorgnano  of  Forli,  Secre- 
the  celebrated  city  of  Temixtitan,  and  the  tary  to  the  Reverend  Father  in  Christ, 
recovery  of  other  provinces  which  had  Lord  John  de  Revelles,  Bishop  of  Vienna, 
been  lost ;  in  the  conquest  and  recovery  of  Printed  in  the  Imperial  City  of  Nuremberg, 
which  the  Governor  and  Spaniards  gained  by  the  discreet  and  provident  man  Fred- 
victories  worthy  of  being  remembered  ;  crick  Arthemisius,  citizen  of  the  said  city, 
besides  which  is  related  how  Cortes  dis-  the  year  of  the  Virgin's  parturition  1514. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

translated  by  Savorgnanus,  are  faithfully  inserted,  but  are  not  to  be      I  $2  A.* 
found  in  the  preceding  editions.     The  dedication,  however,  to  Cle- 
ment  VII.  prefixed  to  the  version  of  the  former  relation  (dated  from  ~ 
Nuremberg,  Id.   Feb.    1524)  is  omitted,  and  so  is   the   Carmen  ad 
Lectorem,  in  fourteen  Latin  elegiacs.     This  is  the  more  remarkable, 
as  the  corresponding  introduction  and  verses  at  the  commencement  of 
the  succeeding  relation,  are  carefully  preserved.     In  this  copy  on  the 
verso  of  A  iv.  after  '  Argumentum  Libri,'  is  a  fine  woodcut  portrait 
of  Clement  VII.  not  in  the  Heber  copy."1 

Dirtct  refirtncet  :  (      TERNAUX,  No.  33. 

•I       BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  312. 
I    *  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  167. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  I  3,  No.  42. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  13. 
Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  87. 

127.     API  ANUS  (PETER)—  Surmounting  a  globe: 

COSMOGRA 

Xitrcr  grin  %i»tti 


Colophon  on  page  104  : 

If  IBxcufum  Hanrtflmtae  ftgpte  ac  formulte 


Otfjrifti  Sal-  II  uatorte  omnium  JHillefimo  1  1 
quingenteftmo  i  bicefimo-  1|  quarto  i  JHenfe  Ja-  II  nu 
turni  tromt-  1|  ctlium  ||  poffilrente,  || 


410,  Title  one  leaf  -f-  five  prel-hninary  leaves  unnumbered  (in 
some  copies  these  are  inserted  at  the  end  of  the  work)  -j-  one 
hundred  and  three  numbered  pages.  On  the  verso  of  the 
title,  the  arms  of  the  Cardinal,  Abp.  of  Saltzburg;  on  page  2, 
a  globe  with  the  word  AMERI  on  an  island  ;  revolving  dia 
grams  on  pages  17,  22  and  63,  the  latter  containing  the  word 
AMERICA. 

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238  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C  24.*         On  page  69,  the  fourth  chapter  begins  with  these  words  : 

America :  quae  nunc  <&uarta  pars:  terrae  trici  || 
tut  i  at  &mertco  SJefpucui  etufue  inuetore  nomen 
fortita  eft.  ||  IBt  turn  immertto :  quoniam  mart  bntrt- 
g>  claututur  Jnfuia  ap  ||  peilatur.* 

Peter  Bienevitz  or  Apianus  was  born  at  Leissnig  in 
Saxony,  in  1495*.  He  died  at  Ingolstadt,  where  he  held 
a  professorship  in  the  University  for  more  than  thirty 
years,  in  1551  (Jocher*),  or  in  1552  (Fossius*).  Accord 
ing  to  Melchior  Adam4,  not  only  Apianus'  dedication 
of  the  present  work  to  Charles  V  was  rewarded  with 
the  order  of  Knighthood,  but  he  received  in  addition 
three  thousand  golden  crowns.  Teissier  says  of  him5 : 
"  II  s'adonna  a  I'lmprimerie  [Astrologie  ?]  et  n'eut!  jamais 
d'egal  dans  1'invention  des  instrumens  d' Astronomic." 
He  was  also  the  designer  of  the  earliest  map  which  con 
tains  the  name  of  "America."  (See  suprat  page  183). 
M.  D'Avezac  remarks5,  concerning  the  woodcuts  in 
serted  in  the  Cosmographia  (Caps,  vn  and  vm),  that: 

"La  disposition  des  meridiens  et  des  paralleles,  comptes  de  10  en 
10  degres,  est  representee  en  une  serie  de  lignes  droites  equidistantes 
pour  ceux-ci,  et  une  serie  de  demi-cercles  equidistants  pour  ceux-la, 
les  uns  se  multipliant  jusqu'au  nombre  de  36  (ce  qui  fait  360  degres), 
et  les  autres  s'allongeant  a  proportion,  afin  de  remplir  dans  toute  sa 
largeur  la  figure  de  1'orbe  terrestre  entier,  developpe  en  ovale  dont  le 
plus  grand  diametre  coincide  avec  1'equateur  du  globe.  C'etait  1'es- 
quisse  rudimentaire  d'une  projection  nouvelle  qui,  d'abord  risquee 
dans  ses  proportions  exigues,  devait  engendrer  a  vingt  ans  d'intervalle, 
la  grande  et  remarquable  mappemonde  de  Sebastien  CabotT,  ou  comme 
dans  les  specimens  d'Apianus,  1'echelle  des  longitudes  est  expresse- 


*  Angllce  :  America,  which  is  now 
called  the  fourth  part  of  the  world,  took 
its  name  from  Americus  Vespuccio,  who 
discovered  it ;  and  is  called  an  island  for 
the  reason  that  it  is  surrounded  by  water. 

1  PANTALEON,  Prosopographite ;  Basle, 
fol.,  1566,  Part  in,  p.  149,  cited  by  CLE 
MENT,  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.  I,  p.  405, 
who  also  quotes  :  ALBINUS  Mtissnitcht 
Land  und  Berg-Chronica ;  Dresden,  fol., 


1589,  p.  350;  REUSNER,  Icones  Viror.  lit. 
illustr.  f  Strasburg,  8vo,  1590,  p.  175. 
3  Allgem.  Gtlehrt.  Ltxlc.,  Vol.  i,  p.  465. 

3  De  Mathesi,  p.  148. 

4  Vita  German.  Philos. ;  Frankfurt,  8  vo, 
1663,  p.  142,  cited  by  Clement. 

4  Elogct  des  Hommet  Savons,  Vol.  I,  p.  55. 

8  Coup  d'oeil  hhtorique  sur  la  Projection 
des  Cartes  de  GeograpHit  ;  Paris,  STO, 
1863,  pp.  53-55. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  239 

ment  d'un  tiers  moindre  que  celle  des  latitudes,  de  peur  d'une  exten-     I  r  24-« 
sion  demesuree  du  cadre  dans  le   sens  d'est  en  ouest :  mais  c'etait  la 
une  consideration  purement  accidentelle,   qui  ne  devait  entraver  au-  ~ 
cunement  le  retour  ulterieur  a  Punifbrmite  d'echelle.     Facile  a  tracer 
ce  mode  de  projection  fit  fortune,  et  il  se  repandit  dans  toute  1'Europe 
a  la  faveur  surtout  des  publications  capitales  de  Sebastien  Munster  et 
d'Abraham  Ortelz." 

This  work  has  been  frequently  printed  and  translated. 
We  give,  infra,  editions  in  Latin  of  1529,  1533,  1539, 
1540,  1541,  1545,  !55°;  in  French  of  1544,  and 
in  Spanish  one  of  1548.  There  are  other  editions  in 
Italian  and  Dutch,  but  of  a  later  date.  The  "  Cosmo- 
graphie  ecrite  en  Alleman,"  mentioned  by  Teissier,  we 
have  never  seen.  It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  Clement 
selects  from  all  the  editions  of  Apianus'  Cosmographia 
that  of  Antwerp,  4to,  1584,  as  the  "plus  ample  &  la 
plus  considerable  de  toutes  les  editions." 

There  are  several  editions  of  an  abridgment  of  this 
work,  made,  in  all  probability,  by  Apianus  himself,  and 
which  repeats  verbatim  entire  passages  from  the  second 
part  of  the  original  edition.  It  is  frequently  mistaken8 
for  Waltzmuller's  Cosmographia  Introductio  (supra  Nos. 
44—47).  We  have  before  us  the  editions  of  Ingolstadt, 
I2mo,  M.D.XXIX  (colophon  dated  M.D.XXXII). 
thirty-one  leaves ;  Ingolstadt,  i2mo,  M.D.XXIX  (colo 
phon  dated  M.D.XXXII  I,  Mense  lanuario),  forty 
leaves;  Venice,  8vo,  MDXXXV,  thirty-one  leaves; 
Venice,  8vo,  MDXXXXI  (Mentis  lulij,  ex  colophon), 
twenty-four  leaves. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  134, 
Bibliotheca  TAottiana,  Vol.  vu,  page  219. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  12. 
Bibliotheca  Bre-voortiana,  — . 
Aspinwall  Catalogue,  No.  5. 
EBERT,  No.  784. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  342 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  159. 


7  Republished    in    JOMARD,   Monuments         8  See  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  p.  114, 
de  la  Geographic.     See  our  appendix.  and  ourselves  (supra,  p.  62,  note  88). 


240  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1C  24..  128.     BERGOMAS  (JAC.  PHIL.)— Above  a   large  woodcut   rep- 

—  resenting  St.  Michael  and  the  dragon : 

SVPPLEMENTVM||SVPPLEMENTI|| 
lie  le  <Ef)rotttcf)e  trei  Benerantw  pafcre  jFra-||te 
Jacoto  fillip  trei  ortrine  f^eremttanxi  ||  ^rimo 
autftore.  misari^ato  r  f^gftoriato.  ||  cum  ia  giunta 
pet  hmno.  1524.!! 

Colophon  : 

C  FinifTe  Supplemento  de  le  Chroniche 
Vulgarizato  &  Hyftoriato  con  la  gion  ||  ta 
per  infino  del  anno  1524.  del  mefe  di 
Octobrio.  Impreffo  in  Venetia  ||  per  loane 
Francifcho  &  loanne  Antonio  Fratelli  di 
Rufconi.  ||  Regnante  lo  Inclyto  Principe 
Andrea  Griti.  Nel  an- 1|  no  del  Signore. 
1524.  del  mefe  di  Nouebrio.  || 

*#*  Folio,  CCCLXVI  numbered  leaves,  many  woodcuts. 

(British  Museum.) 
I  2Q.     CORTES  (FERNANDO)— Within  a  broad  border: 

Ha  preelara  Jlarratume  tri  jfertrinan  ||  do 
Cortefe  della  Nuoua  Hifpagna  del  Mare 
Oceano,  al  ||  Sacratiffimo,  &  Inuicftiffimo 
Carlo  di  Romani  Imperatore  fern  ||  pre 
Augufto  Re  Dhifpagna  &  cio  che  fiegue, 
nellano  del  Si  (Ignore.  M.D.XX.  trafmeffa: 
Nella  quale  fi  eotegono  mol  ||  te  cofe  degne 
di  fcienza,  &  ammiratione,  circa  le  cittadi 
egregie  di  quelle  Prouincie  coftumi  dhab- 


Bibliothecd  Americana.  241 

itatori,  fa  ||  crifici  di  Fanciulli,  &  Religiofe  1524, 
perfone,  Et  maffi-  1|  mamente  della  celebre  g 
citta  Temixtitan,  &  va-  1|  rie  cofe  marauig- 
liofe  di  quella,  e  quali  dilet-  1|  teranno  mira- 
bilmete  il  lettore  per  il  Dot-  1|  tore  Pietro 
Sauorgnano  Foroiulienfe  ||  Del  Riuerendo 
Meffer  Giouani  de  ||  Reuelles  Vefcouo  di 
Vienna  Se-||cretario  dal  iddioma  Hifpagni|| 
uolo  in  lingua  latina  Con-||uerfa  Nel  Anno. 
M.D.XXIIII.  di  Primo  Mar||zo  :  Hora 
nellefteflb  ||  Milleiimo  di  XVII.  Agofto.  Voi  || 
Candidiffimi  lettori  leggerete  con  diletta- 
tione  &  piacere  ||  grandiffimo  la  prefata 
Narratione  di  Fernando  Corte  fe  dalla 
Facodia  latina  al  fpledore  della  lingua  vol- 
gare  p  MeiTer  Nicolo  Liburnio  co  fidelta 
&  diligeza  tradotta  al  comodo,  &  fodisfat- 
tione  de  glhonefti  &  virtuofi  ingegni.  || 

Cum  gratia  r 


Colophon  ; 

(L  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Bernardino 
de  Viano  de  Lexona  Vercellefe.  Ad  in- 
ftancia  de  Bapti-  1|  fta  de  Pederzani  Brixiani. 
Anno  domi-||ni.  M.D.XXIIII.  Adi.  XX. 
Agofto.* 

*  Anglice  :  The  famous  Relation  of  Fer-     the  Oceanic  Sea,  transmitted  in  the  year 
nando  Cortes,  concerning   New   Spain   of    A.  D.  I  520,  to  the  most  Sacred  and  Invin- 


31 


242 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


C  24..  ***  4to,  seventy-three  numbered  leaves.  On  the  verso  of  the  last, 
a  printer's  mark  representing  an  elephant.  This  edition  con 
tains  a  large  plan  of  the  city  of  Mexico,  with  descriptions  in 
Italian  instead  of  Latin,  as  in  the  Peypus  Cortes  of  1524  (No. 
125),  which  was  evidently  the  prototype  for  the  present. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence,  and 
N.  Y.  Historical  Soc.  Libr.) 

This  Italian  version   of  the  second   account  differs 
materially  from  that  which  was  given  by  Ramusio1. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vui,  page  486,  No.  1248. 
Bibliotheca  Pine/liana,  Vol.  iv,  page  ill. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  1002,  and  part  x,  No.  848. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  13,  No.  39. 
EBERT,  No.  5325. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  312. 

Reina,  Walckenaer,  Potier  and  Hibbert  Catalogues  (page  129,  No 
2264  of  the  latter). 


I  30.  IDEM  OPUS— Precisely  like  the  above  No.  128,  save  the 
colophon,  which  is  as  follows  : 

Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zuan9  Antonio 
de  Nico- 1|  lini  da  Sabio.  Ad  inftantia  de 
M.  Baptifta  ||  de  Pederzani  Brixiano.  An- 

Dz 
•     (British  Museum.) 


Direct  references:  (  Bibliotheca  Grcnvilliana,  page  1 66. 
Li-vrcs  Curieux,  No.  131. 


cible  Charles,  Emperor  ever  august  of  the 
Romans,  King  of  Spain,  &c. ;  containing 
many  things  worthy  of  being  known  and 
admired,  concerning  the  remarkable  cities 
of  those  provinces,  customs  of  the  inhabit 
ants,  sacrifices  of  children,  and  religious 
persons,  and  especially  of  the  celebrated 
city  of  Temixtitan,  and  various  wonderful 
things  in  the  same,  which  will  delight  the 
reader  in  a  wonderful  manner;  translated 
from  the  Spanish  into  Latin  by  Dr.  Peter 
Savorgnano  of  Forli,  Secretary  to  the 
Rev.  Master  John  de  Revelles,  Bishop  of 
Vienna,  March,  1524:  Now,  August  zyth, 
ye  most  candid  readers  will  peruse  with  the 


greatest  delight  and  pleasure  the  aforesaid 
narrative  of  Fernando  Cortes,  translated 
faithfully  and  with  diligence  from  the  elo 
quent  Latin  to  the  splendid  vulgar  tongue, 
by  Master  Thomas  Liburnio,  for  the  con 
venience  and  satisfaction  of  honest  and 
appreciative  minds.  With  grace  and  pri 
vilege. 

Printed  at  Venice  by  Bernardin  de  Viano 
de  Lexona,  of  Vercelli ;  at  the  request  of 
Baptist  de  Pederzani  of  Brescia,  August 
2Oth,  A.  D.  1524. 

1  Raccolta,  Vol.  HI,  pp.  225-304. 

8  There  were  several  de  Sabios  who 
exercised  the  art  of  printing  at  Venice. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  243 

131.     FRANCIS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  1^24.. 

£»»  DE  ORBIS  ||  SITV  AC  DESCRIPTIONS, 
AD  RE  ||  uerendijs.  D.  archiepifcopum  Panormitanum,  || 
Francisfcij  Monachi  ordinis  Fracifcani,  epiftola  Jane  qua 
luculenta.  In  qua  ||  Ptolem<ei,  c<eterorumq  ;  Jupe  ||  riorft 

geographorum  hal\\  lucinatio  refellitur.  \\  aliaq  ;  pr<eteYea  || 
de  recens  ||  inuen  \\  tis  \\  terris,  mart,  injulis.  Deditio  papa 
loannis  De  fitu  ||  Paradi/ii,  &  dimenfione  miliarum  ad  pro  \\ 

portione  graduum  cosli^  prxclara  ||  &  memoratu  digna  recen  \\ 

Jentur  || 

Colophon  : 

EXCVDEBAT  MARTINVS  CAE-  ||  far,  expenfis  honefti  viri 
Rolandi  Bollaert,  com- 1|  morantis  Antuerpiae  iuxta  portam  Ca- 1|  mere 
fub  interfignio  rnaio- 1|  ris  falconis  albi.  ||* 

*„,*  izmo,  title  one  leaf-}- fourteen  unnumbered  leaves;  on  the 
verso  of  the  last  a  printer's  mark,  with  the  motto :  SOLA 
FIDES  SVFFICIT.  On  the  verso  of  the  title-page,  a 
mappemund,  inscribed  :  Hoc  orbis  Hemisphjerium  cedit  regi 
Lusitanite.  On  the  recto  of  the  following  leaf,  another  map 
pemund  or  hemisphere,  bearing  this  inscription  :  Hoc  orbis 
Hemispheerium  cedit  regi  Hispanic,  and  the  word  AMERICA 
on  the  southern  part  of  the  continent. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  have  been  wholly  unable  to  find  any  biographical 
details  concerning  the  author  of  this  curious  work. 


Stephanus,  in  partnership  with  his  brothers,  emy  and  of  other  geographers  are  dispelled, 

printed    from    1524   to    1536.     Peter   de  Also,    concerning    the    newly    discovered 

Nicolinis  de  Sabio,  from    15x6   to    1536,  lands,  seas  and  islands.     Dedicated  to  Pope 

Sebastian  in  1534,  and  Nicolo  di  Nicolini  John    [?f],  touching   the   site  of  Para- 

in  1535;  but  we  find  no  mention  in  PAN-  dise    and    the    measurement    of  distances 

ZER  of  a  John  or  of  an  Anthony  of  that 

name.     These   researches   were    necessary  |  JUHUS  de  Medicis,  under  the  name  of  Clement 

to  unravel  the  meaning  of  the  mysterious  VII,  was  pope  from  1515  to  1534,  while  his  two 

D  at  thr  end  of  the  colophon  immediate  predecessors  were  Adrian  VI  and  Leo  X. 

The  latter  was  named  John  (de  Medicis),  but  to 

•«•  Anglice  :   A  very  exqulsite^letter  from  consider  him  as  the  pope  mentioned  herein,  would 

Francis    a  monk  of  the  Franciscan   order,  carry  the  date  of  the  work  to  1513,  which  is  an 

to  the  most  Reverend  Archbishop  of  Paler-  ''"Possibility,  as  it  mentions  Cortes  and  Magellan. 

r.     .           ,,  Is  it  not  rather  "Presbyter  John"  who  is  intended, 

mo,  touching  the  site  and    description   of  wnile  dtdican  must  be  taken  in  the  sense  of  an 

the  globe.    Wherein  the  delusions  of  Ptol-  assertion  ? 


244  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1524.    The   only  notice  we  could  discover  is   the  following, 
-^__a__.  which  we  copy  from  Valerius  Andre,  Andreas,  Desse- 
lius  or  Taxander1 : 

"  Franciscus  Monachus,  &  familiae  nomine  &  professione,  Machli- 
niensis,  ord.  Minorum." 

Fabricius,  Saxius  and  Jocher  mention  several  monks 
of  the  name  of  Franciscus  belonging  to  the  Franciscan 
order,  but  the  references  are  not  sufficiently  definite  to 
authorize  us  to  ascribe  the  present  work  to  any  of  them. 
Those  of  our  readers  who  have  access  to  J.  F.  of  St. 
Anthony's  Supplement  to  Wadding's  Scriptores  ordinis 
Minorum1  may  be  more  successful.  The  archbishop 
mentioned  on  the  title-page  was  the  well-known  Jehan 
de  Carondelet3,  born  at  Dole  in  1469,  the  friend  of 
Charles  V  and  of  Erasmus4,  and  who,  after  holding  the 
high  position  of  Primate  of  Sicily,  died  at  Malines  in 
I5445. .  Laire  considers6  this  Carondelet  as  the  author, 
while  he  was  only  the  recipient  of  the  epistle  in  its 
original  form'.  As  to  the  work  mentioned  by  this 
painstaking  but  unreliable7  bibliographer,  it  is  only  a 
later  edition  of  the  work  before  us,  mentioned  also  by 
Valerius  Andreas. 

The  only  reference  approaching  a  description  of  the 


according  to  the  proportion  of  the  celestial  *  "  Suivant  le  P.  Laire,  on  a  imprime  a 

degrees,  remarkable  and  worthy  of  being  Anvers  en  1565,  in-8°,  un  ouvrage  de  lui 

examined.  [Carondelet]  intitule  de  orbis  situ.  Le 

Printed  by  Martin  Lempereur,  at  the  P.  Laire  assure  avoir  vu  un  exemplaire  de 

expense  of  the  Honorable  Roland  Bollaert,  cet  ouvrage  dans  la  Bibliotheque  du  Vati- 

residing  at  Antwerp,  near  the  arched  can.  Nous  ne  connaissons  aucun  autre 

gate  [?],  at  the  sign  of  the  large  white  bibliographe  qui  en  fasse  mention."  (Bio- 

falcon.  graphic  Ifniverselle,  Vol.  VII,  p.  31.)  The 

1  Bibliotheca  Belgica,  4to,  1643,  P-  234-  edition     mentioned    by    Laire     is     izmo, 

*  Bibliotheca   universa  francisc. ;    Mad-  printed  by  Withagius,  and  numbers  nine- 
rid,  fol.,  1732-33.  teen  leaves.     There  is  a  copy  of  it  in  a 

8  See  the  heading  of  the  epistle  on  the  private  library  in   Providence.     See   Bib- 
recto  of  the  first  leaf.  liotheca  Browniana,  p.  40,  No.  145. 

4  Erasmus'  edition  of  St.  Hiliarius  (Lu-  7  See  AUDIFFREDI,  Lettere   tipografahe  ; 

cubrationes;    Basle,  fol.,  1523)  is  dedicated  Rome,  8vo,  1778. 

to  Carondelet.  8  Bibliotheca  Classica  s.  catalogui  offici- 

*  FOPPENS,  Bibl.  Belgica,  Vol.  II,  p.  605.  nalis;  Francft.,  4to,  1611,  p.  760. 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

present  number,  is  a  short  mention  in  Draudius8,  that 
"  Catalogue  assez  mal  digere  des  foires  de  Francfort," 
as  Baillet9  calls  the  Bibliotheca  Classica. 

Direct  reference:   Bibliotheca  Barloioiana,  page  10. 


132.  ARIAS  (PETER)—"  Lettere  di  Pietro  Arias 
Capitano  generale,  della  conquista  del  paefe  del  Mar  •- 
Occeano  Scripte  alia  Maefta  Cefarea  dalla  Cipta  di 
Panama  delle  cofe  ultimamente  fcoperte  nel  Mar  Meri- 
diano  declo  el  Mar  Sur.  MDXXV.  fig.  e.  b.  au  titre. 
i6mo.  s.  1.  1525.  (En  vers.) 

"  Entre  autres  il  s'agit  dans  cette  lettre  du  depart  de 
Pizarro  pour  la  decouverte  du  Perou  en  1525." 

(Asher's  Catalogue,  1865.) 

Pedro  Arias  de  Avila,  usually  called  Pedrarias,  was  the 
energetic,  yet  pusillanimous  and  malignant  governor  of 
Darien,  who  founded  Panama,  first  extended  the  Spanish 
rule  over  Nicaragua  and  Costa-Rica,  put  Balboa  to 
death,  and  brought  Pizarro  into  notice.  The  above 
poem  or  epistle  refers,  we  imagine,  to  the  filibustering 
expedition  of  Diego  de  Almagro,  Hernando  de  Luque 
and  Francisco  Pizarro,  which  sailed  from  Panama  in 
the  middle  of  November1  or  on  the  14th1  of  November, 
1524,  or  in  1525'. 

*  Jugemens  des  Savons,  Vol.  n,  p.  14.  *  XERES,  Conquista  del  Peru,  in  BARCIA'S 

Valerius   Andreas   (loc.  cit.)  ascribes  to  Historiadores  primiti-vos,  Vol.  in,  p.  179. 
our  Franciscus  a  work  which  we  suppose,          '  CIE<JA  DE  LEON,  Primera  partc  de  la 

from  the  title,  to  have  some  bearing  on  chronica    del    Peru;    Seville,    fol.,    1553; 

the  subject  before  us  :  Antwerp,  8vo,  1554. 

"  Rcgioncs  quoque  Septentrionalcs  in  tabula         — GARCILASSO     DE    LA    VEGA,    la   His- 

conspiciendas   dedit.    Ant-ver.   apud  Sylves-  toria  general  del   Peru ;    Lisbon,    2   vols., 

trum  a  Parisiis."  fol.,  first  vol.,  1 609  (colophon  dated  1 608)  ; 

1  HERRERA,  Decad.   in,  Libr.  vi,    cap.  second  vol.,    1616   and  1617;   Madrid,  2 

xiii,  p.  200.  vols.,  fol.,  1722-23  (best  edit.) 


246  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1  5  2  5*     *  3  3*     FRIES  (LAURENT)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


cart!)cu  o&er  tfartlja  Manual!  Tartu  man  fefen  man  roa 
cuter  in  Her  tuclt  feii  nnu  urn  ein  ietttrf  ||£anbi  Staffer 
unb  3tat  gelege  ift.  Tne  al*  in  be  Imrfltu  jeftnbe.  II 

Colophon  : 

(sktntrtt  ju  Straffing  dott  H  ialjauuco  ©deningen 
Unb  ||  bollcnbct  tiff  unfcr  Sie-  1|  Ben  fratoen  about  Dcr  || 
geBntt.  3«t.  gar  II  1.  5.  2.  5.  ||* 

*#*  Folio,  title   one  leaf  -f-  thirty-three  numbered   leaves  -f-  two 
large  maps,  one  of  which  gives  Cadamosto's  first  voyage. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Washington  city.) 

See  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf  for  the  chapter  : 

$on  America  ein  tci)l  bauuuljic  bef  rfirilien. 

We  have  mislaid  our  memorandum,  and  cannot  state 
our  authority  for  ascribing  the  above  to  the  Lorenz 
Fries,  whom  we  suppose  to  be  the  one  described  by 
Jocher1  in  these  words  : 

"  Gebohren  zu  Mergentheim  in  Franken  1491,  war  wiirtzburgischer 
Rath  und  Archivarius,  applicirte  sich  sonderlich  auf  die  wiirtzbur- 
gischen  Geschichte  wurde  seiner  Geschicklichkeit  und  Wohlreden- 
heit  halber  in  wichtigen  Gesandtchafften  an  die  Kayser  Carl  V  und 
Ferdinand  I  gebraucht,  war  ein  grosser  Beforderer  der  Gelehrten." 


*  Angllce  :  Explanation  of  the  map  of  Printed  at  Strasburg  by  John  Grieninger, 

the  World,  or  Naval  Chart,  wherein  one  and  finished  on  the  evening  of  the  birth  of 

may  see  where  he  is,  and  where  several  our  Dear  Virgin,  in  the  year  1525. 

countries,  seas  and  cities  are  situated.     All  1  Allgtmcincs    Gdchrt.  Lexic.,  Vol.    u, 

of  which  will  be  found  in  this  book.  p.  765. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  247 

134.     PIGAFETTA  (F.  A.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  J  525' 

ft  »mx«fl<  <t  m.  .  *";.,  — 

leg  IBfpaignolt  eg||Jfleg  tre  JBollucqueg.  teg  ifleg 
quilt  II  ont  trouue  autrict  bogage  i  treg  Mogg||  Micelles  i 
tre  leur  gouuernement  r  tnan-||iere  tr  uiureiabec 
plufieurg  aultreg||cf)ofeg.|| 


(I  ©n  les  bentr  a  ^aris  en  la  maifon  fte||g>imon 
tre  ^olineg  i  litratre  lure  ire  lu  ||  niuerftte  tre  ^arijs  i 
Iremourat  en  la  rue||g>aunct  Jefjan  tre  13eauluais  i 
a  lenfet-  1|  gne  tru  Soleil  Hot.  || 

Recto  of  leaf  2  : 

(T  He  bogage  r  nautgation  auac  teleg  tre  ||  Wol= 
lucque  i  treftrtt  r  fatct  tre  nofcle  ||  ftomtne  Entijotne 
^tgapijetta  bins  II  cettm  OTijeualter  tre  Irtijotres  i  pre= 
fentee  a  liijilippe  tre  btlliers  lifle  atratn  ||  grant 
tnatftre  tre  l^ijotres.  commece  II  letrtct  bogage  Ian 
mil  cinq  ceng  trix-  1|  neuf  i  et  tre  retout  JHil.  ccccc.mi. 
le  II  fjustieme  iour  tre  Sqptembre.  y 

End  of  the  text  : 

LIBntremain  i  Entfjoine  pigapfjetta  ||  alia  a  baltrolt  i 
ou  eftoit  lepereur  II  Carles.  iBt  ne  lug  $n? 
fenta  onargentinellcijofe  precieufe  trigne  trung  ft 
grantr  fei-  II  gneut  i  tnaiis  ung  liure  efttipt  trelamain  1  1| 
ou  eftaient  leg  djofes  paffeeisitre  iour  en  ||  iour  tre 
leur  bogage,  IBt  tre  la  fe  partit  a  ||  aller  en  ^or= 
tugal  au  rog  3oan  i  et  lug  trtft  ||  leg  cftofeg  que 


248  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1525.  auoient  beuitat  tres  IBfpai  II  gnolt  qtie  tres  flens. 

^uiis  par  IBfpaigne  ||  bient  en  jfraneeiet  prefenta 

et  feift  aucun  ||  tron  tres  cfjofes  tre  lautre 
pijere  a  la  ||  mete  tru  £res  rfjreftien  ros  tie 
name ||  jfranems  i  matrame  la  regente.  ^uis  bint|| 
en  Hitalieit  prefenta  le  liure  tre  fa  fatigue||a|ii)il=: 
ippes  tre  billiers  i  grantr  iJBaiftre  tre  II  i£i)otres.  \\ 

<E  <£|)  fintt  lextratt  trutrtct  liure  1 1|  translate  tre 
Jtalien  en  II  ,jf raneote.  II 

*..,*  Small  8vo,  sine  anno  (but  not  much  earlier  than  1525,  as  Piga- 
fetta  was  not  made  a  knight  of  Rhodes  until  October,  1524)  ; 
seventy-six  numbered  leaves,  +  f°ur  unnumbered  leaves  con 
taining,  besides  the  table  of  contents,  short  vocabularies  of 
the  language  of  the  "  isle  de  Bresil,  More  de  Tadore,"  and  of 
the  giants  of  Patagonia.  Text  in  black  letter,  marginal  notes 
and  last  four  leaves  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

Francisco-Antonio,  or  Jerome1  Pigafetta,  or  Paga- 
pheta,  an  Italian  nobleman,  who  was  born  at  Vicenza 
towards  the  year  149 12.  He  belonged  to  the  suite  of 
the  embassador  (Francesco  Chiericato),  whom  Leo  X 
sent  in  1510  to  Charles  V3,  then  at  Barcelona.  He  soon 
afterwards  became  the  companion  and  friend  of  Magel 
lan,  whom  he  accompanied  in  his  famous  voyage  around 
the  world  on  board  the  Victoria.  He  was  one  of  the 
sixteen  who  survived4  the  hardships  of  the  voyage. 
(See  supra,  page  228.)  He  died  at  Vicenza  towards  the 
year  1534,  in  a  house  which  was  still  standing  in  1800, 
"  Rue  de  la  Lune5,"  and  which  bore  the  well-known 

mOttO  :     IL   NEST  .   ROSE  .   SANS  .  ESPINE. 


1  P.  Jovius,  Hhtoria    sui   tcmporis    (ab  s  See  his  own  dedication  to  Villiers  de 
anno   1494   ad  ann.    1547);    Florence,  2  I'lsle-Adam,  in  AMORETTI'S  edition, 
vols.,  fol.,  1550-525  lib.  xxxiv.  *  PETER  MARTYR,  Opus  efht.,  epist.  767 

2  MARZARI,  Storia  dl  Vktnxa ;  Venice,  and  770. 

410,    1591  ;    air   anno,    1480    (cited    by  8  AMORETTI'S  valuable  introduction  to 

AMORETTJ,  introd.,  p.  xxxi).  the  French  translation,  p.  xxxv,  note. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  249 

The  bibliographical   history   of  his    account  of  that    IC25- 
memorable  undertaking  seems  to  be  as  follows  :  __—__.... 

Whilst  at  sea,  Pigafetta  kept  a  diary,  a  copy  of  which 
he  afterwards  presented  to  Charles  V,  of  Spain,  at  Val- 
ladolid.  On  his  return  to  Italy,  by  means  of  the 
original  of  that  journal,  and  other  notes,  and  at  the 
request  of  Pope  Clement  VII3,  and  of  the  Great-  Master 
Villiers  de  1'Isle  Adam,  Pigafetta  wrote  a  fuller  account 
of  the  expedition.  Of  this  he  made  a  few  copies,  which 
were  presented  to  several  high  personages,  one  of  whom 
was  Louise  de  Savoy,  mother  to  Francis  I  of  France. 
Louise  not  being  able  to  understand,  we  imagine,  the 
kind  of  patois  used  by  Pigafetta,  and  which  resembles 
a  mixture  of  Italian  or  Venitian  and  Spanish,  requested 
one  Jacques  Antoine  Fabre6  to  translate  the  work  into 
French.  Instead  of  giving  a  literal  version,  Fabre  only 
published  a  kind  of  abridgment,  which  is  the  above 
No.  134.  It  should  be  stated,  however,  that  some  critics7 
believe  that  the  work  was  originally  written  in  French  : 
an  opinion  which  seems  to  be  based  upon  two  manu 
scripts,  which  are  still  in  existence  (perhaps  the  same 
described  twice).  Both  are  on  vellum,  illuminated,  and 
in  the  French  language. 

The  first  is  mentioned  in  the  La  Valliere  Catalogue8 
as  follows  : 

"  Navigation   &   discourement  de   la   Indie  Juperieure, 

faicte  par  moi  Anthoine  Pigaphete  Vincentin,  Chevalier  de 

Rhodes  [contains  also  the  treatise  on  the  Sphere].    Folio, 


The  other  manuscript  was  sold  at  one  of  the  Libri 
sales,  and  is  described9  in  these  words  : 

"  PIGAPHETE  (Anthoine).     Navigation  et  descouure- 


•  Du  VERDIER,  Bibliothequtt  franco-its,  that  the  original  account,  "  a  varios  Prin- 

p.  133,  erroneously  says :  "par  translateur  cipes,"    was    "en     Italiano,     Espafiol    y 

incertain."  Portuguese." — Biblioteca  Americana,  MS., 

7  THOMASSY,   in    the    Paris    Bulletin    de  Vcl.  II,  p.  669. 
la    Societe    de    Geographic   for    September,          8  Part  I,  Vol.  Ill,  No.  4537. 
1843.    ALCEDO,  on  the  other  hand,  states          B  Catalogue,  for  1862,  No.  1139. 


250  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

men*  de  la  Inde  superieure  et  ties  Malucque  (sic]  ou  nais- 
sent  les  cloux  de  Girqfley  faicte  par  Anthoine  Pigaphete 
Vincentin  chevallier  de  Rhodes.  Commenceant  en  Fan  Mil 
V"  et  fjlff  (1519).  Manuscrit  du  XVI'  siecle  sur  velin, 
petit  in-folio" 

This  description  is  followed  by  an  interesting  note, 
from  which  we  copy  the  following : 

"  Le  manuscrit  que  nous  decrivons  \c\contientcetterelation  origi 
nate  qu'on  supposait  perdue.  Elle  est  en  fran9ais,  car  Pigafetta  avait  du 
employer  cette  langue  en  s'adressant  au  grand-maitre  de  Rhodes,  qui 
etait  fran9ais.  On  lit  en  effet,  au  has  du  titre  cette  adresse,  '  An- 
thoyne  Pigaphete  Patricie  Vincentin  et  Chevallier  de  Rhodes,  a 
1'Illustrissime  et  tres-excellent  Seigneur  Philippe  de  Villers  L'lleadam, 
inclite  grand-maistre  de  Rhodes,  son  seigneur  osseruatissime.' 

"  Cette  adresse,  remplie  d'italianismes,  ainsi  que  tout  le  reste  de 
1'ouvrage,  offre  une  preuve  de  plus  de  1'originalite  de  cette  redaction 
ecrite  en  francais  par  un  italien. 

"  En  comparant  ce  manuscrit  avec  la  relation  publiee  par  Amoretti, 
on  s'apercoit  que  cette  relation  n'est  qu'un  extrait  et  une  paraphrase, 
souvent  fort  defiguree,  du  texte  fran9ais.  Les  deux  relations  se  suivent 
de  pres,  mais  dans  notre  manuscrit  il  y  a  plus  de  choses.  Elles  sont 
mieux  dites  et  les  noms  sont  ecrits  bien  plus  exactement  que  dans  la 
relation  publiee  par  Amoretti.  Cela  est  surtout  frappant  dans  les 
vocabulaires  des  langues  de  1'Oceanie,  etc.,  que  donne  Pigafetta  et 
que  Fabreviateur  italien  a  souvent  bouleverses." 

Be  that  as  it  may,  Fabre's  abridgment  was  translated 
into  Italian  by  some  unknown  translator,  and  published 
probably  at  Venice  in  1534  (infra),  and  republished  in 
1536  (infra).  Ramusio's  version10  is  only  a  plagiarism 
from  the  latter,  and  not  a  direct  translation  from  Fabre. 

As  Fabre's  garbled  version  is  scarcely  intelligible,  and 
was  the  only  account  known  during  the  last  two  cen 
turies,  we  easily  understand  the  innuendoes  lavished  by 
Ramusio10,  Tiraboschi11  and  De  Pauw12,  who  do  not 
spare  their  epithets  when  speaking  of  Pigafetta's  Viaggio. 

10  Racco/ta,  Vol.  i,  p.  346,  sq.  ia  Rcchcrchcs  tar  les  Amirhains,  Vol.  i, 

11  Storia  d.  Lett.  Italiana,  V.  VII,  p.  a6o.     p.  189. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  251 

Judging  from  certain  manuscript  notes,  preserved  in  the 
Ste.  Genevieve  Library,  their  opinion  is  not  without 
foundation." 

A  very  early  transcript  made,  as  is  supposed,  from 
one  of  Pigafetta's  original  copies,  if  not  from  an  Italian 
translation  of  the  latter,  was  discovered  in  the  Ambro- 
sian  Library  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  by 
one  of  the  librarians,  the  learned  Carlo  Amoretti,  who 
put  the  text  into  good  Italian,  published  it  in  i8oo14, 
and  soon  afterwards  in  French'5.  Pinkerton16  gave  an 
English,  and  Sprengel17  and  Kries'18  German  versions 
of  Amoretti's  original  publication. 

The  Novus  Orbis  of  I555'9,  and  Eden",  give  only  a 
version  of  the  present  No.  134. 


Direct  reference:  f  ANTONIO,  SiUittketa  Hispan.  Nova,  Vol.  n,  page  376. 
MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Tjpogr.,  Vol.  u,  page  773,  note. 
PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  Till,  page  217. 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Pt.  n,  page  114. 
DBS  BROSSES,  Navigations  aux  terra  Australes,  Vol.  I,  page  121. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page    14,  No.  45. 
EBERT,  No.  16814. 
TERNAUX,  No.  31. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  650. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  V,  page  289. 


11  "L'un  des  astronomes  les  plus  savants  dudix-  fT    /«  Milano  MDCCC. 

huitieme  sieclc  crut  devoir  soumettre  le  recit  du  *   *    T                                           .     /. 

voyageur  italien   a   uii   examen  minutieux,  et  il  *        'al&e    4CO,    PP;    237  ,    tour    maps 

prouve,  dans  des  observations  demeurees  manu-  (there  are  twenty-one  in   the  original ;  see 

•crites,  que  Pigafetta  confondit  au  retour,  de  la  Amoretti's  Introduction,  p.  XLIIl). 

facon  la  plus  etrange,  plusieurs  positions  de  terres,  IB   p,..;.      Q.._     i»__    TV    r«f  fk=  TT^.^^k 

aujourd'hui  bien  connues.     Voy.  *«*.«*«  giv-  Hans,    8  vol  an    IX    [of  the  French 

rafhiques  sur  1'etat  et  la  position  des  lieux  ou  Ton  Republic,  I.  «.,   I8OI J. 

pourra    observer  le   passage  de  Venus  avec  plus  >«  Collection  of  Voyages;    London.   410, 

d'avantage,  p.  301  parmi  les  MSS.  de  la  Biblioth.  o         -y   ,                   nn       R 

Stc.  Genevieve."     DENIS,  art.    Magellan,   Keuv.  I8,I9»   V  Ol.  I,  pp    188-38 1. 

BUgr.  ginirali.  Vol.  xxxn,  p.  680,  note.  Bcytragcn,  Vol.  IV,  pp.  1-155.      (We 

14  Primo  Viagglo  intorno  al  Globo   Ter-  are  unable  to  state  whether  it  is  in  the  first 

racquco  ossia  ragguaglio  della  Navigazione  series,  published  in  conjunction  with  J.  R. 

alle  Indie  Oriental!  per  la  via  d'Occidcnte  FORSTER,    his    father-in  law,    Leipzig,    14 

fatta  dal  Cavallere  Antonio   Pigafetta  Pa-  vols.,    8vo,    1781-90,    or    in    the    second 

trizio  yiccntino,  Sulla   SyuaJra   del  Capit.  series,  published  by  SPRENGEL  alone,  Halle, 

Magaglianes  negli  anni   1519-1522      Ora  13  vols.,  8vo,  1790-94.) 

pubblicato  per  la  prima  vo/ta,  tratto  da  un  I8  Bcschrcibung  der  von  Magellan  untcr- 

Codice  MS.  della  Bibiiotcca  Ambrosiana  di  nommenen  ersten  Reise  urn  die  Welt ;  Gotha, 

Milano  e  corredato  di  note  Da  Carlo  Amo-  8vo,  1801,  3  maps. 

retti  Dottore  del  Collegia  Ambrosiano.      Con  18  Pages  524-538. 

un  Transunto  del  Trattato  di  Navigazionc  ao  History   of  Travayle  ,•    London,    4to, 

dello  itesso  Autort.  !577>  f«l-  43°- 


252  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I525*  *35'     CORTES  (FERNANDO)—  Within  a  harder,  and  under  the 

__  double-headed  eagle  coat-of-arms  : 

Ha  qnarta  relation  5  ;jfernairo  corteg  goner  || 
nairor  g  capitan  general  por  fn  majeftair  enlali 
nnena  3Bfpaita  fll  mar  oceano  emMo  al  mng  ||  alto 
r  mug  potentiftimo  innicttttimo  fenor  II  iron  Carlos 
emperairor  femper  angnfto  g  II  reg  ire  3Efpana  nneftro 
feftor:  enla  pal  eftan||otras  cartag  o  relactones 
qne  log  eapttaneg  IHIetrro  fce  alnaratro  r  litego 
goljog  emMallron  al  trtcjjo  capttan  jFernartro  [«v] 
cortex.  || 

Colophon  : 

jFne  intpregga  la  prefente  earta  tre  relactonll 
enla  gmperial  eintratr  ire  Coletro  por  (Bagpar  tre 
antla.HEcatose  a  begntetrtag  trel  meg  ireiOHtnto.il 
Mo  irel  nafcimiento  ire  nneftro  falna-||iror  Jefn 
eijrifto  ire  mil  r  qntnten  ||  tog  r  begnte  g  einco  || 


Folio,  twenty-one  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title, 
on  the  verso  of  which  the  text  begins.  Signatures  a  in  six,  b 
and  c  in  eights,  including  the  blank  at  the  end. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


This  first  edition  of  the  Fourth  Narration  relates  from 
May  i  fth,  1522,  to  October  I5th,  1524.  The  last 
sixteen  pages  contain  Alvarado's  and  Godoy's  reports 
to  Cortes. 

Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annahs  Typogr.,  Vol.  x,  page  a8,  No.  6.  b. 
Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  vn,  No.  1884. 
Biblicithcca  Grenvilliana,  page  1  66. 
Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  page   14,  No.  44. 
Stevens''  American  Bibliographer,  page  85. 
TERNAUX,  No.  34. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  311. 

*  Anglice  :  The  fourth  relation  which     General  for  His  Majesty  in  New  Spain  of 
Fernando  Cortes,  Governor  and  Captain-     the   Oceanic   Sea,  sent   to   the  very  high 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 

136.    "  CLAVDII    PTOLEMAEI  Geographicac  ennara-    1525. 
tionis    Libri    o6to     Bilibaldo    Pirckeymero    interprete.  = 

Annotationes  Joannis  de  Regiomonte  in  errores  com- 
miflbs  a  Jacobo  Angelo  in  tranflatione  fua.  In  fine  : 
Argentoragi  (sic)  Johannes  Grieningerus,  communibus  Jo- 
hannis  Koberger  impenjis  excudebat  Anno  a  Chrifti  Nativi- 
tate.  M.DXXV.  Tertio  Kaly  Apriles.  fol.1"  (82  gez.  u. 
14  ungez.  Bll.  m.  50  Tabulae  geographicae  in  Holzchn.1) 
"  Containing  a  map  of  part  of  America,  dated  I5223." 

VARTHEMA-D  I  AS—  Above  a  large  vignette: 

-5 


Jtinerario  ire  Hutiouico  litre  5Eattf)ema  $3olognefe 
nello  IBggtto,  nella  g>u||rta,  nella  &rairia  treferta, 
r  jFeltce,  neila  $erfta  r||neiia  Jntrta,  r  nella  iEt|)g=: 
opia.  Ha  fetre,  el  biuere,  r  coftumi  trelle  prefate 
^prouittcie.  (E  ISt  al  prefente  ||  agiontoui  aleune 
Jfole  nouamente  titrouate. 

Colophon  : 

C  Impreffo  in  Venetia  Nellano  della 
In  ||  carnatione  del  noftro  Signore  lefu  || 
Chrifto  del.  M.D.XXVL  Adi.  XVI.  Aprile. 
Regnando  Lo  Inclito  ||  Principe  An/drea 
Griti 


*!fc*  Sm.  8vo;  title  one  leaf  (printed  in  red  and  black)  +  one  hun 
dred  and  one  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  index. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Brooklyn.) 


and    mighty    King    of  Spain    our  Lord  ;  *  PANZER,  Annalei  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  p. 

in   which   are  other  letters   and   relations  107,  No.  698. 

which    Captains    Peter  de    Alvarado    and  a  HOFFMANN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  in,  p.  319. 

Richard    Godoy    sent   to    the    said    Cap-  s  Aspinwall  Catalogue,  No.  6.     (Three 

tain  Fernando  Cortes.     The  present  Epis-  thousand  out  of  three  thousand  five  hun- 

tolary   Relation   was  printed    in    the  Im-  dred  volumes,  which  composed  this  collec- 

perial  City  of  Toledo  by  Caspar  de  Avila.  tion,  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  New  York, 

Finished  October  aoth,  A.  D.  1525.  Sept.  i8th,  1864.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

~  J  ~T 

1^26.  i  3  3 .     CORTES  (FERNANDO)— Within  a  narrow  border,  and  be- 

aj-.-j fss  iow  a  large  escutcheon  of  Spain,  filling  one  half  of  the  page : 

Ha  patta  telacifi  t|ue  4fetnStro  cottes  go  II  net? 
natrot  g  capita  genetal  pot  fumageftatr||enla  nueua 
iBfpana  trelmat  oceano  etio  al||mug  alto  r  mug 
potenttttimo  tnuictittimo  ||  Mot  ton  Otatlos  m? 
petatrot  fempet  agufto  g  teg  5fpana||mo  Mot, 
enla  qual  eftan  ottas  cattas  g  telaciones  que-|| 
los  capttanes  ^etrto  tre  aluatatro  e  2iiego  gotrog 
emtta  ||  ton  al  tricljo  capitan  jpetnattro  cottes.  || 

Colophon  : 

jpue  tmptenffa  la  ptefente  cattatrete||lactfi  trelas 
Jntrias :  enla  mettopolttana  ||  ciutratr  tre  Valencia 
pot  <©eot  ||  ge  coftilla  Ecafto^e  a  xij.  ||  trtas  ^l 
tre  5u  ||  Uo  ano  tie  ||  mil.  tr.*:tbj.  A  anos.f 


*3|t*  Folio,  twenty-six  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title, 
on  the  verso  of  which  the  text  begins ;  double  columns ; 
b  in  eights. 

(Providence  Private  Library.     Only  copy  known.) 

Second  edition  of  D  (No.  135). 


Dinct  rtferencet :  f  Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  14,  No.  47. 
•j  Stevens1  American  Bibliographer,  page  85. 
(  BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  312. 


*  We  find  in  GRAESSE  (Vol.  in,  p.  93) 
on  the  authority  of  one  of  the  Butsch  cata 
logues,  "  Glareanus,  Hen-.  Loritus — De 
geographia  liber  j.  Basil.  1526.  in  4°." 
This  edition  of  1526  is  not  mentioned  in 
any  other  work,  nor  have  we  yet  succeeded 
in  finding  it  in  any  collection.  The  edition 
of  1527  (infra)  is  considered  the  first; 
K.LOSS  calls  (Catalogue  No.  1727)  that  of 


1528  (infra]  "  Ed.  ii,"  while  the  Athtnat 
Rauricae  (p.  251)  says  of  a  Franckfort  edi 
tion  of  1533  "ab  ipso  auctore  tertio  recog- 
nitus." 

f  Anglice  :  The  present  Epistolary  Re 
lation  about  the  Indies  was  printed  in 
the  metropolitan  city  of  Valencia  by 
George  Costilla,  and  finished  July  I2th, 
1526.  The  rest  as  in  D. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  255 

.     OflEDO  (G.  F.  DE)  —  Under    the    Imperial    coat-of-armi 
with  the  double-beaded  eagle,  and  within  a  border  : 


OlUcbn  be  la  natural  l)i) 
0taria  fa  Ia0  ^nMa0. 
«  Can  pmiUfgta  lie  la 
*.  C  C.  JB. 

/Vrj/  /w<?  lines  of  the  verso  of  the  title-page: 

Samaria  trela  natural  g  general  ||  tftoria  trelag 
Jnfctas.    que    eftrtuio  <§ficalo  jperna^et  tre 


Colophon  : 

(L  iBl  jtfente  tratatro  in||titulatro  ©utetro  tre  la 
natural  ijgftnria  ||  5  lass  intrtas  fe  tmprtmto  a  coftag 
tiel  au  ||  tor  (Eofalo  jpernatre^  ire  ©utetro  al's  tre  || 
Saltres.  ^or  tntruftria  ire  maeftre  icU||mfi  tre 
petras:  r  fe  acato  en  la  cibiatr  tre  ||  ^Eoletro  a.  xb. 
trtas  trel  mes  tre  ®etrero.  litre.  ^.B.xxbj.  anos. 

x*^  Folio,  fifty-two  numbered  leaves  -\-  two  unnumbered   leaves 
for  part  of  the  index  ;  five  woodcuts. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington,  and 
Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  Valdes  was  born 
at  Madrid,  probably  in  August,  1478',  of  an  aristocratic 
family,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  received  the  appoint- 


1  The  words  which  we  here  underscore  the  original  MS.  of  Oviedo's  Batallat  y 
"  aunque  he  setenta  annos  [in  1548],  e  los  S^uinquagenai,  preserved  in  the  Libr.  of  the 
comfli  en  el  met  de  agosto,"  are  effaced  in  Real  Acad.  de  la  Historia,  in  Madrid. 


256  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1C 26.  merit  of  mozo  de  camaraz  (a  kind  of  page),  to  Prince 
,  John3.  He  soon  afterwards  witnessed  at  Granada,  as 
one  of  the  Court,  the  reception  extended  to  Columbus 
by  Ferdinand  and  Isabella  on  his  return  in  1493  from 
the  newly  rediscovered  world4.  After  taking  a  part  in 
the  Italian  campaigns3,  he  married,  in  1502,  Margarita 
de  Vergara,  "  una  de  las  mas  hermosas  mugeres  que  ovo 
en  su  tiempo  en  el  reino  de  Toledo5." 

In  1512  he  was  deputed  to  act  as  secretary  to  Gon- 
zalvo  de  Cordova ;  but  he  soon  afterwards  determined 
to  repair  to  the  Indies,  for  the  purpose  of  retrieving  his 
fortune6,  or  for  a  very  different  reason,  if  we  are  to 
believe  the  statement  made  by  the  unreliable  De  Pauw7, 
on  the  authority  of  the  trustworthy  Fallopius.  He 
joined  the  expedition  of  Pedrarias  Davila,  not  in  the 
capacity  of  "Inspecteur  general  du  Commerce8,"  or  of 
"  Directeur  des  Tnines  de  Saint-Domingue9,"  but  as  a 
supervisor  of  gold-smeltings10;  and  sailed  to  the  new 
World  for  the  first  time,  from  San  Lucar  de  B.,  April 
iith,  1514".  He  filled  abroad  several  high  positions, 
such  as  Governor  of  the  Province  of  Carthagena,  and 
First  Alderman  (Adelante  Regidor)  of  Darien,  in  con 
junction,  as  it  seems,  with  his  office  of  supervisor  (Vee- 
dor],  which  he  resigned  only  in  1532",  when  he  was 
appointed  Chief  Chronicler  of  the  Indies  (Cronista  gen 
eral  de  Indias).  Oviedo  resided  on  this  continent  up 
wards  of  thirty-four  years3,  and  crossed  the  Atlantic 
not  less  than  twelve  times,  chiefly  on  missions  to  lay 
the  grievances  of  the  colonies,  or  his  own,  before  the 
Spanish  Court.  He  returned  to  Spain  for  the  last 


1  DE  FRANKENAU,  Bill.  Hisfan.,  p.  174.  T  Rech.  sur  les  Amiricaim,  Vol.  i,  p.  22. 

*  BAENA,  Hijos  de  Madrid;   Madrid,  4  e  MORERI,  Vol.  vi,  p.  97  of  letter  O. 
vols.,  410,  1789-91,  Vol.  u,  p.  354.  °  TERNAUX,     Bibliotheque     Americaine, 

*  OVIEDO,   Historia   Gen.  y  Nat.  de  In-  No.  35. 

dias,  lib.  n,  cap. Til,  p.  29  (Madrid  reprint).  I0  "Veedorde  las  Fundaciones  de  Oro." 

8  Quinquagenas,  in  DE  LOS  Rios'  intro-  OVIEDO,  loc.  cit.,  Vol.  in,  p.  4. 

duction  p.  xx,  note.  "  DE  LOS  Rios,  loc.  cit.,  p.  XXII. 

*  "  ganoso  de  reponer  su  malparada  ha-  ia  Letter  of  Oviedo,  afud  DC  LOS  Rios, 
cienda,"  DE  LOS  Rios,  loc.  cit.  loc.  cit.,  p.  LTIII,  note. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  257 

time  in  June,  1556,  and  died  in  the  summer  of  1557,     1526. 
at  Valladolid. 

Navarrete13,  Prescott14  and  Mr.  Ticknor15  have  given 
an  estimate  of  Oviedo's  works  and  character.  The  fol 
lowing,  from  Las  Casas,  is  not  without  originality  : 
"  Puesto  que  a  la  historia  de  Oviedo  llevana  en  la 
frente  escrito  como  su  autor  habia  sido  conquistador, 
robador  y  matador  de  los  Indios,  y  haber  echado  en  las 
minas  gentes  dellos,  en  las  cuales  perecieron ;  y  enemigo 
cruel  dellos  como  se  dira  y  el  mismo  la  confiera,  al  me- 
nos  entre  los  prudentes  y  cristianos  enervos  poco  credito 
y  auctoridad  en  historia  tuviera16." 

Oviedo  was  a  prolific  writer,  but  the  first  of  his  works 
which  interests  us  is  the  present  No.  139.  It  is  not 
a  "  Summary  of  the  Spanish  Conquests  in  the  New 
World'5,"  or  the  first  edition  of  the  Historia  General  y 
Natural  de  las  Indias,  published  in  1535  (see  infra),  but 
a  totally  different  work,  which  may  have  served  as  a 
model  for  the  useful  compilations  of  Acosta,  Nierem- 
berg  and  Francisco  Hernandez.  We  have  the  original 
edition  before  us,  but  beg  leave  to  insert  the  following 
analysis,  which  we  copy  from  the  extremely  valuable 
introduction  added  by  Senor  D.  J.  Amador  de  los 
Rios  to  the  late  reprint  of  Oviedo's  chief  work17: 

"  Este  repertorio,  dirigido  principalmente  a  dar  a  conocer  al  Em- 
perador  las  cosas  de  America,  se  halla  distribuido  en  ochenta  y  seis 
capitulos,  en  los  cuales,  despues  de  tratar  de  la  navegacion  de  Espafia 
a  las  Antillas  y  de  los  naturales  de  estas  islas,  asi  como  de  sus  cos- 
tumbres  y  manjares,  pasa  Oviedo  a  describir  los  indios  de  la  Tierra- 
Firme,  bosquejando  tambien  sus  ritos,  costumbres  y  ceremonias,  y 
exponiendo  las  peregrinas  noticias  que  habia  recogido  sobre  los  ani- 

"  Coleccion,  Vol  I,  introd.  p.  LXXVI.  Indians,  whole   populations   of  whom   he 

14  Hist,  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  Vol.  consigned  to  the  mines,  where  they  per- 

I,  p.  1 1  a.  ished,"  &c. 

16  Hist,  of  Spanish  Literature,  Vol.  II,  — Gen.  Hist,  de  las  Tndias,  MS.  cap. 

p.  34.  XXIII. 

10  "Oviedo  should  have  written  at  the  1T  Historia  General  y  Natural  de  las 

head  of  his  history  :  This  book  was  written  Indias.  Publicala  la  Real  Acadcmia  de 

by  a  conqueror,  robber  and  murderer  of  the  la  Historia,  cotejada  con  el  cddice  original ; 

33 


258  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

I  C2O»  males,  aves  e  insectos,  arboles,  plantas  y  yerbas  de  tan  distantes 
regiones.  Terminada  esta  parte,  que  tanto  interes  ofrecia  entonces  a 
las  ciencias  zoologica  y  botanica,  menciona  Oviedo  las  minas  de  oro 
de  la  Tierra-Firme,  y  mostrandose  entendido  en  el  laboreo  de  ellas, 
pondera  sus  riquezas,  describiendo,  por  ultimo,  la  pesqueria  no  menos 
envidiable  de  las  perlas,  que  tanto  abundaban  en  aquellos  mares.  El 
Sumario  de  la  Natural  Historia  acaba  mostrando  el  camino  de  la  mar 
del  Sur,  y  descubriendo  al  Cesar  la  facilidad  de  acudir  por  el  estrecho 
de  Magallanes  al  comercio  y  contratacion  de  las  Malucas." 

This  work  has  been  republished  by  Barcia18*  Ramu- 
sio  gave  an  Italian  version'9,  and  there  is  a  kind  of  Sum 
mary  in  Purchas10.  We  have  been  unable  to  find  the 
translation  into  Latin  by  Chauveton,  mentioned  by 
Senor  de  los  Rios.  We  think  it  erroneous,  and  prob 
ably  a  misapprehension  of  the  Latin  Benzoni.  The 
"editio  princeps"  discovered  in  the  Leipsic  University, 
and  mentioned  by  Humboldt21,  is  only  the  edition  of 
1547  (see  infra}. 

The  copy  before  us,  like  all  those  of  Oviedo's  works 
printed  in  his  lifetime,  which  we  have  seen,  bears  on  the 
title-page  the  autograph  of  the  author. 

Historians  are  apt  to  overlook  incidents,  which, 
although  unnecessary  to  enable  the  reader  to  obtain  a 
full  view  of  the  field  which  they  intend  to  depict,  acquire 
nevertheless  a  certain  importance  when  we  wish  to 
obtain  an  insight  into  motives  and  personal  characteris 
tics.  This  is  the  reason  why  correspondances,  private 
memoirs,  diaries,  are  so  eagerly  sought  by  those  who 
are  anxious  to  know  men  as  well  as  events.  There  are 
two  precious  collections  of  the  kind,  composed  by 
Oviedo,  but  which  never  were  printed.  The  first  is : 

Batallas  y  £)uinquagenasy  escriptas  por  el  capitan  Gonqalo 
Fernandez  de  Oviedo,  criado  del  prin^ipe  don  Johan,  hijo 
de  los  Reyes  Catholicos,  y  coronista  mayor  de  las  Indias,  del 
Emperador  Carlos  V  (1550)"' 


Madrid,    4   vols.,    fol.,    1851-55.       Page  20  Pi/grimes,  Part  u,  Lib.  v,  p.  970,  sy. 

xxxviil  (i.e.,  LXXXVIII.)  ™  Ex  amen    Critique,  Vol.  in,   p.    283, 

18  Hiitoriadores  primiti-vos,  Vol.  I,  70  pp.  note. 

l*  Raccolta,  Vol.  in,  fol.  44-74.  "  DE  LOS  Rios,  loc.  cit.,  p.  xcm. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  259 

It  is  a  work  which  purports  to  transmit  to  posterity    1C 26. 
the  heroic  deeds  of  his  contemporaries. 
The  other  bears  the  following  title : 

Las  Quinquagenas  de  los  generosos  e  illustres  'e  no  menos 
famosos  reyes,  prin^ipes,  duques,  marqueses  y  condes  e  cabal- 
leros  e  personas  notables  de  Espana  :  que  escribio  el  capitan 
Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  V aides,  Alcayde  de  Sus  Magestades 
de  la  fortale^a  de  la  cibdad  e  puerto  de  Sancto  Domingo  de 
la  Is/a  Espanola,  coronista  de  las  Indias,  islas  'e  Tierra- 
Firme  del  Mar  O^eano,  ve^ino  e  regidor  desta  cibdad,  e 
natural  de  la  muy  noble  e  leal  'villa  de  Madrid.  Fue  esta 
obra  desde  las  Indias  enviada  e  present ada  al  Serenissimo 
Principe  D.  Felipe,  nuestro  Senor^  [1555-1556]. 

This  aims  at  ££  memorar  los  famosos  varones  de  nues- 
tra  Espana,  tanto  en  armas  como  en  letras  y  virtudes." 

We  know  these  two  works  solely  from  the  excellent 
analysis  given  by  Clemencin24,  and  which  is  the  fullest, 
if  not  the  only  reliable  one.  We  trust  that  the  Real 
Academia  de  la  Historia,  which  has  already  done  so 
much  for  Oviedo,  will  yet  publish  these  interesting  dia 
logues. 

Direct  references:  C  LEON  PINELO,  Epitome,  page  127. 

-|   MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  x,  Part  n,  page  326. 
I    PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  X,  page  29,  No.  76. 
RICH,  No.  6. 
TERNAUX,  No.  35. 
EBERT,  No.  15603. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  299. 
Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  916 
Butsch  Catalogue,  page  26,  No.  394. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page   14,  No.  46. 

33  TERNAUX,  introd.  to  OVIEDO'S  His-  for  the  loan  of  it ;  but  when  last  in  Bos- 

toire  du  Nicaragua,  in  Recucil,  1840.  ton  we  vainly  endeavored  to  find  the  MS., 

24  Mem.  de  la  Acad.  de  Historia  ;  Mad-  either  in  that  city  or  in  the  Harvard  Coll. 

rid,  Vol.  vi,  Illust.  10.  Libr.,  to  which  Prescott  bequeathed  the 

There  must  be  a  copy  of  the  MS.  works  which  he  consulted  for  his  History  of 

Quinquagcnas  in  Boston,  as  Mr.  Ticknor  Ferdinand  and  Isabella.  See  a  curious  note 

acknowledges  his  obligation  to  Prescott  in  DE  LOS  RIGS'  introduction,  p.  xciv. 


160  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1527.  I4O.     LA  SALLE  (ANT.  Z>E)-ILa    Sb&lltiJt    ,$tOU  |f  tiel= 

lemet  Jmprimee  II  a  $aris  Haquelle  fait  ||  mention 
tie  tous  less  pass  tru  monire  i  et  &u  pagg  fce  II  la  foelle 
fifcille.  Euec  la  figure  pour  aller  aumont  II  tre  la 
Iricte  ffoille.  3Bt  autti  la  figure  ire  la  mer  r  ire  ||  la 
terreiauec  plufieurg  teller  remonftrances. 

IBt  fe  bentrent  a  3|arte  par  OTilippe  He  Jtoir  II 
l&etteur  iure  en  luniberfite  ire^arisitremourantien 
la  grat  rue  Spinet  Sacques;  a  lefeigne  tre  la  i&oje  II 
tlanc^e  couronnee, 

("  a  la  fin  du  6oe  f.  :  Cy  finis t  ce  present  liure  nouuellement  jmprime 
en  la  Rue  Sainct  iacques,  a  lenseigne  de  la  Rose  blanche  couronnee  etfut 
acbeue  le  xiij  tour  de  mars  mil  cinq  centz  xxvij." — BRUNET.) 

*}|c*  410,  Goth,  a  2  colonnes  fig.  en  bois  [  "  pet.  in-fol.  goth.  de 
Ix  ff.  chifFr.  et  2  fF.,  pour  la  table  des  chapitres  et  la  marque 
de  1'imprimeur,  titre  rouge  et  noir.  On  trouve  dans  1'inte- 
rieur  (ff.  15  et  27)  ou  a  la  fin,  deux  cartes  gravees  en  bois,  et 
pliees,  1'une  du  mont  de  la  Sibylle  et  1'autre  representant  la 
mappemonde." — BRUNEI-*.] 

(Ste.  Genevieve  Libr.,  Paris'.) 

"  La  Salade  est  un  ouvrage  des  plus  curieux  en  dehors  de  la  partie 
geographique,  mais  le  chapitre  consacre  a  la  Geographic  est  bien  sur- 
prenant  en  lui-meme  ;  il  signale  a  deux  reprises  diverses  le  Greenland. 
II  y  a  mieux,  lorsque  il  etablit  certaines  generalites  sur  ces  terres  du 
Nord,  il  semble  qu'un  bruit  vague  lui  apporte  certaines  effluves  faisant 
pressentir  la  demi-civilisation  des  terres  americaines." 

(M.  FERDINAND  DENIS.) 

The  chapter  alluded  to  by  M.  Denis,  contains  (verso 
of  leaf  xxvin),  the  following  passage  : 

$,ortoegije  eft  une  grantre  region  attife  irettouts 
ire  pol  Entarctique.  &ulcuns  aftrologues  ont  bne 

9  There  is  an  edition,  with  privilege  BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  854,  and  Solar 
dated  1521  (/.  e.  1521  new  style).  See  Catalogue,  p.  404,  No.  4473. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  261 

partie  ire  eefte  Region  mife  Jjors  ires  elimatj  aeaufe  1527, 
ires  tres  apres  et  longues  froiirures  qui  g  font. 
ISn  teelle  Region  font  iriuerfes  mers.  Ha  eft  la 
met  eongellee  que  on  irict  J&are  eongellatum.  Jl  g  a 
une  tfle  nommee  iflantiou  font  les  pags  nommes 
Olronnellont  et  untmarci)  [  ?  ]  on  a  grant  quantite 
ire  ours  qui  fot  toug  tlas. 

Antoine  de  La  Sale,  one  of  the  wittiest  of  French 
writers,  lived  between  the  years  1398  and  1461.  The 
present  work,  which  was  composed  for  his  pupil  John 
of  Anjou,  Duke  of  Calabria,  seems  to  have  been  written 
between  1438  and  1447',  and  places  its  facetious  author 
side  by  side  with  Adam  of  Bremen4,  Ordericus  Vitallis5, 
Torn6,  Rafn7  and  Karl  Wilhelm8. 


Direct  reference :  f     La  Valliere  Catalogue,  No.  4573. 
-I  *  BRUNET,  Vol.  in.  col.  853. 
(      GRAESSE,VO!.  iv,  page  in. 


141.  FRIES  (LAURENT)—"  Underweifung  vnd  vflle- 
gunge  der  Cartha  Marina  oder  die  mercarten  darin 
man  fehen  mag,  wa  einer  in  d  welt  fey,  und  wa  ein 
ytlich  Land,  WafTer  und  Stet  ligen,  Straffb.  Grieninger 
(1527.  in-fol.  Av.  fig.  en  bois)." 

(GRAESSE1.) 

3  AUBRY,    Bulletin    du    Bouquiniste)  for  yua,   seu   parth   America    Scptcntrionalis ; 
Jan.  1859,  p.  5.  Copenhagen,  8vo,  1705. 

4  Historic  ecclesiastics  eccles.  Hamburg.  7  Antlq-vitatcs  Americana  siue  serif  tores 
et   Bremensis,  "vicinorumque   locor.   septcnt.,  septentrionales    rerum    ante-Columbianarum 
ab  anno   788,  ad   1076,  lib.   iv ;   Copen-  in  America ;  Copenhagen,  410,  1837. 
hagen,   410,    1579;    Leyden,   4to,    1595;  8  Island,     Hvitramannaland,     Gronland 
Helmstaedt,  4to,  1 670.  und  Finland  oder   der   Normanner   Leben 

6  Historic    ecclesiastic*    libri   tredecim  ;  auf  Island  und  deren  Fahrten  nach  Amerik, 

Paris,  5  vols.,  8vo,  1840—45.  schon  iiber  500  jf.  vor  Columbus;   Heidel- 

6  Grcenlandia   Antiqua  ;    Copenhagen,  berg,  8vo,  i84z. 
8vo,  1706;  and    Historia  Vinlandiie  anti-          1   Tresor,  Vol.  n,  p.  635. 


262  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

IC27.  142.     LORITZ  OR    GLAREANUS— Within  a  wide  border: 

D.  HEN||RICI  GLAREANI  ||  POETAE  LAVREA|| 
TI  DE  GEOGRA||PHTA  LIBER  ||VNVS.|| 
BASILEAE,  ANNO  ||  M.D.XXVII.  || 

Colophon  : 

BASILEAE,       ANNO   ||    M.D.XXVII.        EXCVDEBAT 
IOANNES    FA  ||  BER    EMMEVS    IVLIACENSIS.  ||* 

*x*  Sm.  410  ;  title  one  leaf  +  thirty-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"II  n'y  a  rien  de  plus  interessant  pour  1'histoire  des  grandes 
decouvertes  geographiques  des  15"  et  l6e  siecles,  que  des  uivre  les 
recits  des  cosmographes  contemporains  qui  nous  font  connaitre  la 
maniere  dont  la  connaissance  de  ces  decouvertes  s'est  repandue  parmi 
les  peuples  europeens.  On  sait  qu'il  fallut  assez  longtemps  pour 
populariser  la  connaissance  du  Nouveau  Continent,  et  meme  Henri 
Loritus  Glareanus,  1'un  des  plus  celebres  cosmographes  du  moyen  age, 
quoique  la  premiere  edition  de  sa  geographic  dont  nous  venons  de 
donner  le  titre,  ait  paru  plus  de  trente  ans  apres  sa  decouverte,  ne 
fait  qu'une  mention  passagere  de  1'Amerique,  ce  qui  prouve  le  peu 
de  connaissance  qu'il  en  a  eu.  Dans  le  dernier  chapitre  [Recto  of 
leaf  35],  en  parlant  des  regions  non  decrites  par  Ptolemee,  il  dit  entr'- 
autres  :  '  Porro  ad  occidentem  terra  eft,  quam  Americam  uocant, 
longitudine  octoginta  ferme  graduum.  Duas  infulae  Spagnolla  et 
Ifabella  :  qus  quide  regiones  fecundum  littora  ab  Hifpanis  luftratae 
funt,  Columbo  Genuenfi,  et  Americo  Vefputio  eius  navigationis  duci- 
bus.  Sunt  qui  putent  tempore  Casfaris  Augufti  earn  terram  fuifle 
notam,  atque  ;  Marone,  lib.  6.  [759-7]  Aene.  de  ea  hasc  protulifle  car- 
mina  : 

" '  lacet  extra  fydera  tellus, 

Extra  anni  folifque  uias,  ubi  coelifer  Atlas 
Axem  humero  torquet,  ftellis  ardentibus  aptum. 

" '  Hoc  de  Aethiopia  Maurorum  Seruius  intellexit.  Landinus  aute  nul- 
lam  Aethiopiam  extra  zodiacum  iacere  contendit.  Itaque  iple  exponit 
extra,  id  eft,  pene  extra.  Porro  Donatus  folem  pro  die,  annum  pro 
nocte  pofitum  ait.  Nos  rem  incertam  indicio  lectoris  relinquimus1.'  " 


*  Anglict :  One  book  on  geography  by  J  "  Farther  towards  the  west,  lies  a 
Henry  Glareanus,  poet  laureate.  Basle,  country  called  America,  the  length  of 
executed  by  John  Faber,  1527.  which  is  about  eighty  degrees.  There  are 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  263 

Although  Henry  Loritz  of  Glaris  when  a  young  man 
held  the  chair  of  Mathematics  in  the  University  of 
Basle,  and  wrote  two  works  on  strictly  scientific  subjects 
(the  above  and  his  De  Ponderibus  et  Mensuris*,  not  to 
speak  of  the  Comment,  in  Arithmet.  et  Music.  BoethiP), 
he  scarcely  deserves  the  name  of  "  celebre  cosmographe." 
Born  in  148  8y,  he  was  better  known  as  a  poet  who  sang 
his  verses,  as  a  musician  who  played  on  several  instru 
ments  and  wrote  a  great  deal  on  the  subject  of  music, 
as  one  of  the  greatest  literary  critics  of  his  day,  as  a 
reformer,  as  the  friend  of  Erasmus,  but  especially  as  the 
precursor  of  Beaufort  and  Niebuhr6in  those  investiga 
tions  which  have  shown  the  unreliable  character  of  the 
Latin  historians,  at  least  as  regards  the  origin  and  early 
history  of  Rome.  He  held  for  several  years  the  pro 
fessorship  of  Belles-Lettres  in  the  college  of  France 
then,  and  ever  since  so  famous  ;  and  died  at  Friburg 
in  1563.  "  Vossius  dit  que  c'etait  un  homme  univer- 
sellement  savant."7 


Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annalti  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  262. 
Bibliotheca  TAottiana,  Vol.  v,  page  219. 
Bibliotheca  Bar/oiviana,  page  12. 
D'AVEZAC,  Projections  G'eographiques,  page  68. 
Libri  Catalogue  for   1861,  No.  324,  (describes  a  copy  containing 

Loritz'  own  annotations  and  autograph). 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  162,4. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  in,  page  93. 


two  islands,  Spagnolla  and  Isabella.    Those  declares   that   there   is   no  Ethiopia  lying 

countries  have  been  visited  along  the  coasts  beyond  the  Zodiac.     Therefore  he  himself 

by  the  Spaniards,  Columbo  of  Genoa  and  explains  'beyond, '-as  meaning  'almost  be- 

Americo  Vesputio  being  the  leaders  of  the  yond.'     Besides,  Donatus  says  that  'Sun' 

navigation.     There  are  people  who  believe  stands   for  '  day,"   and  '  year'   for   '  night.' 

that  in  the  times  of  Caesar  Augustus  that  We   leave   this   uncertain    matter    to   the 

country  was  known,  and  that  Virgil  in  the  judgment  of  the  reader." 

vith  book,  verses  795-97  of  the  ^neid,          a  Bibliotheque  Amirtcalncy  p.  3,  No.  3. 

wrote  the  following  lines  concerning  the         3  Basle,  fol.,  1550. 

same:    'Their  land  lies  without  the  signs          4  Basle,  4to,  1570. 

[of  the  Zodiac],  beyond  the  Sun's  annual          5  Athenae  Rauricae  ;    Basle,  8vo,  1778, 

course,  where  Atlas,  supporting  heaven  on  p.  247,  sq. 

his  shoulders,  turns  the  axle  studded  with         *  MICHELET,  H'ntoire  Romaine,  Vol.  i, 

flaming    stars.'      Servius    understood    this  p.  2. 

of  the  Morish    Ethiopia;    but    Landinus         1  af.  BAILLET, yugcments,  V.  if,  p.  303. 


264  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1C  28.      I43«     LORITZ  OR   GLARE  ANUS—  Within  a  wide  border: 

HENRICI  ||  GLAREANI,  POET^  LAV  ||  REATI 
DE  GEOGRA- 1|  PHIA  LIBER  VNVS,  AB  IPSO  AV- 
THORE  ||  IAM  RECOGNITVS.  ||  BASILEAE.  || 

Verso  of  signature  A  2  .- 

Bafileae  ex  Collegio  no-  ||  ftro.  Anno  a 
natali  Chrifti,  ||  M.D.XXVIL 

Colophon  : 

BASILEAE  .  ANNO  ||  M  .  D  .  XXVIII  .  ||  EXCVDE- 
BAT  IOANNES  FA- 1|  BER  EMMEVS  IVLIACENSIS.  || 

*5|s*  Sm.  410,  thirty-two  numbered  leaves.  In  the  copy  before  us, 
folios  31  and  32  are  printed  on  one  side  only,  and  these  blank 
pages  are  those  which  should  contain  the  passages  mentioned 
in  the  edition  of  1527  (supra  No.  142). 

(Boston  Athen.  Library.) 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  266. 
•J   NAVARRETE,  Coleccion,  page  cxxvi. 
I    Kloss  Catalogue,  page  125,  No.  1727. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  334. 

I  44»     COPPO  DA  ISOLA  (PETER) — Above  a  woodcut  represent 
ing  the  Sun,  Moon  and  Earth  : 

PORTOLANO. 

Colophon : 

Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Augufti/||no 
di  Bindoni.  1528.  Adi.  14.  de  Marzo.|| 

*Jjc*  Extremely  small  410  (z\  by  3^  inches),  signatures  A  to  F  in 
fours,  making  twenty-four  leaves,  the  verso  of  the  last  of  which 
is  blank,  whilst  the  recto  contains  a  printer's  monogram,  repre 
senting  a  cross  and  an  R,  with  the  words  :  Cum  gratia.  Pre 
ceding  the  title,  there  is  an  oval  map  of  the  world  filling 
two  pages,  upon  which  appear  Cuba,  lamaiqua,  Spagnuolla, 
modo  nouo,  &c.  On  the  reverse  of  the  title  another  map. 

(British  Museum.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  265 

The  passage  concerning  Columbus,  first  made  known    1^28. 
by  Morelli1,  is  on  the  verso  of  F.  3,  and  as  follows  :  - 


Chriftopholo  colubo  zeouefe  nel.  1492.  || 
trouo  nauegado  uerfo  ponente  molte  || 
ifole  &  cofe  noue.  ma  prima  fe  troue  le|| 
ifole  gorgone  hefperide  iunonia  la  pio  || 
uiofia  la  caurera  la  planaria  la  neuolia 
ca  ||  naria  alincotro  dela  barbaria  da  pol 
ar  ||  go  I  mar  fono  ifole  uetura  colubo 
bra  ||  zil  caurera  ouo  porto  fanto  medera 
&  ||  certe  ifole  dite  deferte  &  altre  dite 
falua  ||  dege.  Lanceloto  columbo.  dapoi 
oltra  ||  aflai  p  ponete  el  dito  chriftopholo 
tro  ||  uo  lifola  fpagnola  iamaique  cuba  le 
ifo  ||  le  de  icanibali.  la  terra  paria  ouer 
mon  ||  do  nouo  &  molte  altre  ifole.  la 
fpagno  ||  la  e  de  longeza  de  m.  800.  larga. 
m.  330.  ||  la  cuba  difta  de  la  fpagnola. 
mia.  70.  nel  ||  puar  che  fece  el  colubo 
in  uedar  fe  cu-  ||  ba  era  ifola  ouer.  terra 
ferma  el  uete  pu  ||  raffai  ifole.  Sc  pofe  nome 
nauigando  ala  ||  riuera  de  cuba  femp.  1300. 
m.  in  ql  noui  ||  gar  a  piu  de.  700.  ifole. 
hauedone  pafTa-  ||  te  piu  de.  3000.  dapoi 
el  colobo  li  fpa/ 1|  gnoli  nauigari  nauegado 

1  Letter  a  rarissima,  p.  63. 

34 


266  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1528.  oltra    el    cano  ||  bona   fperaza    perueueno 

==  neluidia  a  co- 1|  locut  &  andorono  piu  oltra 

fine  nele  ||  extreme  parte  de  lindia.  || 

Direct  references:  f  MORELLI,  Opercttc,  Vol.  i,  page  309. 
•<  Bibliotheca  Grcniii/Iiana,  — . 
(  Notes  on  Columbus,  page  5  6. 

1 4*  5*     BORDONE  (BENEDICT) — Within  a  wide,  ornamented  border : 

LIBRO  DI  BENE-||DETTO  BORDONE  || 
Nel  qual  fi  ragiona  de  tutte  1'Ifole  del 
mon- 1|  do  con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  mod- 
erni,  ||  hiftorie,  fauole,  &  modi  del  loro  ui  || 
uere,  &  in  qual  parte  del  ma||re  ftanno, 
&  in  qual  pa||rallelo  &  clima||giacciono.||* 
4fe  ||  CON  IL  BREVE  DI  PAPA  ||  Leone.  Et  gra 
tia  &  priuilegio  della||Illuftriffima  Signoria 
com' ||  in  quelli  appare.|||^|  M.D.XXVIII. 

Colophon  : 

€  ImprefTe  in  Venegia  per  Nicolo  d' Arif- 
totile,  detto  Zoppino,  nel  mefe  di  Giu||gno, 
del.  M.D.XXVIII.  con  priuilegio  di  Leone 
papa,  8c  del  Senato  d:||quefta  citta',  che 
niuno  per  anni  diece  poffa  quefte  ifole 
imprimere,  o||imprefie  uendere,  ne  loro 
luoghi  fotto  pofti,  fotto  le  pene  che  in  || 
efli  priuilegii  fi  contengono,  fe  no  coloro, 

*  Anglice:  The  book  of  Benedict  Bor-  modern  names,  histories,  fables  and  mode 
done,  which  treats  of  all  the  islands  of  the  of  life,  in  what  part  of  the  Ocean  they  are 
world,  together  with  their  ancient  and  situated,  what  parallel  and  climate. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  267 

a   quali   dal   com  ||  pofitor  loro   efpreffa  ||    1528. 
mete  fara'  ordinato  che  le  flam  ||  pino  ouer 
uendano. 


*#*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  (text  begins  on  the  verso),  +  eight  unnum 
bered  leaves,  containing  three  double  maps  -f-  seventy-three 
numbered  leaves.  The  map  before  the  first  folio  represents 
a  hemisphere,  in  which  on  the  N.  W.  portion  we  read  terra 
del  labor  atore.  Just  above  the  line  of  the  equator  are  the 
words  ponete  modo  nouo,  and  beneath  the  equatorial  line  there 
is  a  rude  tracing  of  a  continent  extending  into  the  Atlantic, 
and  as  far  as  the  tropic  of  Capricorn.  On  the  verso  of  fol. 
vi  there  is  a  small  map,  where  on  the  N.  E.  part  we  have 
mountains  and  pictures  of  houses,  and  beneath  Terra  de  lauo- 
ratore.  S.  E.  we  have  three  islands,  asmaide,  brasil  (on  the 
same  parallel  —  brasil  being  most  easterly),  opposite  the  third 
island,  beneath  these  two,  is  written  astores.  S.  W.  occur  in 
the  same  type  the  words  :  stretto\\pte  modo  nouo\\.  On  the 
recto  of  fol.  x  is  the  representation  of  a  large  city,  under 
which  is  printed  :  "La  gran  citta  di  Temistitan,"  and  the  text 
underneath  begins  :  "  Terra  di  sancto  Croce  ouer  mondo  nouo, 
fu  la  prima  di  tutte  queste  isole,  che  trouata  fusse,  &c."  On 
the  verso  of  fol.  xi  is  a  small  map,  showing  on  the  N.  W. 
iamaique,  on  the  N.  E.  (opposite  spagnola),  on  the  medium  line 
on  the  W.,  cbancbite,  on  the  centre  of  this  line,  curtana,  on 
the  E.,  mariatambal.  In  the  extreme  S.  E.  of  the  map  is 
printed  paria.  On  the  verso  of  fol.  xn  is  an  island  marked 
spagnola,  and  N.  E.  is  the  representation  of  a  city,  under  which 
is  printed  Isabella.  On  the  recto  of  folio  xm,  is  the  map  of 
another  island,  with  a  lofty  mountain  in  the  N.,  under  which 
is  written  Jamaiqua.  On  the  verso  of  the  same  fol.  we  have 
another  island,  subscribed  within  the  interior  of  the  island, 
cuba.  What  ought  to  have  been  numbered  xiv  is  numbered 
xvin.  On  this  map  we  have  laid  down  on  the  N.  W., 
«!>.  Maria  antica,  and  beneath  santa  -J-.  Due  N.,  5.  Maria 
rotonda.  N.  E.,  an  island  moferato.  On  the  equatorial  parallel, 
on  the  W.,  martino  ;  on  the  meridian  an  island,  bugbima  ; 
and  S.  E.,  the  island  dommica.  Due  S.  is  laid  down  an  island 
without  a  name.  On  the  verso  of  xv;n  (/.  e.  of  the  fol.  which 
should  have  been  numbered  xiv)  are  two  maps,  the  one  at 
the  top  of  the  page  shows  an  island  designated  guadalupe  ; 
underneath  other  islands  are  laid  down,  among  others  part  of 
one  marked  dominica.  The  bottom  map  is  marked  matinina. 
The  account  of  these  various  islands  finishes  on  the  recto  of 
fol.  xv.  All  these  maps  are  on  the  same  scale,  or  rather  the 
same  size,  viz.  :  $$  by  3  inches. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


268  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1C 28.  Benedetto  Bordone  was  born  at  Padua1,  but  lived  at 
-  Venice*,  where  he  cultivated  Astrology,  Geography, 
Greek  literature  and  miniature  painting  as  a  profession. 
FontaniniJ  and  Tiraboschi4  assert  that  he  was  the  father 
of  the  vain-glorious  Julius-Caesar  Scaliger.  Zeno,  on  the 
other  hand,  in  a  lengthy  but  interesting  note1,  denies 
the  assertion.  As  to  Scaliger,  it  is  well  known  that  he 
claimed  to  be  a  descendant  of  the  princely  house  of  della 
Scala.  The  date  of  Bordone's  death  is  unknown. 

Concerning  the  work  before  us,  which  is  a  description 
of  all  the  islands  then  known,  with  a  sketch  of  the  man 
ners  and  history  of  their  inhabitants,  Lelewell  says5 : 

"  Get  ouvrage  etait  acheve  en  1521  :  '  lo  uescouo  di  Racoscia  scrive 
a  Leone  summo  pontifice  hauer  veduto  (fol.  LXXIII — edit,  of  1534).' 
Le  pape  Leon  X,  privilegiant  le  5  Juin  1521  1'editeur,  mourut  le 
ier  decembre  de  meme  annee.  Bordone  en  1526,  s'addressait  au  senat 
de  Venice  pour  preserver  son  ouvrage  de  la  contrefa^on.  Bordone 

mourut  en  1531   [?] On  y  compte  105  figures  insulaires 

y  compris  les  plans  de  Venise   et  de   Temistetan enfin, 

Funiversale,  ou  la  mappemonde  de  Ptolemee,  avec  tous  les  comple 
ments  de  1'anne  1521,  complements  qu'on  voit  dans  la  carte  portu- 
gaise  de  1501,  dans  celle  de  Sylvano  1511  \jupra,  No.  68],  sur  le 
globe  de  Schdner,  1520  ....  La  perturbation  d'idees  geographiques 
de  cette  epoque  se  decele  d'une  maniere  singuliere  dans  1'isolario  de 
B.  Bordone  1521,  1534.  On  y  voit  une  mappemonde,  calquee  sur 
la  carte  portugaise,  seulement  Bordone  ou  son  modele  y  introduisit 
la  longueur  ptolemeenne  de  la  mediterranee." 

Lenglet  Du  Fresnoy6  and  M.  Renouard7  do  not  seem 
to  have  appreciated  Bordone's  Isolario. 

Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vni,  page  509. 
HAYM,  Bibliotcca  Italiana,  Vol.  IT,  page  103. 
CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.  v,  page  92,  n. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  ma. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  495. 
Bibliotheca  Broioniana,  page  15,  No.  48. 


1  ZENO,  in  FONTANINI,  Bibliotcca  dcW  *  Geogr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  n,  pp.  114 
eloy.  Ital.,  p.  268,  note.  and  162. 

2  MAZZUCHELLI,  Gli  scrittori  &  Italia, — .  *  Methode  pour   etudler    la    Geographic, 

3  lie  cit.,  p.  267.  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  p.  419. 

4  Storia  d.  Lett.  Ital.,  Vol.  VII,  p.  798.  T  Annalts  des  Aide,  Vol.  I,  p.  142. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  269 

I4-6.     MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER— "  Senfuyt    le    HOU- 

ueau  monde  et  nauigations,  faides  par  Emeric  de  Vef- 
puce,  Florentin,  des  pays  et  illes  nouuellement  trouuez 
auparauant  a  nous  incongneuz  :  tant  en  lEthiope  que 
Arrabie  Calichut  et  aultres  plufieurs  regions  eftranges, 
translate  de  ytalien  en  langue  francoyfe,  par  Mathurin 
du  Redouer,  licencie  es  loix.  On  les  'vend  a  Paris  en  la 
rue  Neufue  Noftre  Dame,  a  lenjeigne  Sainft  Jehan  Baptifte, 
par  Denis  lanot  (fans  date],  pet.  in-4,  goth." 

(NODIER1.) 

*#*  Four  preliminary  leaves  -j-  Ixxxiij  numbered  leaves,  accord 
ing  to  Brunei". 

Denys    Janot    printed    at    Paris    between    the    years 
1529  and  I5453. 


Direct  references:    f1  Catalogue  for   1844,  page   177,  No.    1107,  and  Description  rai- 

sonnee,  page  448,  No.  1107. 
Manuel,  Vol.  v,  col.  1 1 60. 
Livres  Curieux,  page  26,  No.  12,1. 
Bulletin  du  Bibliophile,  for  1840,  page  342,  No.  370. 


I/L7.      LORITZ  OR  GLARE  ANUS— Within  a  wide  border: 

HENRICI||GLAREANI  POETAE  LAV- ||  REATI 
DE  GEOGRA- ||  PHIA  LIBER  VNVS,  ||  AB  IPSO  AV- 
TORE  ||  RECOGNITVS.  ||  APVD  FRIBVRGVM  BRIS- 
GAVDIAE.  || 


8  Marques    Typographiqucs,   p.    14,  No.  logue  (Part    II,   Vol    n,   p.    425),  and  in 

26.     (We  inserted   the   above   under  the  PANZER  (Annales,  Vol.   vm,  p.    68,   No. 

date  of  1529  oh  this  authority ;  but  since,  1214)    the  imprint  of  Denys  Janot  on  a 

we  have  found  in  the  La  Valliere  Cata-  work  printed  in  1520. 


270  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1529.          Colophon: 


APVD    FRIBVRGVM     BISGOICVM  ||  ANNO.     M.  D. 
'XXX.  ||  EXCVDEBAT     IOANNES    FA-  ||  BER    EMMEVS 
IVLIACENSIS.  || 

*„,*  410,    thirty-five    numbered   leaves  -j-  one    blank   leaf  with    a 
woodcut  on  the  verso. 

(Private  Library,  Paris.) 

Direct  references :  (  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  464. 
\  Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1 246. 

14.8.  APIANUS-G.  FRISIUS-"  Cofmographicus  Liber 
Petri  Apiani  Mathematici,  ftudiofe  correctus,  ac  ab 
erroribus  vindicatus  per  Gemmam  Phryjium.  Veneunt 
Antuerpiae  in  aedibus  Rolandi  Eollaert.  Et  a  la  fin. 
Excufum  Antuerpiae  impenfis  Rolandi  Bollaert,  Typis 
Joannis  Graphei,  Anno  a  Chrifto  nato  1529.  menfe 
Febr.,  in  4to.  Feuilles  56." 

(CLEMENT1.) 

We  can  find  no  edition  of  Apianus  of  an  earlier  date 
with  the  valuable  additions  of  Gemma  Frisius.  Tro- 
mel  erroneously  considers2  the  edition  of  1539  as  the 
first  given  by  the  latter. 

"  GEMMA  FRISIUS  s'appelloit  REINERUS  [Regnier].  II  naquit  a 
Docum  [in  1508"]  d'une  famille  honnete.  Ce  fut  un  Medecin  pro- 
fond  en  la  theorie  de  son  art,  &  heureux  en  la  pratique.  Mais  il 
excella  surtout  dans  les  Mathematiques.  II  fut  extremement  aime 
&  estime  par  1'Empereur  Charles-Quint,  &  memes  suivant  1'avis  de  ce 
Prince,  qui  etait  s^avant  en  Astronomic  &  en  Geometric  il  corrigea 
une  faute  qu'il  avait  faite  en  sa  Mappemonde,  laquelle  il  dedia  ensuite 
a  cet  Empereur.  II  mourut  a  Louvain  [in  1558*  or  in  1555']  de  la 


1  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.  I,  p.  405,          *  FOPPENS,  Bibliotheca  Belgica,  Vol.  I, 
ote.  p.  331. 

*  Bibliatheijue  Americaine,  p.  6,  No.  n.          *  FREHERUS,  TAeatrum,  p.  1139. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  271 

peste  [or  of  a  stone  in  the  bladder'],  suivant  Melchior  Adam,  Suffride     I  C2Q< 
Petri,  &  Hierome  Ghilini."  J     ~ 

(TEISSIER7.) 

To  which  we  may  add  with  Freherus4  that  his  "  Sta- 
tura  fuit  parva,  membris  gracilibus  &  facie  pallida." 
As  to  his  annotations  to  Apianus'  Cosmographia,  Lele- 
well5  says  that  they  consist  in  having : 

"  introduit  les  notions  geographiques  et  une  table  abondante  de 
longitudes  et  latitudes  geographiques  de  Ptolemee,  pour  servir  a  dresser 
les  cartes,  dont  il  fit  en  1540  lui-meme  1'experience  a  Louvain8." 

Gemma  Frisius  was  the  pupil  of  Apianus,  and  teacher 
of  the  celebrated  cosmographer  Juan  de  Rojas. 


149.     APIANUS  (PETER}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

£*  COSMO-||GRAPHIAE  INTRODVCTIO  I  CVM|| 
quibufdam  Geometries  ac  Aftronomite  prin-  \\  cipijs  ad  eum  rem  necef- 
farijs.  || 

A  large  armillary  sphere,  below  which  : 

EXCVSVM    INGOLDSTADII.  ||  M.D.XXIX.  || 

Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  last  printed  leaf ; 

Ingoljtadij,  Anno  M.D.XXXI. 

*x*  izmo,  title  one  leaf-f-  thirty-one  leaves,  numbered  in  Arabic 
numerals  from  1-16,  after  which  the  enumeration  ceases. 
The  whole  is  printed  in  italics  with  contractions,  and  contains 
several  geographical  diagrams;  with  a  blank  leaf. 

(British  Museum.) 

8  LELEWELL,     G'eogr.    du    Moytn-Agc,         7  Les  E/oges  dcs  Hommes  Sea-vans,  Vol.  i. 

Vol.  n,  p.  176.     "Mort  le  25  Mai  1555,  p.  96. 

avant  la  publication  de  son  livre  \Dt  Astro-          8  "  CAarta,  sive  Mafpa  mundi  (ut  vulgus 

labio]." — D'AVEZAC,  Projections  Geogr.  p.  vocat)  id  est  Orbis  todus  Descriptio,  Carolo 

•jo,  note.  V.    dicata.      Lovanii,    1540."      FOPPI;.NS, 

*  DE  THOU,  Hist,  mei  tcmporis,  lib.  XYI.  loc.  cit.,  p.  331. 


272  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C2Q.         On  the  verso  of  leaf  c  6  reference  is  made  to  America  in  these  words  : 

—a  "  Non  solum  aut  pr<edict<e  tres  partes  ||  nuc  sunt  latius  lustrate,  ueriim 
£ff  alia  quarta  pars  ab  ||  (continued  on  recto  of  leaf  23)  America 
Vesputio  saga  c is  ingenii  uiro,  inueta  est.  Qua  \\  ab  ipso  America  eius 
inuentore  Amerigen  quasi  Ame-  ||  rid  terram  Jiue  America  appellari 
uolunt"  &c. 

M.  D'Avezac's  copy  bears  a  manuscript  marginal 
note,  dated  "  1532  V  Nonas  Octobris"  viz.: 

"  En  paucis  terra  describit  Apiarfl  omne 
Multis  qua  Magnus  vincere  no  pa  [tuit]." 

The  work  before  us  is  evidently  an  abridgment  of 
the  larger  Cosmographia  of  Apianus  [No.  127],  as  entire 
passages  in  chapters  xxv-xxvm,  are  literally  copied  from 
the  latter.  (See  supra,  page  239.) 


ICO.     IDEM  OP  US—  The  only  differences  are  in  the  following 
colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf: 

Excufum  logolftadij  {sic}  ||  An.  M.D. XXXIII.  |  Mease  lanuario. 
And  in  the  pagination,  which  is  as  follows  :  Title  one  leaf  +  leaves 
numbered  from  2-16  +  nve  unnumb.  11.  marked  c,  cij,  c  3,  ^4,  c  5, 
-|-  three  11.  unnumbered  and  without  signatures  -|-  five  unnumb.  11. 
marked  d,  dz,  d  3,  ^4,  d  5,  -f-  three  unnumb.  11  without  sig. -f- five 
11.  marked  e,  e  z,  e  3,  e  4,  e  5  +  there  11.  without  sig.,  verso  of  the 
last  of  which  is  blank. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  128,  No.  22. 
-|  Kloss  Catalogue,  page  20,  No.  256. 
(  Bibliotheca  Barloiuiana,  page  I  3 . 

IC7O.  '5^«     FRIES  (L-)~ "  Underweifung    und    vfllegunge 

•  der  Cartha  Marina  oder  die  mercarten,  darin  man  fehen 

mag,  wa  einer  in  d'welt  fy  und  wa  ein  ytlich  land,  wafler 

und  ftet  ligen.      (Zu   Anfang :   Von  dem  niien  land  auch 

amarica  genant.)     Mit  3   Hzfchn.     Fol.  Strajburg,,   530. 

21    Bll."        (Butsch  Catalogue1.) 


1  Page  24,  No.  359;   BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  1399 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  273 

I^^.     CLEMENT  VII  &  CHARLES  V— First  line:  I  £J  TO, 

CAROLVS    Qutntus  fciutna  fauente  OTle^ ' 

tnentta  ^omanoru  Jmperator  temper  Euguftus  ac 
Cermanie .  ^ifpantaru  btriufq,  g>ictlte . 
iem .  Ungarie,  Balmatie,  OTroacie .  Jnfularu 
laru .  J^rtunatarucp .  ac  noui  (Drtte  Jntrtaru 

Ninety-first  line  : 

IBatum  Uononie  fufc  Enno  a  i^atiuitate  5m 
fEillefimoptngenteftmotrtgeftmo  .... 

%*  One  vellum  sheet,  containing  ninety-two  printed  lines  and  a 
few  words  in  manuscript. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  a  document  emanating  from  Charles 
V,  dated  Bologna,  March  2jd,  1530,  and  reciting  two 
Papal  Bulls  from  Clement  VIP.  The  first  of  these  is 
addressed  to  Charles  V,  as  sovereign  of  New  Spain,  and 
alludes  to  the  new  islands  discovered  under  his  auspices, 
in  addition  to  Hispaniola,  and  such  as  were  subdued 
and  Christianized  by  Ferdinand. 

Beinceps  quocp  omfilrtmus  [says  he],  te  quoaU  in 
ijumante  iregerte  [?]  Barbaras  nattones  atr  mfl 
omntu  aptfice  et  coiutore  teu  cognofcetrum  no  fclfl 
etiictts  atrmonttionttufqui .  fetr  et  armts  et  birttus 
(ft  npug  fuertt)  bt  earum  anime  celeftis  tegni  fiant 
parttcipes  copulfuru .  omntc^  ftuirio  cffectutu.* 

This  document  is  not  interesting  merely  from  the 
fact  that  it  gives  to  Charles  V  authority  to  furnish 
ecclesiastical  dignitaries,  thus  conceding  the  long-contro- 

1  We  failed  to  find  those  two  Bulls  in  nations  to  come  to  the  knowledge  of  God, 

the  Luxemb.  edition  of  CHERUBINI'S  Bui-  the  maker  and  founder  of  all  things,  not 

larium  Magnum  Romanum.  only  by  edicts  and  admortitions,  but  also  by 

*  dnglicc :  Whereupon  we  trust  that  force  and  arms,  if  needful,  in  order  that 

as  long  as  you  are  on  earth  you  will  com-  their  soul  may  partake  of  the  heavenly 

pel  and  with  all  zeal  cause  the  barbarous  kingdom. 

35 


274  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

verted  right  about  investitures,  at  least  as  regarded  the 
New  World,  but  also  from  the  circumstance  that  it 
boldly  enounces  the  doctrine  which  a  few  years  later 
became  the  subject-matter  of  those  bitter  controversies, 
now  personified  in  the  eyes  of  the  historian  by  Bartho 
lomew  de  Las  Casas  on  the  one  side,  and  Juan  Gines  de 
Sepulveda  on  the  other.  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that 
Sepulveda  lived  at  or  near  Rome  during  the  entire  pon 
tifical  life  of  Clement  VII  (1523-1534);  and  we  are 
inclined  to  believe  that  the  too-famous  Democrates  secun- 
dus,  seu  De  Justis  belli  causis  (a  MS.  copy  of  which  exists 
in  a  private  library,  Providence,  R.  I.)  quotes  as  an 
authority  this  Bull  of  the  ambitious  Julius  de  Medicis. 

I53*     ENCISO  (M.  DE)— Under  a  large  sphere,  held  by  a  band: 

5»  mmi  be 

trata  tre  totras  lag  partttras  r  prouinci  ||  as  trel 
muntro:  en  Special  trelas  tntrias.  ||r  trata  larga= 
mente  trel  arte  trel  marearlliuntamente  con  (a  ester  a 
en  romance:  || conel  regtmieto  trel  foi  g  *re!  norte: 
ago  ||  tanueuamente  ementrafoa  tre  algtinoslltiefecs 
tos  \  tenia  enla  tmprettio  paffatra.ll 

Signs  of  the  zodiac  on  the  verso. 
End  of  Colophon : 

.  .  .  jfue  impteffa  enla  nottliffi  ||  mar  mug  leal 
cittratr  tre  g>nulla  pot  Sua  crom- 1|  terger:  en  el 
ano  trela  encarnacion  tre  nue-||ftro  fefior  Jefu 
cjrifto  tre  mil  r  <puni-||*nto8 .  r .  xxx. 

*,,,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf-f-  fifty-seven  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  IX,  page  475. 
J  Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  II,  No.  2163. 
(  Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  911. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  275 

..     MARTYR    (PETER)— Within  a    border   representing    tht 
labors  of  Hercules  : 

DE    OR BE NO 

no  llrtri  lllartoris 


tari0 


8 

ptiuilegio  .imperial! 
(Eotnpluti  aputr 
eie  fl  IBsuia 


Within  the  border,  the  words  :  diOKoka  raAd,  Suftine,  &  abjline. 

Colophon  : 

EXCVSVM   COMPLVTI   IN   AEDIBVS  ||  Michaelis   de 
Eguia.     Anno  Virginei  ||  partus  M.D.XXX.  ||  Menfe  Decebri. 

*J|C*  Title  one  leaf  +  one  leaf  for  Preface  +  leaves  numbered  iij- 
cxij,  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  for  Vocabula  Barbara. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

First  complete  edition  of  the  eight  Decades.     It  is  in 


276  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

some  respects1  more  correct  than  HakluytV,  which  is 
usually  considered  the  best.  The  copy  before  us  contains 
at  the  end  a  map  in  woodcut:  l( tipu s  orbis  unluer sails 
....  ghedruct  fatwerpen  by  M.  peter  de  Wale  i  de 
guide  hant"  which  is  not  without  interest  when  we 
read  the  note  added  to  the  Heber  copy3,  and  referring 
to  "  the  curious  map  of  Apianus,  cut  in  wood  at  Ant 
werp,  1530."  See  supra,  page  122. 

Direct  references:  f  PINELO-BARCIA,  Vol.  n,  col.  579. 

MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  Ill,  Part  I,  page  273. 

TERNAUX,  No.  36. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  293. 

GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  130. 

Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  15,  No.  49. 


I55*  S^PIDO  (SULpicio)— "  Epitome  Hist.  &?  Cron. 
Mundi. 

"  Lyons  —  153°-" 

"In  un  certo  libretto  [the  above]  si  trova  sotto  1'anno  1492: 
*  Insulae  quaedam  in  Oceano,  antiquioribus  ignotae  hoc  aevo  veluti 
novum  Orbi  ab  Americo  Vesputio  primum  &  deinde  a  Christoforo 
Columbo  lustrantur.'" 

(BANDINI*.) 

156.  "GEMMA  PHRYSIVS  de  Principiis  Aftron- 
omiae  &  Cofmographiae ;  de  ufu  Globi ;  de  Orbis  divi- 
fione  ac  Infulis  :  JOAN  .  GRAPHEUS  typis  excudebat.  4to 
Antverp  1530. 

"  Menfe   Octobr.    V<eneunt   cum   Globis  Lovanii   apud 
Gregorium   Zaflenum,    &  Antverpise  apud  Gregorium 
Scuto  Bafilienfi" 

(MAITTAIRE8  ) 


1  Cf.  the  passage  on  verso  of  leaf  Ixxviij.  8  Bibliotheca   Heberiana,    Part   VI,    No. 

See  Bulletin  Societ'e  de  Geogr.,  for  September  215. 

and  October,  1858,  p.  271.  4  Vita  di  A.  Vespucci^  p.  LXXIII. 

a  Paris,  8vo,  1587.  *  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  u,  P.  n,  p.  737, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  277 

I57*     ^OMPONIUS  MELA— Within  an  ornamented  border:  I  C^O, 

£*   POMPONII  ||  MELAE     DE      ORBIS      SITV  = 

LIBRI  ||  tres,  accuratiffime  emedati  vna'  cum 
Commenta||rijs  loachimi  Vadiani  Heluetii 
caftigatiori- 1|  bus,  &  multis  in  locis  auc- 
toribus  facliis :  id  quod  cadidus  Ie6tor  obi 
ter,  &||in  tranfcurfu  facile  de- 1|  prehendet  | 

ADIECTA  funt  preeterea  loca  aliquot  ex  VADIANI  comentarijs _ 
fum-  ||  matim  repetita,  &  obiter  explicata :  in  quibus  egftimandis  cen- 
fendifqz  dottijfi-  ||  mo  uiro  loanni  CAMERTI  ordinis  Minorum  Theo- 
logo,  cum  loachimo  ||  VADIANO  non  admodum  conuenit.  ||  RVRSVM, 
Epiftola  Vadiani,  ab  eo  pene  adulefcente  ad  Rudolphum  Agri\  colam 
iuniorem  fcripta,  non  indigna  leclu,  nee  inutilis  ad  ea  capienda,  qux 
ali- 1|  ubi  in  Commentary  s  fuis  lib  are  magis,  quam  longius  exp  Heart 
uoluit.  || 

If  LVTETIAE    PARISIORVM, 

ANNO  M.D.XXX. 

Colophon  : 

LVTETIAE    PARISIORVM,      MENSE 

IVNIO    ANNO,    A    CHRISTO 
NATO    M.D.XXX. 

*;)c*  Folio;  title  one  leaf -f-  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves,  +  one 
hundred  and  ninety-six  +  one  unnumbered  leaf  for  a  title,  -f- 
twenty-seven  unnumbered  leaves,  +  one  leaf,  recto  of  which 
is  blank,  while  the  verso  contains  a  printer's  mark,  viz. :  a 
tree,  a  bird  flying,  and  the  motto  :  VNICVM  .  ARBVSTVM  NON 

ALIT  DVOS  ERITHACOS.       No  map. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  the  epistle  to  Agricola,  signature  Y. 

Dirtct  referencei :  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  n,  Part  11,  page  738. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vu,  page  103. 
PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr,,  Vol.  vin,  page  141. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  15. 


2y  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

FRIES  (LAURENT)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


mtb 


Wanna  odcr  bie 
mfr||cartei2>arin  matt  feljen 
mag  i  ma  einer  in  b'  tuclt  ft)  mud  urn  cin  t)t(irf)  ||  Innb 
umffcr  Hub  ft  ct  lia,f  sale  in  be  Inl  djliit  angfjogt  nil  in 
b'  djartc  $ufd)cn.  || 

Then  woodcut  representing  men  with  dogs'  heads,  dividing  human 
flesh. 

Colophon  : 


toon 

tmb  ||  tooflftibf  tiff   3ant  ?)dr,qf  ||  abfttt  ?)m.   gar  .  . 

jm .  m .  xxx.  ii 

*,,,*  Folio  ;    title  one  leaf  -{-  twenty-one  unnumbered   leaves,  no 
maps.     (See  notice  on  first  column  of  last  leaf.) 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  reference :  GRAESSE,  Vol.  II,  page  635. 


"  MARINEO  (Lucio) — Obra  Compuefta  de 
las  Cofas  Memorables  e  Claros  Varones  de  Efpana, 
Alcala,  1530.  Folio." 

(Bibliotheca  Hcberiana1.} 


1  Part  i,  No.  4680. 

*  We  find  in  BARCIA-PINELO  (col.  721) 
what  seems  to  us  an  eminently  apocryphal 
book,  at  least  under  the  date  of  1  5  30,  vix.  : 
"  F.  ANTONIO  DE  CEPEDA,  Dominico,  Arte 
de  las  Lenguas  de  Chiapa,  Loques,  Cel- 
dales,  i  Chinatlecas,  imp.  Mexico  .  1530." 


While  on  the  subject  of  American  Lin- 
guistics,  can  the  reader  inform  us  who  it 
that  "  Vvadingo,"  whom  BARCIA  quotes  so 
often  with  regard  to  the  Central  American 
languages  ?  See  Titulo  xvm,  Vol.  II,  p. 
719,  sy.  He  is  altogether  unknown  to 
EGUJARA  and  BERISTAIN. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  279 

I  60.    MARTYR  (PETER^—  Within  the  same  border  as  in  M.  154:       I 


OPVSEP 


ttolm     tin 


r 

nefte  ^rotonotarif 
^pllci  attf  a  cofi- 
lijs  mu  Jntrica 
rti:  nuc  jhnu  et 
natu  r  metrio 
cri  cuta  excu 
fum: 
qtre 

terftili  benuftate  moftroru  $$ 
tepo^  f)tftort^  loco  ette  potertt. 
Otopiutt  Enno  tint. 


prtutiegto 

Colophon  : 


Ijac 


men  Epiftolarum  Petri  Martyris  Mediola  ||  nenfis   citra   contro- 
uerfia   eruditiffimi  II  in  celeberrima  &  in    omni    literaru  ||  genere 

II  II    O 

maxime  florenti  Aca  ||  demia  Complutenfi  in||Aedibus  Michae|| 
lis  de  Eguia  ||  Anno  a  ||  Chrifto  ||  nato.  ||  M.D.XXX. 


Folio;  title  one  leaf  +  eleven  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves 
-}-  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  numbered  leaves.  (There 
is  some  mistake  in  the  pagination  after  fol.  193  or  198.) 
Text  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


280  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Our    readers    are    aware    that   Peter    Martyr   was    a 
courtier.      He  acknowledges   himself  that  he  took  ex- 

o 

treme  pleasure  in  the  society  of  the  great1,  and  was  on 
intimate  terms  with  the  most  influential  men  of  his  day 
and  country.  His  correspondence  with  these  has  been 
preserved,  and  covers  a  period  of  not  less  than  thirty- 
seven  years.  The  first  letter  bears  the  date  of  January 
i,  1488,  when  he  came  originally  to  Spain,  while  the 
last  is  dated  May,  1525,  the  year  preceding  his  death. 
These  816  or  813  letters  form  a  curious  medley  of 
accounts,  opinions  and  descriptions,  not  altogether 
free  from  twaddle,  but  which  initiate  us  into  the  secret 
workings  of  the  Spanish  government  at  the  beginning 
of  the  sixteenth  century,  and  the  inner  life  of  the 
principal  personages  of  the  time.  The  insanity  of 
Queen  Joanna2,  the  cupidity  of  the  Flemish  courtiers5, 
Luther's  Reformation4,  the  expulsion  of  the  Jews5,  the 
atrocious  deeds  of  the  Inquisition6,  the  conquest  of 
Granada7,  the  attempt  on  the  life  of  Ferdinand8,  the 
battle  of  Pavia9,  &c.,  are  all  described  with  zest  and  a 
certain  couleur  locale  which  is  not  without  charm.  But 
the  letters  which  interest  us  most  are  the  following : 
cxxx,  May,  1493,  to  Jo.  BORROMEO  ;  cxxxin,  Septem 
ber,  1493,  to  Count  TENDILLA  ;  cxxxiv,  same  date,  to 
ASCANIO  SFORZA;  cxxxv,  October,  1493,  to  the  Abp. 
of  Gallicia  (?)  ;  cxxxvin,  November,  1493,  to  SFORZA; 
CXL,  February,  1494,  to  the  Abp.  of  Granada;  CXLII, 
November,  1494,  to  Jo.  BORROMEO;  CXLVI  and  CLII, 
December  and  January,  1494,  to  POMPONIUS  L^ETIUS  ; 
CDXIV,  August,  1495,  to  BERNARDIN  CARAVAJAL  ; 
CLXVIII,  October,  1496,  to  the  same. 

These  are  among  the  epistles   to   which   Humboldt 
calls    the  attention10  of  the  reader  in    his    interesting 


1  "  Felicia    haec  (blandimenta    naturae)         '  Epist.  cccxxxm,  sq. 

deliciosi  predicant,  magnorum    me  viro-          7  Epist.  xcu. 

rum  sola  commercia  beant."  Epist.  xcv.            8  Epist.    cxxv,    cf.    ORTIZ'     Tratados, 

1  Epist.  cccxvi,  sq.  supra,  No.  10,  p.  32. 

*  Epist.  DCXIII,  sq.  "  Epist.  DCCCXIII. 

4  Epist.  DCLXXXIX,  sq.  10  Examen  Critique,  Vol.   n,  Appendix, 

6  Epist.  v,  vi,  sq.  PP- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  281 

account  of  Peter  Martyr's  Of  us  Epistolarum,  in  these 
words : 

"Je  terminerai  cette  note  en  citant  les  lettres  de  1493  qui  ont  rap 
port  a  Christophe  Colomb  (Architbalasso,  Novi  Orbis  repertort)  : 
elles  se  trouvent  pag.  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77,  81,  84,  85,  88,  89,  90, 
92,  93,  96,  101,  102,  116,  de  1'edition  d'Amsterdam11,  1670.  Com- 
parez  dans  1'edition  d'Alcala  de  Henares,  1530  [present  No.  159], 
pag.  71,  81,  84,  89,  92,  95,  116,  etc.") 

Meusel  also  mentions  :  "  Quae  ad  res  Americanas 
fpectant,  maxime  funt  fequentes  :  [Nos.]  130,  133,  142, 
144,  146,  152,  156,  158,  164,  168,  202,  532,  545,  549, 
551,  560,  562."  We  refer  in  the  body  of  this  work  to 
the  other  epistles  which  refer  to  Mexico,  Grijalva,  Cor 
tes,  &c.  These  letters  were  carelessly  written,  and  the 
testimony  of  Juan  de  Vergara11,  who  asserts  having  seen 
Peter  Martyr  dispatch  a  couple  of  epistles  while  his 
servants  were  laying  the  table  for  dinner,  is  sufficient  to 
account  for  the  inaccuracies  and  contradictions  which 
they  contain.  Hallam  says  of  these  epistles  : 

"  They  are  full  of  interesting  facts,  and  would  be  still  more  valuable 
than  they  are  could  we  put  our  trust  in  their  genuineness  as  strictly 
contemporary  documents.  La  Monnoye  (if  I  remember  right13, 
certainly  some  one)  long  since  charged  the  author  with  imposture,  on 
the  ground  that  the  letters,  into  which  he  wove  the  history  of  his 
times,  are  so  full  of  anachronisms  as  to  render  it  evident  that  they 
were  fabricated  afterwards."1' 

11  OPUS||EPISTOLARUM||PErfl/  LEONARD,    Typographum     Regium,  ||  da 

MARTTR1S  ||  ANGLERII   MEDIO-  loc  LXX. 

L4NENSIS,  ||  Protonotarii     Apostolici,  *#*  Folio,  813  letters. 

Prioris  Archiepiscopatus   Granatensis,    at-  12  See  his  letter  to  F.  de  Ocampo  apud 

que   a  ||  Consiliis  Rerum   Indicarum  His-  QUINTANILLA  Y   MENDOZA,  Archetype  de 

panicis,   tanta    cura    excusum,    ut  ||  praeter  Virtudes ;   Palermo,  1653,  quoted  by  AN- 

styli  venustatem  quoque  fungi  possit  vice  TONIO,  Bibl.  Hispan.  Nova,  Vol.  II,  p.  372, 

Luminis  ||  Historiae  superiorum  temporum.||  and    PRESCOTT,    Ferdinand   and    Isabel/a, 

Cut   acccsserunt  \\  E PISTOLS  ||  FERDI-  Vol.  II,  p.  76,  note. 

NANDI  da   PULGAR  \\  Coaetanei  Lat-  13  Is  it  not  VAS^EUS  in  Chronico  Hispanta, 

inae   pariter  atque    Hispanicae    cum    Trac-  cap.  IV,  as  quoted  by  Vossius,  De  Histor. 

tatu  Hispanico   de  ||  Viris   Castellae  Illus-  Latin.,  Lib.  in,  p.  671  ? 

tribus.  14  Literature  of  Europe,  Vol.  I,  cap.  IV, 

EDITIO  POSTREMA.  §   8 1.     HALLAM   cites 'in  support  of  his 

fl  AMSTELODAMI,  Typis  ELZEVIRIANIS.  ||  assertion  the  following  anachronisms : 

Veneunt  ||  PARISIIS,  ||  Apud  FREDERICUM  "  in  the  year  1489  he  writes  to  a  friend »  In 

36 


282 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 


^  3  O 


Mr.  Prescott  cites  in  favor  of  Peter  Martyr's  veracity, 
-  Galindez  de  Carvajal15,  Alvaro  Gomez15  and  Juan  de 
Vergara,  all  of  whom  were  his  contemporaries.  Mr. 
Helps  adds  the  name  of  Las  Casas17.  Antonio18, 
Flechier19,  Niceron20,  speak  highly  of  our  author,  while 
Munoz",  although  soliciting  the  indulgence  of  the  pub 
lic  for  "el  candor  con  que  [Martyr]  lo  confiesa  todo, 
por  su  niugun  afan  en  publicar  sus  borrones,"  says  that 
"  debe  procederse  con  gran  cautela." 

Antonio  states18  that  when  F.  Barberini  was  his  brother 
Urbain  VIII's  nuncio  to  Spain  (1630),  the  present 
edition  of  Peter  Martyr's  epistles  had  already  became 
so  rare,  that  he  was  obliged  to  pay  a  very  high  price  for 
a  manuscript  copy,  in  lieu  of  a  printed  original.  Niceron 
adds20  that  "  cette  premiere  edition  etant  extremement 
rare,  M.  le  premier  President  de  Lamoignon  donna 
I'exemplaire  qu'il  avait  dans  sa  Bibliotheque,  a  Charles 
Patin,  qui  en  fit  faire  une  nouvelle  en  Hollande"  plus 
belle  &  plus  correcte."  Prescott  points  out  some  errors 
in  this  reprint. 


peculiarem  te  nostrae  tempestatis  morbum,  qui  ap- 
pellatione  Hispana  Bubarum  dicitur,  ab  Italis  mor- 
bus  Gallicus,  medicorum  Elephantiam  alii,  alii 
aliter  appellant,  incidisse  prascipitem,  libero  ad  me 
scribis  pede.  Efist.  68.  Now  if  we  should  even 
believe  that  this  disease  was  known  some  years 
before  the  discovery  of  America  and  the  siege  of 
Naples  [it  always  was  known],  is  it  probable  that 
it  could  have  obtained  the  name  of  morbus  Gallicus 
before  the  latter  aera?  In  February,  I jn,  he  com 
municates  the  absolution  of  the  Venetians  by  Julius 
II,  whieh  took  place  in  February,  lyio.  Efist. 
45:1.  In  a  letter  dated  at  Brussels,  31  Aug.,  1510 
(Efist.  689),  he  mentions  the  burning  of  the  canon 
law  at  Wittenberg  by  Luther,  which  is  well  known 
to  have  happened  in  the  ensuing  year." 

We  should  add,  after  HUMBOLDT,  that 
in  an  Epistle  dated  December  2,9,  1493, 
Peter  Martyr  refers  to  events  which  took 
place  at  Hispaniola,  the  news  of  which 
were  first  brought  to  Spain,  March  1 6, 
1494  In  Efist.  1 68,  dated  October,  1496, 
we  find  an  account  of  events  which  hap 
pened  in  1498.  The  Epistles  181,  185, 
dated  Sept.  and  Nov.  1497,  mention  the 
arrival  of  Vasco  da  Gama  at  Calichut  by 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  although  the  latter 


was  not  doubled  until  November  20,  1497. 
Mr.  PRESCOTT  says  in  reply  that  "  after  all 
the  errors,  such  as  they  ar  ,  in  Peter  Mar 
tyr's  Epistles,  may  probably  chiefly  be 
charged  on  the  publisher."  Loc.  cit.,  p. 
77,  note.  Mufioz  is  more  e-mphatic  :  Estoy 
persuadido  a  que  estos  errores  son  del  co- 
lector  de  los  papeles,  sueltos  do  Martir." 
Histor.  del  Nue-vo  Mundo,  p.  XIV. 

15  Anales,  MS.,  pro/ago. 

18  De  Rebus  Gestis  \_Francisci  Ximinii]  ; 
Alcala,  fol.,  1569. 

17  "  De  los  cuales  cerca  destas  primeras 
cosas  a  ninguno  se  debe  dar  mas  fee  que  a 
Pedro  Martir  [referring,  however,  only  to 
the  Dec  des],  ap.  HELPS,  The  Spanish  con 
quest  in  America,  Vol.  I,  p.  107. 

18  Bibl.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  II,  p.  373. 

19  Histoire  du  Cardinal  Ximencs,  Vol.  I, 
p.   7,  cited    by  CHAUFFEPIE,   Dictionnairc, 
Vol.  Ill,  p.  49,  art.  Martyr. 

ao  Mcmoircs,  Vol.  XXXIII,  p.  ZIO. 
81  Histor.  del  Nue-vo-Mundo,  p.  XIII. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  283 

Direct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  n,  Part  II,  page  743.  I  C*  'JO* 

-|    PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  445.  •* 

I   MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Pt.  I,  page  2,71,  nj. 
ARGELATUS  &  SAXIUS,  Biblioth.  Script.  Medial.  ,  col.  1941. 
SCHLOZER,  Briefivechsel  m.  hiftor.  Inhalts,  Pt.  II,  page  207,  tq. 
Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  2414,  and  Part  VII,  No.  3944. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  15,  No.  50. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  294. 
EBERT,  No.  13319. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  I,  page  130. 

1  6  1.    MAFFEI  OF  VOLTERRA-"  Commentariorum  ur- 
banorum  Libri  XXXVIII.     Bafil.  1530.  f." 


l62.     RESENDE  (A.  A.  DE)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

EPITOME    RERVM   GESTARVM  ||    1531 

in  India  a  Lufitanis,  anno  fuperiori,  iuxta™5"8 
exem-|  plum  epiftolae,  quam  Nonius  Cug- 
na,  dux  Indiae||  max.  defignatus,  ad  regem 
mifit,  ex  vrbe  Ca-  ||  nanorio,  IIII.  Idus 
Odlobris.  Anno.  ||  M.D.XXX.  ||  Audlore  An- 
gelo  Andrea  Refendio  Lufitano.  || 

Louanii  apud  Seruatium  ZafTenum,  An 
no  ||  M.D.XXXI.  Menfe  lulio.  Ad  fi-  ||  gnu 
Regni  coelorum.  || 

*.£*  410,  title  one  leaf  +  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

1  Biblioth.  Histor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  page  Sixti  IF,  Innocentii   fill,  Alexander   VI 

281;  and  FABRICIUS,  Bibl.  Lat.  Med.  Vol.  &   Pit  III;    Venet,    1518,   fol.),    which 

vi,  page  142,  who  also  mentions:  "Com-  may    contain    additional    details   concern- 

mentarii  rerum   urbanarum,  lib.    xxxvill,  ing    the   first    voyage    of  Columbus    and 

cum    Oeconomico    Xenophontis.       Paris,  the    Embassies  of  Obedience   intrusted    to 

apud  Jod.  —  Badium  1526,"  and  a  life  of  Bernardin    de   Carvajal   and   Francisco   de 

Alexander  VI  by  the  same  author  (Vita  Almeida. 


284  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

We  found  this  work  in  a  library  devoted  exclusively 
to  America,  but,  as  far  as  we  can  recollect,  failed  to  dis 
cover  anything  relating  to  the  subject  before  us.  The 
title,  as  well  as  Meusel's  notice1,  indicates  that  the  work 
belongs  to  the  Bibliotheca  Asiatica.  There  were  three 
Portuguese  Resendes,  who  were  contemporaries,  viz.  : 
Andrew  Falcam  de  Resende,  a  Portuguese  poet,  who 
died  in  1598;  Garcia  de  Resende,  the  historian  and 
poet,  who  died  in  1554,  and  whose  Chronica  we  notice, 
infra,  after  quoting  it  in  reference  to  the  disposition 
evinced  by  the  noblemen  of  the  court  of  John  II  to 
murder  Columbus  when  he  landed  at  Rastello  (supra, 
page  6)  ;  and  the  present  Angelo  Andrea  de  Resende, 
born  in  1498,  a  prolific  writer  and  a  great  antiquarian, 
who  died,  universally  respected,  in  1573.  The  reader 
might  consult  with  advantage  the  works  of  I.  da  Sylva1, 
Barbosa  y  Machado,  and  de  Figaniere3,  to  ascertain 
whether  among  the  numerous  plaquettes  published  by 
A.  A.  de  Resende,  some,  now  extremely  rare,  do  not 
refer  to  America  or  at  least  to  Brazil. 

Direct  references:  (  Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  page  601. 

(  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  1 6,  No.  51. 


I532'          I^)3*    MARINEO  (L.)— "  Opus    de    Rebus     Hifpaniae 
memorabilibus,  Compluti,  Mich,  de  Eguia,  1532,  folio." 

(Bibliotheca  Heberiana*.) 

164..    BORDONE  (B.)—"  Ifolario,    Vinegia,    Zoppino, 

1532,    folio."          (GRAESSE6.) 


1  Bibliotheca  Historica,   Vol.  v,  Pt.  i,  nalcs,  Vol.  ix,  p.  44.2 ;  FREYTAG,  Analccta, 
P-  2,36.  p.  57.      Under  the  date    of  1539,  we  de- 

2  Diccionario  bibliogr.  portugutx  estudos  scribe,  in  extenso,  an  original  copy  of  this 
aff/icavcis  a  Portugal  e  do  Brasil.  work. 

3  Bibliografia     Historica     Portugucza  ;          6  Vol.    i,  p.    495.     The    Tresor  is  the 
Lisbon,  8vo,  1850.  only  work  we  could  find  which  mentions 

4  Part  ii,  No.  3618,  and  PANZER,  An-  this  edition. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

l6c.     PTOLEMY—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


graphics  i|  Cum  Eandaui  anno||tationibus 
eggre  ||  gie  illuftratae.  || 

The  above  title,  in  the  copy  before  us,  is  only  a  fac-simile,  but 
it  seems  to  have  been  copied  from  the  original. 

Recto  of  the  next  page,  printed  : 

ARGENTORATI  ||  apud   Petrum  Opilionem. 
M.D.XXXII. 


*Jlc*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  -f  ex  numbered  leaves,  followed  by 
eight  maps,  covering  each  two  leaves,  -f-  two  unnumbered 
leaves.  The  last  map  bears  no  title ;  but,  west  of  Iceland, 
there  is  represented  a  large  continent  "Inde  continuatur  littori 
terrae  Baccallaos,  356-60,"  which  contains  the  following 
inscriptions :  TERRA  BACALLAOS,  VLTERIORA  INCOGNITA  GRON- 

LANDIA,    HVETSARGH    PROMONT. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of  the   ninety-second   leaf  for  interesting 
matter  touching  Cabot  and  Cuba. 

Direct  reference:  Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  v,  No.  5388  (?) 


1 6 6.    LORITZ  OR  GLAREANU&—  "  de   Geographia  liber. 
Franc.  1532  fol.  ab  ipfo  auctore  tertio  recognitus." 

(Athena  Rauric*1.) 

Evidently  an  error,  as  we  give  (Nos.  142,  143,  147) 
editions  dated  1527,  1528  and  1530. 


1  Si"ve  Catalogus  Professorum  Academ,  Basilicnsis,  p.  251. 


286  Bibtiotheca  Americana. 

167.     P.  MARTYR  &  F.  CORTES— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

t+  EXTRAIT  OV  RECVEIL   DES  || 

Ifies  nouuellemet  trouuees  en  la  grand  mer 
Oce- 1|  ane  ou  temps  du  roy  Defpaigne  Fernad 
&  E/i%a  ||  beth  fa  femme,  fai8t  premier ement 
en  latin  par  ||  Pierre  Martyr  de  Mi  I  I  an,  ^f 
depuis  tranflate  en  ||  languaige  francoys.  || 
Item  trois  Narrations :  dont  la  premiere  eft 
de\\  Cuba,  &  commence  ou  fueillet  i%2.\\La 
feconde,  qui  eft  de  la  mer  Oceane,  commence  || 
ou  fueillet  155.  \\JLa  tierce,  qui  eft  de  la 
prinfe  de  Tenuflitan,  com  ||  mence  ou  fueillet 


On  les  vend  a  Paris  rue  fainff  lehan 
de  Beau-  ||  uais,  chez  Simon  de  Colines  au 
foleil  dor.  || 


Colophon  : 

Imprime  a  Paris  par  Simon  de  Colines 
libraire  iure  de  ||  luniuerfite  de  Paris,  Lan 
de  grace  Mil  cinq  ces  trente-deux,  le  dou- 
xiefme  iour  de  Ianuier.\\ 

*^.*  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves  +  two  hundred 
and  seven  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  is  evidently  a  translation  into  French 
of  our  No.  126.  The  first  part,  which  is  a  version 
of  Peter  Martyr's  abridgment  of  the  fourth  Decade, 
made  for  Clement  VII  (supra,  page  187,  No.  no),  is 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  287 

dedicated  to  the  Duke  d'Angouleme.  On  leaf  132 
there  is  a  new  dedication  to  "  Marguerite  de  Flandres 
tante  de  Lempereur;"  and  from  leaf  155  to  the  end  we 
find  the  Epitome  de  les  Seconde  et  Tierce  Narrationes  de 
la  mar  Oceane  de  Ferdinant  Cortese^  translatee  de  latin  en 
francoys. 

Direct  references :  (  MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  II,  Part  II,  page  772. 
PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.  Vol.  VIII,  page  153. 
NICERON,  Memoircs,  Vol.  XXIII,  page  212. 
TERNAUX,  No.  37. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  I,  col.  293. 

Histor.  Typogr.  alq.  Parisiens.,  Part  II,  page  9. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  X,  No.  2189. 
Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  27. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  1 6,  No.  52. 
Hibbert  Catalogue,  No.  5205,  and  Raetzel's,  No.  1159. 


1 68.     CORTES  (FERNANDO)—  Within    a    border,    composed    of 
twenty-jive  escutcheons  of  Spanish  provinces  and  towns, 

#*  DE  INSVLIS  NV||PER  INVENTIS  FER 
DINAND:  CORTESII  ||  ad  Carolum  V.  Rom. 
Imperatorem  Narrationes,  cum  alio||  quo- 
dam  Petri  Martyris  ad  Clementem  VII. 
Pon  ||  tificem  Maximum  coniimilis  argu- 
menti||libello.||5[  His  accefferunt  Epiftolae 
duae.  de  feliciffimo  apud  Indos||Euangelij 
incremento,  quas  fuperioribus  hifce  diebus 
qui-||dam  fratres  Mino.  ab  India  in  Hif- 
paniam  tranfmilTerunt.  ||  ^f  Item  Epitome 
de  inuentis  nuper  Indiae  populis  idolatris|| 
ad  fidem  Chrifti,  atqp  adeo  ad  Ecclefiam 
Catholicam  conuer-||tendis,  Autore  P.  P. 
F.  Nicolao  Herborn,  regularis  obferuantias, 


288  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

*532'  ordinis  Minorum  General!  ComirmTario  || 
=  Cifmontano.  || 

f  Venduntur,  in  pingui  Gallina.  ||  Anno 
M.D.XXXII.H 

Then,  portrait  of  the  Emperor. 
Colophon  on  recto  of  the  last  leaf: 

^f  Coloniae  ex  officina  Melchioris  Noue- 
fiani,  Anno  M||DXXXII.  Decimo  Ka- 
lendas  mentis  Septembris.  || 

Verso  of  the  last  leaf,  after  a  printer's  mark,  with  the  inscription  : 

IN   PINGVI  GALLINA  : 

^f  Coloniae,  Impenfis  honefti  ciuis  Ar-|| 
noldi  BircKman.  Anno  Domini  ||  M.  D. 
XXXII.  Menfe  ||  Septembri.H* 

*#*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves 
-|-  eight  unnumbered  leaves  for  De  Insults  -\-  thirty  leaves  for 
the  Second  Narration  +  thirty-three  for  the  Third  Narration 
-f-  seven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

This  translation  of  the  Second  and  Third  Narrations 
of  Cortes   contains,   besides  Peter  Martyr's  De  Insults, 


*  Angltcl :  The  Narrations  of  Fernando  Christian  faith,  and  to  the  Catholic  Church, 

Cortes  to  Charles  V,  Emperor  of  Germany,  by    the    Rev.    Father   Nicholas    Herborn, 

concerning   the   islands   lately   discovered,  General    Cismontane   Commissary    of  the 

with  a  certain  other  tract  of  Peter  Martyr,  order    of    the    Minorites    of    the    regular 

to  Pope  Clement  VII,  on  a  similar  subject,  observance. 

To  these  are  added  two  letters  referring  to  Sold  at  the  Fat  Hen,  1532. 

the  most  fortunate  increase  of  the  Gospel  Cologne,  from    the   office   of  Melchior 

among  the  Indians,  which  certain  friars  of  Novesianus,  1532.,  tenth   Kalend  of  Sep- 

the   Minorite   order    transmitted    formerly  tember. 

from    India   to   Spain.      Also   an    Epitome  Cologne,  printed  by  the  honest  citizen 

concerning  the  conversion  of  the  idolatrous  Arnold   Birckman,  A.  D.  1532,  month  of 

people  of  India,  lately  discovered,  to  the  September. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  289 

a  letter  from   Friar  Martin  de  Valencia1,  dated  June    1532, 
1 2th,  1531,  at  the  convent  of  Thalmanaco  in  Yucatan,  -=—==— 
and  other  letters  sent  from  Mexico  by  Zumarraga,  the 
first  bishop  of  that  city,  which  will  be  found  in  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  1555*. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  423. 

MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Histories,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  269. 

TERNAUX,  No.  39. 

Bibliotheca  Grenvi/liana,  page  167. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  I,  No.  2037. 

Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  17,  No.  55. 

Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  8. 

Stevens'  American  Bibliographer^  page  87. 


169.    "  Martyrio    &c.   y  tres    cartas   de   Mexico, 
4to." 

We  find  this  short  notice  in  Rich's  Supplement  under 
the  date  of  1532,  but  are  unable  to  add  anything  to  it. 
Niceron  states5,  we  do  not  know  on  what  authority, 
when  speaking  of  the  Decades  and  especially  of  Hak- 
luyt's  edition:  "II  y  a  eu  d'autres  editions  faites  pre- 
cedemment  en  Espagne,  dont  j'ignore  les  dates."  This 
may  be  one  of  those  early  Spanish  editions,  but  we  very 
much  doubt  its  existence  anywhere  and  at  any  time. 
Were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  the  above  title  is  in  Spanish, 
we  should  think  that  Rich  meant  to  refer  to  the  Cologne 
edition  of  Savorgnano's  Cortes  (infra],  which  contains 
the  De  Insulis  of  Peter  Martyr,  and  several  letters  from 
Mexico. 

1  "(VALENCIA,  MARTIN) — Religiose  del  orden  tiempo  se  ha   ocultado  su  sepultura,  apesar  de  la 

de  San  Francisco  :  Nacib  en  la  villa  de  Don  Juan,  diligencias  que  han  hecho  los  Religiosos  desu  orden 

de  Castilla  la  Vieja,  fue  uno  de  los  primeros  Reli-  para  encontrarla:  escribio : 

giosos  que  pasaron  a  la  Nueva  Espana  el  ano  de          Cartas   sobre   diferentcs   cosas   de   los  Yndios: 

1524,  con  celo  apostolico  de  la  conversion  de  los  1532  fol. 

Yndios,  y  de  los  que  mas  frutocogieron  :  era  detail          El   Lutero   de    las    almas   de    Kuketan   [lie]   y 

consumada  virtud  que  murio  en  opinion  de  Santidad  Nueva  Espana  :  1532,  fol." 

en  el  Pueblo  de  Tlamanalco,  donde  por  tradicion  (ALCEDO,  Bib!.  Am.  MS.) 

dicen  que  ha  obrado  Dios  muchos  milagros  por  su  9  pp.  536—677. 

intercesion  ;  y  se  mantubo  su  cuerpo  entero  treinta  s    n/r--.   •  -    T»I-,   •        j 

anos   despues   de  su   muerte,   con   veneracion   de  Memoires  four  Ser-v,r  a   fhntoirt  des 

aquellos  Naturales,  hasta  que  con  el  discurso  del  hommes  lllustrcst  Vol.  XXIII,  p.  2 1  a. 

37 


290  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1532.     iyO.    ZIEGLER  (J.)— Recto  of  the  Jirst  leaf: 

QVAE  ||  INTVSCON  ||  TINENTVR.II  SYRIA,    ad 

Ptolomaici  operis  rationem,  Praeterea  Stra- 
bo||ne,  Plinio,  &  Antonio  audtoribus  lo- 
cupletata.  ||  PALESTINA,  iifdem  audoribus. 
Praeterea  Hi-||ftoria  facra,  &  lofepho,  & 
diuo  Hieronymo  locupletata.  ||  ARABIA  Pe- 
traea,  flue,  Itinera  filiorum  Ifrael  per  de-|| 
fertum,  iifdem  au&oribus.  ||  AEGYPPVS,  iif 
dem  audtoribus.  Praeterea  Ioanne||  Leone 
arabe  grammatico,  fecundum  recentiorum 
locorum  fitu,||illuftrata.||scHONDiA,  tradita 
ab  au6loribus,  qui  in  eius  o-||  peris  prologo 
memorantur.il  HOLMIAE,  ciuitatis  regie,  fue- 
tiae,  deplorabilis  exci-  ||  dij  Chriftiernum 
Datiae  cimbricae  regem,  hiftoria.  ||  REGION- 
VM  fuperiorum,  fingulae  tabulae  Geogra|| 
phicae.  || 

ARGENTORATI  \\apud  Petrum  Opilionem.|| 
M.  D.  XXXII. 


"V*  Folio,  one  hundred  and  ten  numbered  leaves  -J-  eighteen  un 
numbered  leaves,  occupied  with  maps  and  INCASTIGTIONEM. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  min.  charta  ct  typis  niti  dissimis1." 

James  Ziegler  or  Ciglerus*  was  a  Bavarian  theologian, 
born  in  1480,  who  cultivated  mathematics  and  cosmog- 


1  MXUSIL,  Bill.  Histor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  n,  p.  95.         a  SCHEFFER,  Suecia  Lit,,  p.  473. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  291 

raphy  with  success,  and  died  in  1549.  We  suppose 
that  the  above  is  the  book  referred  to  by  Mr.  Biddle', 
under  the  title  of  "  Ziegler's  work  on  the  Northern 
Regions  (Argent,  ed.  of  1532.  fol.  92.  b.)"  in  reference 
to  Cabot's  voyage.  It  is  the  only  work  of  Ziegler  which 
was  printed  at  Strasburg  in  1532,  and  although  the 
words  "  Liber  de  regionibus  septentrionahbus"  do  not 
appear  on  the  title,  we  know  that  there  is  a  part  of  the 
work  devoted  to  the  northern  regions  (under  the  quaint 
name  of  Schondia,  which  Ziegler  uses  for  Greenland,  Ice 
land,  &c.),  and  which  was  published  under  Biddle's  title 
latinized,  but  only  in  1542  (supra). 

In  the  chapter  on  Schondia,  under  the  head  of  Groen- 
landia,  on  the  reverse  of  leaf  xcn,  the  author  says : 

"  Petrus  Martyr  mediolanenfis  in  hifpanicis  nauigatioibus 
fcribit,  Antoninium  quendam  Cabotum  foluentem  a  Britannia, 
nauigaffe  continue  uerfus  feptentrionem,  quoad  incideret  in 
cruftas  glatiales  menfe  lulio,  inde  ergo  conuerfum  remigafTe 
continue  fecundum  littus  fefe  incuruans  auftrum  uerfus,  donee 
ueniret  ab  fitum  contra  Hifpaniam  fupra  Cubam  infulam  Cani- 
balum,"  &c. 

Moreri4  mentions  a  work  of  Ziegler  which  may  have 
some  bearing  on  the  subject:  De  Rebus  Indicis  libet  ; 
unless  it  is  the  chapter  de  Moluccis  insults,  added  to  the 
edition  of  1542. 

Direct  rcfcrcnctt :  (  FREYTAG,  Analecta  Litt.,  page  1114. 

•j  MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,  Part  TT,  page  95. 
(PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  iaz,  No.  121. 


I  7  !•     HUTTICH  OR  GRTN&US— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

NOVVS  ORBIS  REGIOn 

NVM     AC     INSVLARVM     VETERIBVS     INCOGNITA- 

RVM,  ||  una  cum  tabula  cofmographica,  & 

*  Memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  p.  31.          *  Dictionnaire  (i8th  edit.),  p    108, 


292  Eiblwtheca  Americana. 

1532.  aliquot  alijs  conflmilis  ||  argument!  libellis, 
-----  quorum  omnium  catalogus  ||  fequenti  pate- 

bit   pagina.  ||  His   acceffit   copiofus   rerum 

memorabilium  index.  || 


Then  printer's  mark  and  : 

Fata  uiam  inuenient. 
BASILEAE    APVD    lo.    HERVAGIVM,   MENSE 
MARTIO,  ANNO  M.D.XXXII.* 

*J|C*  Title    one    leaf  +  twenty-three    unnumbered    leaves  +  pages 
numbered  584.     Woodcuts  on  pages  30  and  129. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

"  Ed.  collectionis  prima1,"  and  certainly  an  invaluable 
collection,  which  reflects  credit  upon  John  Huttich,  who 
alone  compiled  it.  Simon  Grynaeus  only  wrote  the  pref 
ace,  yet  it  bears  the  latter's  name,  and  having  been 
printed  by  Hervagius,  Meusel1  calls  the  present  work 
Collectio  Huttichio-  Grynteo-Hervagiano. 

John  Huttich  was  born  at  Mentz  towards  1480,  and 
died  in  1544,  at  Strasburg,  where  he  held  one  of  the 
canonships  in  the  Cathedral  of  that  city3.  <c  Er  war  ein 
grosser  Freund  der  Alterthiimer,"  says  Jocher4. 

As  to  Simon  Grynaeus,  he  was  an  inveterate  talker5, 
one  of  the  early  Reformers,  the  personal  friend  of  Luther, 
Calvin  and  Melancthon,  and  the  fortunate  discoverer 
of  the  last  five  books  of  Livy,  hitherto  lost,  and  after- 

*  Anglict  :  A  new  globe  of  regions  and  Basle,  at  John  Hervagius',  March,  1532. 

islands  unknown  to  the  ancients,  together  *  Kloss  Catalogue,  No.  2887. 

with    a   cosmographical    table,    and    some  a  Bibliothcca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Pt.  I, 

other  treatises  containing  similar  things  j  p.  221. 

the  catalogue  of  which  will  appear  on  the  3  JOHANNES,  Serif  tores  Histor.  Mogun- 

following  page.     An  index  of  memorable  tina:,  Vol.  in,  p.  321. 

things  has  been  added.  *  Allgtmtlncs   Gelehrt.   Lexic.,  Vol.  II, 

"I  am  obvious."  col.  1792. 

"  Destiny  will  work  its  way  out."  *  HUET,  de  clar.  interf.,  Vol.  I,  p.  166. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  293 

wards  published  by  Erasmus.  Not  less  than  seven  of 
his  descendants,  all  bearing  the  name  of  Grynaeus,  have 
acquired  great  reputation  as  scholars  and  theologians. 
He  died  in  I54i6. 

Baillet  says  of  the  printer7 : 

"  Erasme  estimait  fort  Hervagius,  &  disait  que  nous  avons  obliga 
tion  a  Aide  de  nous  avoir  donne  le  premier  le  Prince  des  Orateurs 
\_Posterior  Scaligeran.  page  54],  mais  que  nous  sommes  beaucoup  plus 
redevables  a  Hervagius  de  1'avoir  mis  en  un  etat  beaucoup  plus  accom 
pli,  &  de  n'avoir  epargne  aucune  depense  ni  aucun  soin  pour  lui  donner 
la  perfection." 

The  chapters  which  are  of  importance  to  the  student 
of  American  history  are  : 

The  first  three  voyages  of  Columbus,  pp.  115-118. 
Vincente  Yanez  Pinzon's  voyage,  pp.  122-130. 
.  The  duplicate  of  Vespuccius'  third  voyage,  pp.  130-142. 
The  four  voyages  of  Vespuccius,  copied  from  Griininger's  edition 

(No.  60),  pp.  184-187. 
The  extract  of  the  fourth  Decade  of  Peter  Martyr,  pp.  570—584. 

Mr.  Grenville  says8 : 

"  The  Title-Page  announces  a  Map,  with  a  description  of  the  Map 
by  Munster',  but  no  map  has,  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  ever  been  seen  in 
this  edition.  Neither  do  Camus,  Meuselius,  Maittaire,  Panzer,  or 
any  of  the  Bibliographical  books  appear  to  have  noticed  in  this  and 
in  the  subsequent  editions  the  constant  deficiency  of  the  map." 

We  have  been  more  fortunate,  for  not  only  do  we 
know  of  a  number  of  catalogues10  which  advertise  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  Basle,  1532,  "with  a  map,"  but  we  have 
seen  several  copies  of  the  latter  edition  which  contained 
it.  Whether  they  were  the  maps  really  belonging  to 
the  work,  and  described  by  Munster,  we  are  unable  to 


'  Athcnat  Rauricae    p.  71.  temporibus  ab  Alberico  Vesputio  et  Christophoro 

7    c-s               .     TT  i    T           .o.     __j     D-..7  Columbo  multisque  alijs  insienibus  uiris  inventus 

7  yugementt,  Vol.  I,  p.  382,  and   Sail.  egt  qui  non  abs  re\uarta'orbis  ^  nuncupari  potest, 

Buchdruck.)  p.  Iiy-  ut  jam  terra  non  sit  tripartita,  sed  quadripartita ; 

8  Bibliotheca  Grcrrvilliana,  p    498.  quum  has  Indianasinsulaesuamagnitudine  Europam 
•I.    tabula*    co^raphi*    intM  ™^ ^™££  ££»  ^ M£ 

per  Scbaittanum  Munstcrum.     It  is  in  this 

kind   of  geographical   treatise  that  occurs  l°  See,  among  others,  Walcknaer's,  Tro- 

the  passage  so  often  quoted :  mel's»  Tross',  Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part 

"  In  Occano  occidental!  fere  nouus  Orbis  nostris  VII,  Nos.  2848  and  2849,  &c. 


2  94  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

say,  as  no  two  copies  of  this  edition  had  the  same.     We 
have  before  us  one,  which  is  as  follows  : 

On  one  line:  COSMOGRAPHICVS  VNIVER- 
SALIS.  ^  Then  a  highly  ornamented  border,  and  two 
inscriptions  within  a  square,  one  beginning  with  the  word 
INDIA,  and  the  other  SCVTARVM.  The  newly 
rediscovered  world  is  represented  on  the  north  of  a  long 
strip  of  land,  bearing  the  inscription  Terra  de  Cuba;  the 
isthmus  is  cut  asunder,  as  in  the  Chinese  maps.  The 
southern  part  contains  these  words  only :  Farias,  Cani- 
bali,  AMERICA  ||  TERRA  NOVA,  Prifilia.  Then, 
in  type  of  this  size,  the  word : 


ASIA. 


This,  which  we  call  A,  we  are  inclined  to  consider  as 
the  genuine  map.  We  have  seen  four  or  five  copies  of 
the  Novus  Orbls  of  Basle,  1537  (infra},,  each  containing 
a  map  which  is  literally  copied  from  the  present,  but 
with  this  only  difference  :  the  word  ASIA  is  printed 
in  a  kind  of  type  somewhat  different  and  smaller.  The 
latter,  which  we  call  B,  is  also  frequently  seen  in  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  Basle,  1555. 

Another  Novus  Orbis  of  Basle  1532",  contains  a  map 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : 

Tabula  nouarum  Infularum,  quas  diuer- 
fis  refpe&ibus  Occidentales  &  Indianas 
uocant. 

In  this,  which  we  call  C,  the  word  AMERICA  is 
not  to  be  found;  we  only  read  on  the  southern  part  of 
this  continent  : 

<c  Nou  orbis,"  Infula  Atlantica  quam  uocant  Brafil 
&  Americam,"  and  $ie  9Jiitt)  ||  2Mt.  || 


11  Bibliothcca  Browniana,  p.  1  6,  No.  53. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  295 

It  is  in  appearance  entirely  different  from  A  and  B;     1532, 
and,  if  our  memory  serves  us  right,  we  think  it  belongs  ________ 

to  some  of  the  small  folio  Ptolemies.  At  all  events,  we 
find  in  the  Ptolemy  of  H.  Petrus,  Basle,  1540  (infra), 
one  which  resembles  it  in  many  respects.  The  chief 
differences  between  the  latter  and  C,  consist  in  a  different 
title,  the  absence  of  the  German  inscription,  and  the 
addition  of  a  large  caravel  on  the  Pacific,  close  to  the 
Southern  continent. 

The  demand  for  bibliographical  rarities  of  this  kind 
always  brings  a  supply.  The  imagination  of  book 
sellers  is  fertile,  as  collectors  know;  the  Ptolemies  and 
Munsters  published  at  Basle  in  large  numbers  have  not 
all  found  their  way  into  the  waste  basket,  and  we  fancy 
that  these  present  an  easy  method  of  supplying  the 
cartographical  deficiency  in  the  Novus  Orbis,  so  fre 
quently  complained  of. 

The  edition  of  Paris,  1532  (No.  172),  contains  no 
additions.  That  of  Basle,  1537  (infra)  t  has  Maximilian 
of  Transylvania's  Letter  concerning  Magellan's  Voyage. 
In  the  edition  of  Basle,  1555,  the  following  have  been 
added :  The  Cortez  Narrations  (Second  and  Third),  the 
letters  on  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel  among  the 
Indians,  the  epistle  of  the  Bishop  of  Temixtitan  "in  Hu- 
ketan,"  and  the  summary  of  Herborn's  Discourse  on 
the  conversion  of  the  Indians  to  the  Catholic  faith.  As 
to  Balthazar  Lydius'  edition11,  Brunet  says : 

"  Ce  recueil  renferme  la  partie  de  la  collection  de  Grynaeus  qui  se 
rapporte  a  1'Amerique,  et  de  plus  la  dissertation  de  Varrerius,  vul- 
gairement  nomme  Caspar  Barreiros,  neveu  du  celebre  Jean  de  Barros." 

This  "  partie  qui  se  rapporte  a  1'Amerique,"  con 
sists  of: 

Navigatio  Cristofori  Colombi. 
"  Vinzentii  Pinzoni. 
"  Americi  Vesputii. 

13  Novas  orbis,  id  est  navigations  prlma  Varrcrll  discursum  de  Orphyra  regions; 
in  Amcrlcam :  quibus  adjunximut  Gasp.  Rotterdam,  8  vo,  1 61 6 


296  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2»  P-  Martyr,  de  Insults  nuper  inventis. 

Ferdinandi  Cortesii  narrationes. 
Nic,  Herborn,  de  Indis  convertendis. 


All  taken  from  the  1555  edition. 

Cornelius  Ablijn's  version  in  Dutch13,  contains  in 
addition  the  first  three  decades  of  Peter  Martyr.  Under 
the  date  of  1534,  we  describe  Michael  HerrV4  trans 
lation  into  German,  which  gives  only  the  chapters  in  the 
original  of  1532. 

Direct  references:  (  MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  Ill,  Part  I,  page  221. 
•<   PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  405. 
I   RICH,  No.  7. 
TERNAUX,  No.  38. 
CAMUS,  Memoires  sur  de  Bry,  page  6. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  132. 
TROMEL,  page  3,  No.  4. 

Catal.  Biblioth.  Theresiana,  Vol.  II,  page  150. 
Bibliotheca  Barloioiana,  page  12. 


I  7  2.     IDEM  OPUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

NOVVS   ORBIS    RE- ii 

GIONVM    AC    INSVLARVM    VE-  ||  teHbuS     inCOg- 

nitarum,  una  cum  tabula  cofmographica, 
&  ||  aliquot  aliis  confimilis  argument!  libel- 
lis,  quorum  ||  omnium  catalogus  fequenti 
patebit  pagina.  ||  His  acceffit  copiofus  re- 
rum  memorabilium  index.  II 


13  Die  Nicuive  Weerelt  der  Landt  sc hap-  Vander  Loe,  fol.,  1563.    +  4  11.   813   pp. 

fen   ende    Eylanden   die  tot   hier   toe   alien  B.  L.     (Private  Library,  Providence.     See 

ouden  Weerelt  besckriberen  onbckcnt  gciuccst  Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  No.  138.) 
sign.      Waer     nu    onlanc    vanden    Poortu-          14  Not   Kerr,  as  it  is  printed  supra,  p. 

galoiseren  en  Hispaniercn;    Antwerp,  Jan  64,  in  line  7  of  note  102. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  297 

Then  vignette  representing  a  galley  bearing  the  lilies  of  France,     I  ^^2. 
with  the  motto  :  


VOGUE     LA     GALEE.        PARISIIS     APVD     GALE- 

OTVM  A'  ||  Prato,  in  aula  maiore  Palatii  regii 
ad  primam  columnam.  || 

Colophon  : 

Impreffum  Parifiis  apud  Antonium  Au- 
gellerum,  impenfis  Ioannis||  Parui  &  Gale- 
oti  a  Prato.  Anno  M.D.XXXII.  VIII.  || 
Galen.  Nouembris.  || 

*5j{*  Folio,  of  larger  size  than  No.  171  (which  is  also  a  folio), 
title  one  leaf  (with  table  of  contents  on  the  verso) ;  -f-  twenty- 
four  preliminary  leaves,  including  nineteen  of  index,  -|-  five 
hundred  and  fourteen  pages  (p.  512  marked  502,  and  p.  514, 
marked  507),  +  one  leaf  containing  on  its  recto  the  register 
and  colophon ;  the  verso  blank.  Map.  The  woodcut  on  page 
30,  in  No.  170,  is  here  omitted. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  map  in  one  of  the  copies  before  us,  instead  of 
being  that  which  is  usually  found  in  the  Paris  edition 
(described,  supra,  in  No.  171,  as  D),  is  the  map  which 
we  call  A  on  page  294.  The  other  copy1  contains  Oron- 
tius  Fine's  map.  Cancellieri2  says  of  this  edition  Cf  piu 
rara  di  tutte." 


Direct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  II,  Part  II,  page  773. 
PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  Tin,  page  153,  No.  2131. 
HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IT,  page  122.  note. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  IT,  col.  132. 
Bibliotheca  Eroivniana,  page  16,  No.  54. 
Bibliotkeca  Barlo'wiana,  page  13. 


Dissertation! . 

38 


29 8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

C  3  2.  I73*     HUTTICH   OR   GRTN&US— Precisely  tike  the  above,  with 

—  this  exception : 

Instead  of  Galliot  Du  Pre's  printer's  mark,  there  is  Jehan  Petit's, 
but  differing  somewhat  from  the  two  specimens  inserted  in  Brunet, 
as  the  name  of  the  printer  is  repeated  several  times  within  the  vig 
nette,  and  the  lions'  heads  are  of  a  much  bolder  type.  Then  below  : 

PARISIIS  APVD  IOANNEM  ||  Pa- 
ruum  fub  flore  Lilio,  uia  ad  fanctum 
lacobum. 

As  to  the  map,  it  is  that  which  belongs  properly  to 
the  Paris  edition,  and  is  as  follows : 

In  a  scroll  :  &  NOVA,  ET  INTEGRA  VNI- 
VERSI  ORBIS  DESCRIPTIO.  ^  Then  a  double- 
folded  homeoterical  mappemund.  On  the  right  of 
the  reader  there  is  a  separate  continent,  bearing  the 
following  inscriptions:  BRASIELIE  REGIO,  RE- 
GIO  PATALIS.  ^  TERRA  AVSTRALIS  REi|| 
center  inuenta,  fed  nondu  plene  cognita.  ||  CIRCVLVS 
ANTARCTICVS;  and  below,  an  elongated  penin 
sula,  rising  from  south  to  north,  and  containing  many 
words  in  small  type,  among  which  we  read:  Mons paf- 
qualis,  R.  S.Jebaft.  R.  brazil,  R.  real;  Monte  fregofo,  and 
A  ||  ME  ||  RI  ||  CA.  ||  On  the  left  of  the  reader,  emerg 
ing  from  the  border,  there  are  several  narrow  strips, 
with  the  names :  Terra  florida,  Cuba,  Tucatans,  lanaica 
[sic].  Above,  we  notice  a  coat-of-arms  exhibiting  the 
lilies  of  France  quartered  with  three  dolphins.  In  the 
lower  part  of  the  map,  within  a  square  frame,  the  in 
scription  : 

"  Orontius  .  F.1  Delph  .  ad  lectorem." 

Offerimus  tibi,  candidi  lector,  vniversam  orbis  terrarvm  descrip- 
tionem,  juxta  recentium  Geographorum  ac  Hydrographorum  mentem, 


1  /'.  e.  ORONTIUS  FINE.  When  we  rec-  knowledge,  especially  in  matters  pertaining 
ollect  the  wonderful  activity  displayed  by  to  Cosmography,  and  his  skill  as  a  cartog- 
this  unfortunate  man,  the  extent  of  his  rapher,  we  are  inclined  to  believe  that 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  299 

seruatatum  ^quatoris,  turn  parallelorum  ad  eas  quas  ex  centris  pro-     I  C^  2. 
portione,  gemina  cordis  humani  formula  in  piano  co-extensam  :   qua-  _...__._..._. 
rum  lasua  borealem,  dextra  vero  Australem  Mundi  partem  complec- 
titur  .  Tu   igitur   munusculum    hoc    liberaliter    excipito  :   habetoque 
gratias  Christiano  Wechelo,  cujus  fauore  et  impensis  haec  tibi  com- 
municarimus  .  Vale,  1531.     Mense  Julio." 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references  :  J  ALCEDO,  Bibliotheca  Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  II,  page  641. 
\  Asher  Catalogue  for  1865. 

1 74..  FRANCK  (SEBASTIAN)—"  Weltbuch  :   fpiegel  vnd    1533* 
bildnifz  des  gantzen  erdbodens  in  4  Bikhern,  neurlich 

o 

in  Afiam,  Aphrica,  Europam  vnd  America  von  neu- 
wen  vnbekanten  welten,  Infeln  vnd  erdtrichen  fo  newlich 
erfunden  worden  feindt  geftelt  und  abgetheilt  .  .  .  nitt 
aus  Berofo,  Joanne  de  montevilla,  S.  Brandons  Hif- 
tori  und  dergleichen  fabeln,  funder  aus  angenummenen 
glaubwirdigen  erfamen  weltbefchribern  mufelig  zu  hauff 
tragen  etc.  Tub.,  Ulr.  Morhart  1533.  in-fol." 

(GRAESSE1.) 

This  edition  is  the  earliest  we  could  find  of  Sebastian 
Franck's  well-known  Mirror  of  the  World.  We  describe, 
infra,  under  the  dates  of  1534  and  1542,  original  copies 
of  this  curious  work,  which  was  translated  into  Flemish 
in  1563. 

the   following   may  contain  some  curious  a   notice   of  an   edition    of    1534,   which 

matter  concerning  the  New  World:  "  Pro-  may  only  be  the   edition  of  1536,  which 

tomathefis  :     opus    varium,    ac    fcitu    non  bears  the  date  of  15  34  on   the  title-page 

minus  utile  quam  neceffarium,  &c.    Parifiis  and  "  tausent  funffhundert  vier  und  dreys- 

afud  Simoncm  Colinacum  MDXXXII.  fol.  segsten  jar,"  in  the  Colophon. 
cumfgg.     Main.  n.  p.  768.     Bibl.  Thott.         *  "  EDEN  (RICHARD)— Treatise  of 

ill.  Pt.  I.  p.  z . " — (PANZER.)  the    new    India,    with    other    Newfound- 

The  third  part  of  the  Protomathtsis  bears  landes    and    Ilandes.       Lond.    E.    Sutton, 

the   title  of  De   Cosmographia  si-ve   mundi  1533."    (LOWNDES,  Bibliogr.  Manual,  sec- 

sphara  Litri  V,  and  it  is  in  this  that  the  ond  edition,    Part   in,    p.    712;    BRUNZT, 

reader  who  has  access  to  the  work  must  GRAESSE,  &c.) 

look    for   the   passages,   if  any   there    be,          This    is    only     Eden's     translation     of 

relating  to  America.  Munster,   and  should    read    1553  instead 

1  Tresor,  Vol.  II,  p.   627,  contains  also  of  1533. 


300  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

C  7  '2.  I  7  C.     COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

BELLVM    CHRISTI/  ||  ANORVM    PRIN- 

CIPVM,   PRAECIPVE    GALLO  ||  RVM,  CONTRA  SARA- 

CENOS,  ANNO  sALVTis  ||  M.Lxxxvin  pro  terra 
fandia  geftum  :  autore  ||  ROBERTO  MOMACHO 
[sic].  ||  CAROLVS  Verardus  de  expugnatione 
regni  Granatae  quae  con  ||  tigit  ab  hinc  quad- 
rageflrno  fecundo  anno,  per  Catholicu 
regem  ||  Ferdinandum  Hifpaniarum.  ||  Crif- 
tophorus  Colom  de  prima  infularum,  in 
mari  Indico  fitarumj  luftratione,  quae  fub 
rege  Ferdinando  Hifpaniarum  fada  eft.  || 
De  legatione  regis  Aethiopiae  ad  Clemen- 
tern  pontificem  vii.  ac  Rege  Portugalliae  : 
item  de  regno,  hominibus,  atcp  moribus 
eius/ 1|  dem  populi,  qui  Trogloditae  hodie 
effe  putantur.  ||  loan.  Baptifta  Egnatius  de 
origine  Turcarum.  ||  Pomponius  Laetus  de 
exortu  Maomethis.  ||  Lector  humaniffime 
habes  hie  opus  quarundam  hiftoriaru,  quas  || 
iam  primu  typis  noftris  ex  antique  & 
fcripto  exemplari  in  com  ||  modum  tuum 
euulgauimus.||BAsiLEAE  EXCVDEBAT  HENRICVS/ 

PETRVS    MENSE    AVGVSTO.  || 

Colophon : 

BASILEAE     EXCVDEBAT     HENRICVS     PE/  ||  TRVS 
MENSE    AVGVSTO    ANNO  ||  M.D.XXXIII.  || 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  301 

*J)c*  Folio;  title  one  leaf,  -\-  index  in  two  unnumbered  leaves,  +  I  C  7  'J 
one  blank,  -f-  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  numbered  leaves,  +  _ _^____ 
one  leaf,  blank  on  the  recto,  with  printer's  mark  on  verso. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  early  authors,  when  referring  to  the  first  letter 
of  Columbus,  generally  quote  this  collection.  The  De 
Insulis  is  inserted,  pages  116-121,  under  the  following 
title :  Christ  ophorus  Columb  (sic]  de  prima  Insularum  in 
mari  Indicio  sitarum  lustratione. 

"  Et  pour  ce  qui  est  d'Henric  Petri  [the  printer,  born  in  1508'] 
on  peut  voir  ce  qui  est  sorti  de  sa  boutique  dans  le  catalogue  que  ses 
heritiers  en  firent  imprimer  in-4°  a  Basle,  avec  une  continuation." 

(BAILLET2.) 

Direct  references:  (  PANZER,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  296,  No.  937. 
-|    GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  228. 
I    Bibliotheca  Grcn-villiana,  page  610. 
Bibliotheca  Brovvniana,  page  17,  No.  57. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  page  240,  No.  3366. 

176.     MARTYR   (PETER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

PETRI  MARTYRIS||AB  ANGLERIA  ME- 
DIOLANEN.  ORATORIS  ||  clariffimi,  Fernandi 
&  Helifabeth  Hifpaniarum  quondam  re- 
gum  ||  a  confilijs,  de  rebus  Oceanicis  &  Orbe 
nouo  decades  tres :  quibus  ||  quicquid  de 
inuentis  nuper  terris  traditum,  nouarum 
rerum  cupi- 1|  dum  le&orem  retinere  poffit, 
copiofe,  fideliter,  eruditecg  docetur||  EIVS- 

DEM      PRAETEREA  ||  LEGATIONIS      BABY- 

LONICAE      LI  ||  BRI      TRES   :      VBI     PRAETER 

ORATORII    MVNERIS  ||  pulcherrimum    exem- 

1  Easier  Buchdruckcrgcsch.,  pp.  147-  2  Jugcmcns  des  Savons  sur  les  princi- 
149,  fac-simile  of  the  printer's  mark,  and  faux  outrages  des  auteurs,  Vol.  I,  page 
sketch  of  Petri,  the  printer.  382. 


302  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1533.  plum,  etiam  quicquid  in  uariarum  gentium 

— =  mori- 1|  bus  &  inftitutis  infigniter  preclarum 

uidit,  quecp  terra  maricg  acciderunt,  omnia 

le&u  mire  iucunda,  genere  dicendi  poli- 

tiffimo  traduntur.|| 

Then  printer's  mark  (a  palm  tree  and  PALMA  BEB). 

BASILEAE,  ||  apud    loannem    Bebelium  || 
M.D.XXXIII.  ||* 

Colophon  : 

Bafileae,  per  lo.  Bebelium,  An.  a  Chrifto 
nato  M.  D.  xxxin.  pridie  calend.  Septemb. 

*.£*  Elongated  folio;  title  one  leaf-f- eleven  unnumbered  preliminary 
leaves  including  the  index  +  ninety-two  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

Contains  only  the  first  three  decades,  and  the  abridg 
ment  of  the  fourth. 


Direct  references  :  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  297,  and  Vol.  IX,  page  407 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol,  in,  Part  I,  page  273. 
RICH,  No.  8. 
TERNAUX,  No.  40. 
TROMEL,  No.  5. 

Bibliotheca  Hcbcriana,  Part  VI,  No.  2415. 
Bibliotheca  Broioniana,  page   17,  No.  58. 
Rothelin  Catalogue,  No.  4359. 

Kloss  Catalogue,  page  193,  No.  2695,  describes  Melancthon's  copy 
with  marginal  notes. 


*  Anglice  :  The  three  decades  of  Peter  the  same  concerning  his  ambassy  to  Baby- 
Martyr  d'Anghiera,  Milanese,  the  most  Ion  [Cairo],  which,  besides  the  finest 
celebrated  orator,  counsellor  of  the  late  specimen  of  oratorical  talent,  exhibits  in 
sovereigns  of  Spain,  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  language  most  elegant  and  of  the  highest 
which,  by  setting  forth  in  a  copious,  faith-  interest  to  the  reader,  every  remarkable 
ful  and  learned  manner  everything  con-  thing  seen  by  him  on  the  subject  of  the 
cerning  the  countries  recently  discovered,  customs  and  institutions  of  the  different 
may  captivate  ths  attention  of  the  reader  nations, 
curious  of  novelties.  Also,  three  books  of  Basle,  at  John  Bebelius',  1533- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  303 

.     ZUMMARAGA  (J.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  *  5  3  3' 


©rofe- 


tm  fjoljett  S!Jtoren(anb,  ben  man||gemetn- 
fidj  nennet  ^riefter  Sojau,  an  $afcft  ||  (£(emen§  ben 
(Si&enben,  jn  Sonoma  ||  berljort  in  offnen  Gonftftorto  am 
xxix.  tag  Sannarii  ^nno  ||  J&.  3B.  mitf.  If  StefeS 
SnrfjleinS  jnljatt.  ||  drftlid),  (fin  lur^e  fieWreibttng  be§ 
$toren(anb§,  ||  fam^t  ber  ^anblung  im  ^onflftorio  ||  Sum 
anbern,  ein  Senbfideff  bc§  ^onig§  bon  gJortu-  1|  pi  an 
Safift  ^(emcnt  ben  6ieknben.  ||  3«w  btitten, 
brieff  be§  9Jlorenlontg§  |  ait  Saftft  dement. 
®umanttm  aon  biffem  9Jlorenlonigr  fci-||ne  ^Bolrfern,  anb 
iren  8itten  am  dnbc  bifc§  Su^letng.  H  S«  le^t, 
®cnbfirieff  bc§  Sifo^op  ber  groffem  ||  ftabt 
in  ber  ^emen  erfunbeun  II  taelt,  gen  £o(ofa  in 
reidj  gcftfjnOeu.  || 

*^*  410,  //'»^  anno  aut  loco,  title  one  leaf  +  eighteen  unnumbered 
leaves.     (Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  La  lettre  de  1'eveque  de  Temistitan  (ville  de  Mexico)  [Juan 
Zummaraga],  adressee  au  chapitre  des  Franciscains  tenu  en  1532 
a  Toulouse,  qui  se  trouve  jointe  a  cet  opuscule  en  traduction  alle- 
mande,  traite  de  1'etat  et  du  progres  des  missions  dans  le  Nouveau- 
Monde.  Le  texte  original  se  trouve  aussi  parmi  les  pieces  contenues 
a  la  fin  de  la  Chronique  d'Amandus." 

(TROMEL1.) 

Tromel  seems  inclined  to  consider  W[olfang]  Stockel 
of  Dresden  as  the  printer  of  this  miscellaneous  collection. 
According  to  Santarem2,  Stockel  exercised  his  trade  as 
early  as  1495.  Falkenstein  says5  "bis  1519;"  while  the 
latest  date  ascribed  to  Stockel  by  Panzer4  is  1524. 

1  Bibl.  Amer.,  p.  4,  No.  6.     This  quota-          a  Dictionaire  bibliogr.,  Vol.  I,  p.  396. 
tion  disposes  of  Mr.   Asher's  assertion  as         3  Geschichte  dcr  Buchdruck.,  p.  181. 
made  in  his  catalogue  for  1865,  No.  28.  4  Annalcs  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  xi,  p.  304. 


304  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

17^*     SCHONER  (J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

IOANNIS  SCHO/ 

NERI   CAROLOSTADII   OPVSCV- 
LVM   GEOGRAPHICVM    EX    DIVERSORVM   LI 

bris  ac  cartis  fumma  cura  &  diligentia  col- 
le  ||  £bum,  accomodatum  ad  recenter  ela-|| 
boratum  ab  eodem  globum  de- 1|  fcriptionis 
terrenae.  HIOACHIMI  CAMERARII.|| 

Forte  oculis  clari  fpectas  qui  fidera  coeli 

In  fubiectum  etiam  lumina  flecte  folum 

Non  eft  res  indigna  tua  ifta  cupidine  lector, 

Ilia  magis  pulcra  eft,  haec  quoqz  pulcra  tamen. 

Quid  dubitas  :  fi  de  aetheria  uitam  trahis  aura, 

Pabula  fed  tellus  &  tibi  praebet  iter. 

Hanc  uis,  quanta  patet,  breuibus  cognofcere  cartis. 

Hoc  modicum  luftrans  perfpice  lector  opus. 

Nee  quae  funt  olim  nee  quae  modo  fcripta  requires 

Cun£ta  tibi  paruo  plana  futura  libro. 

.  "  Ex  urbe  Norica  id  .  Novembris .  Anno  XXXIII1." 

*,„*   410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  title  one  leaf  +  nineteen  unnumbered 
leaves,  woodcuts  of  globes. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

It  is  in  this  work  that  the  reader  will  find  the  first 
(see  supra,  page  65)  of  that  long  series  of  calumnies 
which  have  fastened  on  the  memory  of  Vespuccius  the 
odious  charge  of  having  artfully  inserted  the  words 
"  Terra  ai  Amerigo"  in  charts  which  he  had  otherwise 
altered.  "Americus  Vesputius  maritima  loca  Indiae 
superioris  ex  Hispaniis  navigio  ad  occidentem  perlus- 


1  Bibliotheca  Browniana,  p.  17,  No.  56. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  305 

trans,  earn  partem  quae  superioris  Indiae  est,  credidit    1533.* 
esse   Insulam   quam    a    suo   nomine   vocari    instituit."  , 

Yet  it  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  Schoner's  own  globe, 
made  in  1520,  and  still  preserved  in  the  city  library  at 
Nuremberg,  gives  this  name  of  America  v el  Brasilia  sive 
papagalli  terra  to  the  southern  part  of  the  new  continent. 
See  caps,  xx,  xxi,  Regiones  extra  Ptolemteum,  and  the 
last  page  for  a  notice  of  Brazil. 

"  Even  in  1533,  the  astronomer  Schoner  maintained  that  the  whole 
of  the  so-called  New  World  was  a  part  of  Asia  (superioris  Indiae), 
and  that  the  city  of  Mexico  (Temistitan)  conquered  by  Cortes,  was 
no  other  than  the  Chinese  commercial  city  of  Quinsay,  so  excessively 
extolled  by  Marco  Polo." 

(HuMBOLDT8.) 

Direct  references  :  f  DOPPELMAIER,  Histor.  Nachr.  -v.  Niirnb.  MatAematicis,  page  50. 
HUMBOLDT,  Examcn  Critique,  Vol.  v,  page  171. 
SANTAREM,  Vapuct. 
Catal.  Biblioth.  Bunav.,  Vol.  u,  page  30. 


APIANUS  (PETER}— Above  a  vignette  of  a  mounted  globe  : 

COSMOGRAPHI-  ||  cvs  LIBER  PETRI  APIANI  MA-  ||  thema- 
tici,  iam  denuo  integritati  reftitutus  ||  per  Gemmam  Phryfium.  || 
Item  eiufdem  Gemmae  Phryfii  Libellus  de  Locorum  de-  ||  fcriben- 
dorum  ratione,  &  de  eorum  disftantiis  in-  ||  ueniendis,  nunq'  ante 
hac  vifus.  ||  Vaeneut  Antuerpie  fub  fcuto  Baliliefi  p'  Gregoriu 
Bontiu.  || 

Colophon  : 

loan.  Grapheus  typis  cudebat  Antuerpiae,  ||  Anno  M.D. 
XXXIII.  ||  menfe  Febr.  || 

["  Veneunt  in  pingui  Gallina  per  Arnoldum  Birckman.*"] 

***  410,  sixty-six  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Paris.) 

See  recto  of  leaf  34,  and  verso  of  51. 


3  Kosmos,  Entvv.  e.  fhys.  Weltbcschr.  *  "  P.  Apiani  Introductio  Geografhica ; 

Vol.  n,  p.  613  of  English  translation.  Ingolst.,  1533,  410."  (Bibliotheca  Hebe- 

3  MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Typogr.,'Vo\.  II,  riana,  Part  V,  No.  5398),  we  think  iden- 

Part  II,  p.  786.  tical  with  our  No.  149. 

39 


306  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I533*          l8o.    IDEM  OPUS—  "  Frib.  Brifg.,  Paris,  1533,  4to.' 


«-————-—-•  (GRAESSE.) 

1 8  I.    "  Marine!  Siculi.     Opus  de  rebus  Hifpaniae 
memorabilibus.     Compluti,  1533,  folio." 

(Bibliotheca  Heberiana1 .) 

182.  IDEM—  "  Obra   de    las    cofas    memorables    de 
Efpana.     Alcala,  Eguia,  1533.  fol. — Gothic  Letter." 

(EBERT3.) 

183.  LORITZ—  "Henrici  Gla||reani  Helvetii,  Poetae 
Lav-  ||  reati,   de   Geographia    Li-  ||  ber   vnvs,    ab    ipfo 
Av- 1|  thore   iam   tertio  ||  recognitvs.  ||  Apvd   Fribvrgvm 
Brif-\\goiae,  An.  M.DiXXXIII.||[C<?/^»]  Apvd  Fri- 
bvrevm    Brisgoicvm  I!  Anno   M.D.XXXIII.  ||  Excvde- 

O  D  IJ 

bat    loannes     Faber  ||  Emmevs    Ivliacensis,  ||  35  foliod 
leaves ;  and  one  with  woodcut  on  the  reverse.  4to." 

(Historical  Nuggets3  ) 

1C  74..*          184.    IDEM  OPUS—  "  De    Geographia,    woodcut  dia- 
•  =  grams,   with   xylographic  inscriptions.     8vo.  Venetiis,  J. 

A.  de  Sabio,  1534." 

(Libri  Catalogue4.) 

1  Part  II,  No.  3619.  *  Ternaux  mentions  (No.  44)  under  the 

a  Dictionary,  No.    13113,   and    Biblio-  date  of  1534:  "  Novus  orbis  regionum  ac 

theca  Heberiana,  Part  I,  No.  4681.  insularum  veteribus  incognitarum,  Basilea. 

3  No.   12.47,  and  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  In-fol.       Deuxieme    edition,"    which    we 
Typogr.,  Vol.  n,   Part  n,   p.  786;   PAK-  think  to    be   only  the  followin-;  German 
ZER,  Annales  Typographic!  ab  art's  in-vcnta  translation  (No.  188),  with  atit'e  borrowed 
originc.  Vol.  vn,  p.  60.  for  the  Bibliotheque   Americaine  from  the 

4  For  1861,  No.  278.  edition  of  1532. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  307 

FRANCIS  OF  BOLOGNA— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I 

LA  LETERA  ||  Mandata  dal  R.  Padre  = 
frate  Francefco  da  Bo  ||  logna,  da  Lindia, 
ouer  noua  Spagna:  &  dalla  ||  Citta  di  Mex 
ico  al.  R.  P.  frate  Clemete  da  Mo  ||  nelia, 
Miniftro  della  Prouincia  di  Bologna,  ||&  a 
tutti  li  Veneradi  padri  di  effa  prouin  ||  cia 
Tradotta  in  vulgare  da  vno  frate  ||  dil  pre- 
fato  ordine  de  minori  d' offer  ||uanza.  Doue 
fi  narra  la  moltitu-  ||  dine  de  le  perfone 
che  fono  co  ||  uertite  &  che  fi  conuertano  || 
alia  fede,  &  il  grande  pre  ||  fente  che  li 
hanno  ma/ 1|  dato  al  noftro  Papa  ||  Paulo 
terzo,  la  qualita  dell'  acre  di  detto  mon/|| 
do  nouo,  la  gradezza  del  paefe,  1'oro, 
1'argeto,  ||  e  pietre  preciofe,  la  bota  delle 
acque,  i  cofturni  ||  del  vino,  di  monti,  bofchi, 
animali,  &  gra  ||  de  abondantia  di  for- 
mento,  &  altri  ||  grani,  La  qualita  de  gli 
huomi  ||  ni  &  done,  gli  effercitii,  la  ||  fede, 
la  ruina  de  loro  ||  Idoli,  &  modi  ||  che 
tenea  ||  no  prima,  &  altre  infinite  cofe 
piace  ||  uole  da  intendere.  ||* 

Colophon : 

C  In  Venetia  per  Paulo  Danza.  || 

*  Anglice  :  Letter  from  the  Reverend  to  the  Reverend  Father  Clement  of  Mone- 
Father  Francis  of  Bologna,  written  from  lia,  Superior  of  the  Province  of  Bologna, 
the  city  of  Mexico  in  India  or  New  Spain,  and  to  all  the  reverend  fathers  of  that 


3o8 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


***  4to>  s*ne  anno  aut  ^OCO)  t^t^e  one 
-|-  one  blank. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


six  unnumbered  leaves, 


We  place  the  present  work  under  the  date  of  1534, 
on  the  authority  of  the  following  notice,  which  we  bor 
row  from  Orlandi1  : 

"  Francefco  Alle  Minore  Oflervante  di  S.  Francisco.  Copia  di 
lettera  cavata  dall'  originale,  fcritta  dal  Mefico  1'anno  1534^!  fuo 
fratelli,  e  madre.  Zani,  nel  Genio  Vagante,  p.  4,  fol.  87." 

According  to  Panzer*,  Paul  Danza  printed  between 
the  years  1526  and  1534. 

Ternaux3  published  a  translation  into  French  of  this 
interesting  Letter. 

Direct  reference:  RICH,  Supplement,  page  I. 


I  8  6.     PETER  OF  GAND— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

CHRONICA  ||  COMPENDIOSISSIMA  AB  ||  exordio  mundi  vfqz  ad 
annum  Domini  ||  Millefimum,  quingentefimu  trigefimu  ||  quar- 
tum  :  per  venerandum  patrem.  F.  ||  Amandum  Zierixeenfem, 
ordinis  Fra  ||  trum  Minoru,  regularis  obferuan-  ||  tiae,  virum  in 
Diuinis  &  huma||nis  rebus  peritiffimum.  \  EIVSDEM  TRACTATVS 
DE  ||  feptuaginta  hebdomadibus  Danielis.  ||  ADIECTAE  SVNT  EPIS- 
TO  |j  lae  duae  quae  Chriftiani  regis  Aethopiae,  Dauidis,  ad  ||  Clemen- 
tern  feptimum,  Rhomanum  pontificem,  ||  anno  Domini  1533 
deftinatae,  cu  articulis  quibuf||dam  de  fide  &  moribus  Aethi- 
opum  Chriftiano-  ||  rum.  \  Aliae  quoqz  tres  epiftolae,  ex  noua 
maris  ||  Oceani  Hiipania  ad  nos  tranfmifTae,  de  fruftu  ||  mirabili 
illic  furgentis  nouae  Ecclefiae,  ||  ex  quibus  animus  Chriftianus  || 
merito  debeat  laetari.  || 

T  Antuerpiae    apud    Simonem    Cocum.      Anno    Do- 
M.CCCCC.XXXIIII.     Menfe  Maio.  II 


mini. 


province.  Translated  into  the  vernacular 
language  by  a  brother  of  the  said  minor 
order  of  Observance.  Herein  is  shown  the 
great  number  of  persons  converted  to  the 
faith,  the  great  present  sent  to  our  Pope, 
Paul  III;  the  greatness  of  the  country;  the 
gold,  silver,  precious  stones;  the  good  qual 
ity  of  the  waters  ;  the  customs,  wine, 
mountains,  woods,  animals  ;  the  great 


quantity  of  wheat  and  other  grains;  the 
constitution  of  the  men  and  women ;  the 
armies,  religion,  destruction  of  their  idols 
and  former  worship,  and  many  other  things 
very  well  worth  knowing. 

1  Notizie  dcgli  scrittori  Bologncsi,  p.  117. 

2  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  XI,  p.  231. 

3  Recueil  des  pieces  re/ati-ves  a  la  conqutte 
du  Mcxique,  1838,  pp.  205—121. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  309 

Colophon:  ^534' 

T[  Symon  Coquus  Antuerpianus,  morans  ||  in  vico  vulgariter,  '- 

nuncupate  Die  Lorn-  ||  baerde  vefte,  eregione  Manus  deaura-  || 
tae,  excudebat.  Anno  Domini,  M.  ||  CCCCC.XXXIIII.  Menfe 
Maio.  ||* 

*+*  Sm.  8vo;  eight  unnumbered  leaves  -|-  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
eight  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Owl's  Head.) 

"  AMANDUS,  surnomme  (says  Tromel)  de  Zierikzee,  de  sa  ville 
natale  dans  1'ile  de  Schouwen1,  etait  un  religieux  franciscain  du  com 
mencement  du  XVP  siecle,  qui,  comme  provincial  de  son  ordre,  con- 
tribua  beaucoup  a  1'amelioration  des  monasteres  dans  les  Pays-Bas. 
Par  la  suite  il  devint  professeur  de  theologie  a  Louvain  ou  il  mourut 
le  8  juin  1534".  Ce  qui  nous  interesse  le  plus  dans  sa  Chronique, 
que  nous  avons  sous  les  yeux,  ce  sont  les  lettres  ecrites  par  differents 
religieux  residant  au  Mexique,  qui  s'y  trouvent  jointes  et  qui  traitent 
du  progres  des  missions  catholiques  dans  ce  pays.  Aucun  biblio- 
graphe  n'en  fait  mention  et  nous  ne  trouvons  nulle  part  une  citation 
de  ces  lettres,  qui  ne  sont  pas  sans  interet." 

Among  the  letters  mentioned,  there  is  one  by  Peter 
of  Gand,  alias  De  Mura,  dated  June  ayth,  1529,  which 
has  been  translated  into  French  by  Ternaux3,  from 
whom  we  borrow  the  following  note : 

"  Frere  Martin  de  Valence  s'exprime  ainsi  au  sujet  de  ce  religieux 
[De  Mura]  dans  une  lettre  addressee  au  reverend  pere  Matthias 
Weynssen,  general  de  son  ordre,  en  date  de  1531  :  "  Au  nombre  des 
freres  erudits  dans  la  langue  des  Indiens,  est  un  laique  nomme  Pierre 
de  Gand,  il  s'exprime  dans  cette  langue  avec  beaucoup  d'eloquence, 
et  instruit  avec  le  plus  grand  soin  plus  de  six  cents  enfants.  C'est  lui 
qui  a  la  direction  des  chceurs  dans  les  jours  de  fete.  II  marie  avec  les 
plus  grandes  solennites  aux  Indiens  qui  leur  sont  destines  pour  epoux 


*  Anglice  :  Very  compendious  chronicle  dressed  to  us  from  New  Spain  in  the  Ocean, 

beginning  with  the  creation  of  the  world,  concerning  the  wonderful  development  of 

down  to  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1534,  by  the  the   new  church   which   is   springing    up 

Rev.  Father  F.  Amandus  Zierikzee,  of  the  there,  and  must  justly  rejoice  the  human 

order  of  St.  Francis,  of  the  regular  observ-  mind. 

ance,  a  most  learned  man  in  divine  and         Antwerp,  by  Simon  Cocus,  A.  D.  1533, 

human  matters.    The  treatises  of  the  same  in  the  month  of  May. 
on  the  seventy  weeks  of  Daniel.     There          *  DE  WIND,  Nederl.  Gesckrid.,  p.  1 34. 

has  been  added  two  letters  of  the  Christian  V.  HEUSSEN,   Ondh.  -v.  Zetland,  Vol.  n, 

King  of  Ethiopia,  David,  addressed  to  the  p.  52. 

Roman  Pope  Clement  VII,  in   the  year         a  FOPPENS,   Bibliotheca  Belgica,  Vol.  I, 

1533,  together  with  some  items  concern-  p.  48. 

ing  the  creed  and  customs  of  the  Christian         '  Recueil  des  pieces  relatives  a  la  Conquete 

Ethiopians.     Also,  three  other  letters  ad-  du  Mexique,  1838,  pp.  193-203. 


310  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

les  jeunes  filles  chretiennes  bien  instruites.  L'imperatrice  notre 
souveraine,  a  envoye  d'Espagne  six  respectables  et  savantes  religieuses 
pour  clever  ces  jeunes  filles." 

Direct  references:  (  MEUSEL,  Bibliothcca  Historica,  Vol.  i,  Part  I,  page  98. 

-j   SWERTIUS,  dthcnte  Belvicee.  — . 

1 

I  TROMEL,  No.  8. 

Bibliothcca  Barloiviana,  — . 
Nijhoff  Catalogue,  No.  84,  7. 

IO7.    BORDONE  (B.)— Within  a  wide  ornamented  border: 

ISOLARIO   ||  DI     BENEDETTO      BORDONE  || 

Nel  qual  fi.  ragiona  di  tutte  1'Ifole  del 
mon/ 1|  do,  con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  mo- 
derni,  ||  hiftorie,  fauole,  &  modi  del  loro 
vi||uere,  &  in  qual  parte  del  ma||re  ftanno 
&  in  qual  pa  ||  rallelo  &  clima  ||  giaciono.  || 
Con  la  gionta  del  Monte  del  Oro  ||  noua- 
mente  ritrouato.  ||  CON  IL  BREVE  DEL  PAPA.  || 
Et  gratia  &  priuilegio  della  Illuftrifli  ||  ma 
Signoria  di  Venetia  co/ 1|  me  in  quelli  ap- 
pare.  ||  A  ||MDXXXIIII.  || 

Colophon  : 

Impreffe  in  Venegia  per  Nicolo  d'Arif- 
totile,  detto  Zoppino,  nel  mefe  ||  di  Giugno, 
del.  M.D.XXXIIII.  || 

*J|C*  Folio,   title    one    leaf  +  nine   preliminary    leaves,  containing 
three  double  maps  -|-  seventy-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

On  page  10  there  is  a  plan  of  the  city  of  Mexico 
before  the  conquest. 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annalcs  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  VIII,  page  541. 
-j    CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  Curieusc,'VoL  v,  page  91. 
i    HAYM,  Biblioteca  Italiana,  Vol.  iv,  page  103. 
Bibliotheca  Brow/liana,  page  18,  No.  61. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  31 1 

I  8  8.     HUTTICH-GRYNAEUS-HERR— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  C  34. 

2>ie9tett)itt)eltl>ef 
i  ten  itttnb 

Ijieljcr  nllcu  Wtiuclt&cidjrtjbcrn  unlichtut  || 
Snngft  aljer  tun  ben  ^ortngalefem  nnnb  .gityanU 
ern  im  9tieber-||genglidjen  SUteer  Ijerfnnben.  ^amfct  ben 
fttten  unb  gedrcndjen  ber  intuuucn  ben  j|  bolder.  sHud) 
tua§  ©ntter  aber  SSaren  man  fcety  inen  fnnbenmnb  inn|| 
nnfere  Sanbt  (iradjt  ^aa.  XoOcij  finbt  man  and)  fjtc  ben 
nrf^rnng  nnb  ||  att^erlnmmen  ber  gnrnemfiften  ©toaltig- 
ften  Bolder  ber  TO- 1|  fcefanten  ^cit  a(0  bo  feinb  bie 
Sartarn  i  SWofconiten  1 1|  fftenffen  ||  ^renffen  i  §nngern  i 
3i"djittfcn.  etc.  ||  naa)  anjeijgnng  nnb  innfjalt  biff  nmli- 1| 
gementen  dlatg.  || 

Pignette : 

($ebrntft  ^n  3trajDnrg  burd)  Weorgen  iBlrirfjcr  ||  don 
VHuDla  am  bicrijcljcnben  tag  beg  9Jlar$eng.    ^(u.  iil.ZD. 


*„.*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -\-  five  unnumbered  preliminary  leaves  -f- 
two  hundred  numbered  leaves  (last  through  mistake  numbered 
242) ;  printer's  mark  on  verso  of  the  last.  Two  columns, 
very  small  black  letter  ;  no  map. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

German   translation    by   Michel    Herr   of  Huttich's 
Novus  Orbis  (No.  170). 

Travels  of  Columbus,  Pages  28-37. 

"       "  Vespuccius,     "     41-45,  49-57. 

"  First  edition"  (KLOss1.) 

1  Catalogue,  page    312,  No.  4389,  de-     merous  marginal  notes,   very  neatly  writ- 
scribes    "  Melancthon's    copy,  with    nu-     ten." 


312  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Direct  rcfcrcni.es :  (  Catal.  Biblioth.  Bunav.t  Vol.  n,  page  44. 

Catal.  Biblioth.  TAcrcsiana,  Vol.  in,  page  1 66. 

Bibliotheca  Grcrruilliana,  page  498. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page   18,  No.  62. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2018. 

RICH,  No.  9. 

TERNAUX,  No.  45. 

TROMEL,  No.  7. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  132. 


189.     V ADI  AN  (JOACH)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

EPITOME  ||  TRIVM  TERRAE  PARTIUM  ASIAE, 

AFRICAE  ET  EVROPAE  coMPENDiARiAM  LO-  ||  corum  defcriptioncm  con- 
tinens  prascipu  autem  ||  quorum  in  A6lis  Lucas,  paflim  autem 
Euan-  ||  geliftae  &  Apoftoli  meminere.  ||  CVM  ADDITO  IN  FRONTE 
LIBRI  ELENCHO  ||  regionum,  urbium,  amnium,  infularu,  quorum 
No  ||  uo  teftamento  fit  mentio,  quo  expeditius  pius  Lector  quae 
uelit,  meminere  queat.  ||  PER  IOACHIMVM  VADIANVM  MEDICVM.  || 

TIGVRI,  APVD  CHRISTOPHORVM  ||  FROSCH,  MENSE  SEPTEMB. 
ANNO  ||  M.D.XXXIIII.  || 

*„.*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  -f-  eight  preliminary  pages,  +  index  in 
thirty  pages  -j-  two  hundred  and  seventy-three  numbered  pages  for 
text.  Mappamund,  with  the  word  AMERICA  inscribed. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Joachim  Vadianus,  or  von  Watte,  was  born  of  an 
aristocratic  family  at  St.  Gall  in  Switzerland,  Nov.  29th, 
1484*.  In  our  short  sketch  of  this  honest  and  learned 
man  (supra,  page  161),  we  forgot  to  state  that  after 
having  been  a  great  duelist  in  his  youth,  he  turned  his 
attention  towards  the  sciences,  and  soon  acquired  great 
reputation,  not  only  as  a  theologian,  a  geographer,  a 
mathematician  and  a  physician,  but  also  as  a  poet,  for 
he  received  the  laurel  wreath  which  the  Emperor  was 
wont  to  award  to  the  greatest  poetical  genius  in  his 
dominions3.  We  describe,  infra,  another  work  of  Va 
dianus,  which  contains  passages  bearing  on  the  subject 
before  us. 


8  NICERON,  Memoira,  Vol.  xxxvil,  p.iy.          3  TEISSIER,  Eloges,  Vol.  i,  p.  42. 


Bibliot  heca  Americana.  313 

Panzer'  describes  what  would  seem  two  editions  of 
the  above,  both  published  in  1534,  one  in  8vo,  the  other . 
in  folio ;   yet  the  title  of  the  8vo  is  the  only  one  which 
corresponds  entirely  to  our  folio.     We  describe  (infra) 
an  8vo  edition,  but  it  is  dated  Antwerp,  1535,  instead 
of  Zurich,  1534.     Draudius4  cites  another  8vo  edition, 
also  printed  at  Antwerp,  and  in  1548,  with  additions. 

See  cap.  INSVLAE  OCEANI  PRECIPVAE,  on  page  267. 

Direct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  page   384  (contains 
•I        also  valuable  details  concerning  Froschover  and  his  publications.) 
I    Indices  Libr.  Prohib.  (Madrid,  fol.,  1667),  page  557. 
Catal.  Bibliot.  Buna-v.,  Vol.  II,  page  31. 
NAPIONE,  Del  Primo  Scopritore,  page  78. 
Bibliot  heca  Heberiana,  Part  V,  No.  5388. 

IQO.     PETER  MARTTR  &  O^IEDO— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

LIBRO    PRIMO  ||  DELLA    HISTO  ||  RIA  DE 
L'lN  II  DIE  OC  II  CIDEN  II  TALI  II  4  II 


of  the  same  : 

SVMMARIO  DE  LA  GENERALE  ||HISTO- 
RIA  DE  L'INDIE  OCCI-||DENTALI  CAVATO 
DA  LI-IIBRI  SCRITTI  DAL  SI-||GNOR  DON 
PIETRO  |  MARTYRE  DEL  CONSI  ||  GLIO 
DELLA  MAESTA||DE  L'IMPERADORE,||  ET 
DA  MOLTE  ||  ALTRE  PAR-  ||  TICVLA-  ||  RI 
RELA-HTIONI.il  ^11 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf  of  the  second  part : 

LIBRO  SECOND  DO  DELLE  IN  ||  DIE  OC  || 
CIDEN  ||  TALI  ||  £  ||  MDXXXIIII.  ||  Con  gratia  & 

priuilegio.  ||* 


3  Annales    Typogr.,  Vol.  vin,   p.    313,  His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  and  from  many 
Nos.  62  and  63.  other  private  accounts. 

4  Bibliotheca  Classica,  p.  786.  Second  book  of  the  West  Indies,  1534, 
*  Anglice :  First  book  of  the  history  of  with  grace  and  privilege. 

the  West  Indies.  Summary  of  the  General  and  Natural 

Summary  of  the  general  history  of  the  History  of  West  India,  composed  by  Gon- 

West  Indies,  taken  from  the  work  written  zalvo,  Ferdinand  de  Oviedo,  alias  de  Val- 

by  Don  Peter   Martyr,  of  the  Council  of  des,  a   native   of  the   country  of  Madrid, 

4° 


314  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

^  ^  4~*  Verso  of  the  same  : 

SVMMARIO  DE  LA||NATVRALE  ET  GEN- 
ERAL  HISTO||ria  de  1'Indie  occidental!,  compofta 
da  Gonzalo  ferdi- 1|  nando  del  Ouiedo,  altrimenti  di 
valde,  natio  de  ||  la  terra  di  Madril  :  habitatore  & 
rettore  de  ||  la  citta  di  fanta  Maria  antica  del  Darien,  || 
in  terra  ferma  de  1'indie :  il  qual  fu  riue  ||  duto  &  cor- 
retto  per  ordine  de  la  Maefta  del  Imperadore,  pelo 
fuo  ||  real  configlio,  de  le  dette  In  ||  die.  &  tradotto  di 
lingua  caftigliana  in  Italia-  ||  na.  Co  priuilegio  ||  de  la 
IlluftrifT.  ||  Signoria  di  Vinegia,  ||  per  ani  XX.  || 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf  of  the  third  part : 

LIBRO  VLTIMO  DEL  SVMM A  ||  RIO 
DELLE|  INDIE  OCCIDEN  II  TALI  II  A  II 
MDXXXIIII.il 

Colophon  : 

C  In  Vinegia,  Del  mefe  d'Ottobre.||  MDXXXIIII.||t 


*^*  4to,  title  one  leaf  -\-  seventy-nine  numbered  leaves  -{-  one  blank 
+  one  title-leaf  -4/-  sixty-four  leaves  -{-  one  leaf  for  tavola  -{- 
one  leaf  giving  a  description  of  the  two  maps  +  one  title-leaf 
-\-  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves.  Text  in  Roman  characters. 
Between  the  first  and  second  parts,  a  folded  map  of  "  Lola 
Spagnvola."  On  verso  of  fol.  48,  recto  of  49,  and  verso  of 
52  in  part  second,  large  woodcuts.  Finally  a  very  large  map 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : 

inhabitant  and  governor  of  the  old  city  of  gli   eruditi  fanno   seguire   la  storia  del  P. 

Santa-Maria  del  Darien,  on  the  mainland  Giuseppe  di  S.  Teresa  yui  sotto  riferita." 

of  the    Indies;   revised    and    corrected   by  *"  Au  nombre  des trouvailles  importances  sur  les 

order  of  His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  through  Premi"«  amices  de  la  decouverte  des  terres  ame- 

,.                            J.      '  .    ,           .r         '             *>  ncaines,  il  faut  placer  sans  hesitation  ceile  qui  a  ete 

his  Royal  council  or  the  said   Indies,   and  faite  il  y  a  peude  temps  a  la  Bibliotheque  Imperiale 

translated   from   the  Spanish   into   Italian,  de  Paris  et  que  j'ai  ete  le  premier  a  signaler.    Jc 

with  the  privilege  of  the  Illustrious  Seig-  *?ux  Parle.r  ™  d? 'a .Precleuse  carte  du  r?,resil  e' 

PJr-e  d  une  partie  de  1  Afnque,  construue  en  [Octobrel 

mory  of  Venice  for  twenty  years.  i5J4,  par  un  Portugais  portant  le  nom  de  UA.SPARD 

Last    book    of   the    summary    of   West  VIBIGAS.     Mr.  b  Capitaine  de  fregate  Mouchez 

India     IC74.  ^u'  a  ^[^  c^arg^  Par  'a  gouveniement  franc;ais  de 

'  .   '^TT       ,  continuer    en    les   perfectionnant    les   travaux   de 

Venice,  October,  1534.  1'Amiral  Roussin,  a  ete  emerveille  comme  moi  de 

t  HAYM,    Biblioteca  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  p  1'exactitude  comparative    d'un    paieil    monument 

176,  No.  10,  ascribes  the  date  (probably  a  g^^K  J>"  2  Parl%du_re"e  da»srma  *' 

'.    '  (  .        cente  publication  des  Voyages  du  P.  Yves  d  Evreux 

mistake   by   the  printer)  of  1543   to  this     „„  Maranham  en  1615  Lp-445]-    Elle  nous  a  eti 
title,  to   which   he   adds  :   "  A  ouesto  libra      montree  par  le  savant  Mr.  Cortambert." 

(F.  DENIS). 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  315 

"M.D.XXXIIII.  Del  mese  di  Dicembre.  ||  La  carta  uniuersale 
della  terra  ferma  &  Isole  delle  Indie  occidetali,  cio  e  del  mon  ||  do 
nuouo  fatta  per  dichiaratione  delli  li-  ||  bri  delle  Indie,  cauata  da  due 
carte  da'  na-  ||  uicare  fatte  in  Sibilia  da  li  piloti  della  ||  Maiesta  Ce- 
sarea.  ||  Con  gratia  &  priuilegio  della  Illustrissi  ||  ma  Signoria  di  Vene- 
tiap'anni  XX."1  || 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Direct  references:  f  PANZER,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  VIII,  page  542,  No.  1773. 
-j    RICH,  No.  10. 
I    TERMAUX,  No.  43. 

STEVENS,  Historical  Nuggets,  Vol.  ir,  No.  1808. 
Libri  Catalogue  for  1859,  page  13,  No.  93. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  1  8,  No.  60. 


IQI.    ANONYMOUS—  Beginning  of  the  frst  leaf: 

LETERA  DE  LA  ||  nobil  cipta  :  noua- 
mente  ritrouata  alle  In-||die  con  li  cof- 
tumi  &  modi  del  fuo  Re  &||foi  populi  : 
Li  modi  del  fuo  adorare  con  la  ||  Bella 
vfanza  de  le  donne  loro  :  &  de  le  dua  || 
perfone  ermafrodite  donate  da  quel  Re 
al  ||  Capitano  de  larmata.  || 

In  fine  : 

EL  V.  S.  V.  Al  Suo.  D.  L.  S. 

Data  in  Peru  adi.  XXV.  de  Nouembre. 

Del,  MDXXXIIIL 

*£*  Octavo  for  shape,  four  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in  italics. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  is  evidently  a  modern  reprint,  to  which 
the  Historical  Nuggets'-  •  prefixes  the  query  whether  it 
might  not  have  been  printed  at  Milan  in  1830;  but  of 
the  original  of  this  plaquette,  we  can  find  no  traces. 

1  See  Mapoteca  Co/umbiana,  p.  z,  No.  6.         "  Vol.  II,  p.  4.67,  No,  1689. 


316  Bibliotheca  Americana.  ' 

1 534.  We  describe  (infra)  under  the  date  of  1535,  a  plaquette, 
similar  as  to  the  text,  but  which  is  only  a  fac-simile 
made  by  the  elder  Harris  from  an  original  in  the  British 
Museum.  The  latter  is  dated  "  Zhaual.  Adi.  xxv.  di 
Settembre.  M.D.XXXF."  Under  the  date  of  1539,  we 
describe  another,  but  evidently  an  original,  bearing  the 
date  (sine  loco]  of  "  xxx  di  Settembre.  M.D.XXXIX." 

As  to  the  substance  of  this  mysterious  Italian  pla 
quette,  we  can  only  cite  Ternaux3. 

"  Description  d'une  ville  que  1'auteur  nomme  Zhaval.  La  relation 
est  si  obscure  qu'on  ne  peut  deviner  dans  quelle  partie  de  I'Amerique 
1'auteur  la  place,  d'autant  plus  que  le  recit  parait  plein  d'exagerationV 

The  nearest  approach  to  such  a  name  we  could  find 
is  Zavalita,  a  settlement  of  the  province  of  Antioquia, 
in  the  Nuevo  Regno  de  Granada,  mentioned  in  Alcedo's 
Dictionary. 


MAXIMILLIAN  OF  TR.   &   PIGAFETTA-"  \\     Viag- 

gio    fatto  dagli    Spagnuoli    atorno    al  mondo.     Venife, 
1534  in  4to.  (non  1536  Jans  lieu)" 

(Livres  Curieuxs.) 

The  only  work  bearing  this  title  we  know  of  is  the 
translation  into  Italian  of  Maximillian  of  Transylvania's 
Letter  to  the  Abp.  of  Saltzburg  (Nos.  123  and  124), 
and  of  Pigafetta's  account  (No.  134),  both  describing 
Magellan's  voyage,  and  supposed  to  have  been  pub 
lished  at  Venice  in  1536  (infra).  The  above  is  the 
only  notice  which  we  could  find  of  an  Italian  version 
mentioning  the  locality. 


8  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  p.  9,  No.  42,.  several  large  editions,  and  we  know  that 

4  The  fact  that  the  plaquette  was  pub-  in    Italy,    in    the    sixteenth    century,    the 

lished  several  times  is  not  an  argument  in  demand   for  news   from    the    new   world, 

favor  of  the  authenticity  of  the   circum-  whether  real  or  imaginary,  remained  un- 

stances    related    therein.       The    "  Moon  abated  for  a  number  of  years, 
hoax,"  in  our  own  country,  went  through          6  Page  2,9,  No.  143. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  317 

ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  ^534* 

COPIA     DELLE    LETTERS     DEL' 
PREFETTO    DEL  ||  la    India   la   nuoua 
Spagna    detta,    alia    Cefarea    Maefta    re- 
fcritte.  || 

*./*  Sm.   410,   for   size,   sine  anno  aut  loco,  two   leaves ;    text   in 
Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Francisco  Pizarro,  the  most  cruel  of  those  rapacious 
adventurers  who  have  rendered  the  name  of  Spain  for 
ever  odious  throughout  the  southern  part  of  this  con 
tinent,  which  they  ravaged,  decimated  and  deluged  with 
blood,  was  born  near  Truxillo,  in  Spain,  toward  the 
years  1475  (Garcilasso  de  la  Vega^}^  1478  (Herrera*),  or 
1471  (Pizarro1  y  Orellana,  Prescott4),  and  was  killed  at 
Cuzco  in  Peru,  June  26th,  1541.  He  was  an  illegiti 
mate  child,  who  had  been  abandoned,  and  would  have 
perished,  had  he  not  been  nursed  by  a  sow5.  While  yet 
a  lad  he  looked  after  his  father's  swine,  or  served  with 


1  Historia  General  del  Peru,  trata  de  su  Madrid,  fol.,   1639.     (The  author  was   a 
dcscubrimiento  y  como  lo  ganaron  los  Espan-  grandson  of  Francisco  Pizarro 's  daughter.) 
oles,lasguerrasci-vilesque  Au-vo  entre  Pizar-          *  History  of  the  Conquest  of  Peru,  Vol.  I, 
rosy  Almagros  sobre  la  partija  de  la  tierra,  cap.  1 1. 

castigo  y  lt-vantamlento  de  tyranos,  y  otros  "  Primera  y  Secunda  parte  de  la  Historia 

succcsos  particulars  que  en  la  historia  se  con-  general  de  las  Indias,  con  todo  el  descubri- 

tienen,  escrito  for  el  Ynca  Garcilaso  de  la  mientoy  cosas  notables  que  han  acaccido  dende 

Vega;  Cordova,  fol.,  1617;  8  +  300  +  6  11.  que  se  ganaron  hasta  el  ano  de  1551,  con  la 

This  is  only  the  second  part.    The  first  is  :  conquista  de  Mexico  y  de  la  Nue-va  Espana  ; 

Primera  parte  de  los  Commentaries  Rcales,  Saragossa,  fol.,  by  A.  Millan,  1553  (nearly 

q-ve  tratan  del  origen  de  los  Yncas,  Reyes  all  notices  of  this  edition  state  "1552- 

q-ve  f-vcron  del  Per-v,  de  s-v  Idolatria,  Leyes  1553"),  122  +  140  11.,  map  (Biblieth. 

y  gouierno  en  pax  y  en  guerra  ;  de  sus  <vidas  Bro'wniana,  second  part,  No.  97)5  id., 

y  conquistas,y  de  todo  lo  que  fue  aquel  Im-  Medina  del  Campo,  fol.,  1553,  122  4-  139 

perio y  su  Rcpublica,  antes  que  los  Espagnoles  11.;  id.,  Saragossa,  fol.,  1554.  (The  first 

passaran  a  el;  Lisbon,  fol.,  1609  (coloph.  part  by  P.  Bernuz,  the  second,  by  Millan. 

dated  1608);  II  +264  11.  (Priv.  Libr.,  — Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.)  As  to  the  8vo 

N.  Y.  and  Provid.)  editions  published  at  Antwerp  by  Steelsio, 

2  Hist.    General,    Decad.     vi,    lib.    10,  Nucio   and  Belloro,  in   1554,  we   confide 
cap.  6.  their  description  to  the  patient  investiga- 

8  Varonct   Itlustres  del  Nuvvo    Mundo  ,•  tions  of  our  continuators. 


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him  in  the  Italian  wars.  The  story  is,  that  having  lost 
one  of  the  herd,  he  dared  not  return  home,  and  joined 
at  Seville  some  expedition  to  the  New  World.  Pizarro 
y  Orellana  states  that  he  served  under  Columbus.  We 
first  hear  of  him  in  connection  with  Ojeda's  expedition 
in  1510.  His  deeds  under  Pedro  Arias  and  with  Diego 
de  Almagro  (supra,  page  245)  have  been  related  by 
Xeres6  and  Augustin  de  Zarate7.  As  to  the  bloody 
expedition  which  commenced  in  January,  1531,  when  the 
piratical  flotilla  of  Francisco  Pizarro  sallied  forth  from 
the  Bay  of  Panama  to  carry  fire  and  sword  on  both  slopes 
of  the  Andes,  the  chief  historians  to  consult  are,  besides 
those  already  mentioned,  Pedro  de  Cie9a  de  Leon8, 


8  Verdadera  relacion  de  la  conquista  del 
Peru;  Seville,  fol.,  1534  (infra}}  id., 
Salamanca,  fol.  1547. 

7  Historia  del  descubrimiento  y  conquista 
del  Peru,  con  las  cosas  naturales  que  senalad- 
mente  alii  se  kalian,  y  los  successes  que  ha 
a-vido;  Antwerp,  I2mo,  1555,  8+273  ^-5 
id.,  Seville,  fol.,    1577,  4+117  +  3  11. 
(Priv.  Libr.,  Provid.) 

8  Parte  Primera  \\  Dela  chronica  del  Peru. 
£%uc  tracta  la  demarea-  ||  cion  de  fus  frouin- 
cias  :  la  description  dellas.    Las  \\fundaciones 
de  las  nueuas  ciudades.     Los  ritos  y  ||  cofium- 
bres  de  los  Indios.      TT  otras  cofas  eftranas  || 
dignas  defer  fabidas.      Fee  ha  for  Pedro  d' 
Cieija  ||  de  Leon  -vezino  de  Scuilla.  ||  1553.  || 
Colophon  :   ImpreJJ'a  en  Seuilla  en  cafa  de 
Marti  r.  |j  de  Montefdoca.      Acabofe  a  quinze 
de  \  Mar^o  de  mill  y  quinientos  y  [|  cinquenta 

y  ires  anos. 

***  Fol.,  10+  13411. 

— La  Chronica  \\  del  Perv,  N-ve-va-  \ 
mente  escrita,  for  ||  Pedro  de  Ciefa  de 
Leon,  ||  -vczino  de  Se  ||  uilla.  ||  En  An-vers  || 
en  cafa  de  Martin  Nucio,  \\  M.D.LIIII.  || 

V  8vo,  8  +  204  11. 

— Pane  Primera  ||  De  la  chro  ||  nica  del 
Peru  que  tra  \\  ta  de  la  demarcacion  de  sus 
frouincias,  la  descrifcion  ||  dellas,  las  fun- 
daciones  de  las  nueuas  ciudades,  los  ||  ritos  y 
costumbres  de  los  Indios,  y  otras  co  ||  sas 
estranas,  dignas  de  ser  sabidas  ||  Hecha  for 
Pedro  de  Cieca  ||  de  Leon,  vczino  ||  de  Se 
uilla.  \\  ....  En  An-vers  ||  Par  Juan  Bel- 
loro  a  la  ensena  del  ||  Salmon  .  1554. 


V  8vo,  8  +  285  +  9.     Map. 

— Primera  Parte  de  la  Chronica  del  Peru 
....  En  An-vers  en  casa  de  Juan  Steelsio, 
1554.  (Title  arranged  in  all  respects,  and 
collation  the  same,  as  Belloro's  edit.) 

The  first  three,  in  a  private  Libr.  Prov 
idence  ;  all  four  in  a  private  Libr.  New 
York. 

We  vouch  for  no  other  original  Spanish 
editions. 

This  valuable  historian  had  the  inten 
tion,  when  he  published  the  first  part  of 
his  History,  to  write  two  additional  parts, 
the  contents  of  several  books  of  which  he 
gives  in  the  original  edition.  LEON  PINELO 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  aware  of  the 
existence  of  the  remaining  parts,  since  he 
only  says  :  "  Si  acabara  otras  tres  partes, 
que  prometio,  fueran  de  mucha  estima- 
cion"  (Epitome,  p.  84).  BARCIA  adds  (Col. 
649)  "porque  la  primera  tiene,  i  deber 
tener  tanta,  como  pondera  el  P.  Melendezi 
Tesoros  Verdadcros  de  las  Indias,  lib.  3, 
caf.  8,  donde  dice,  que  aun  esta  no  se  halla 
en  el  Peru;"  while  ANTONIO  (Bibl.  H. 
Nova,  Vol.  11,  p.  184)  only  expresses  his 
regrets.  ROBERTSON  considered  these  MS. 
parts  as  lost,  while  PRESCOTT  \Hist.  of  the 
Conq.  of  Peru,  Vol.  II,  p.  328)  thought 
they  had  never  been  written.  RICH  (Bibl. 
America  fetus,  p.  8,  No.  24)  was  the  first 
to  state  that  "The  n.  and  in.  parts  in 
MSS.  were  seen  in  Madrid  some  years  ago, 
but  it  is  not  known  what  became  of  them." 
When  this  most  honest  and  trustworthy 


Eibllotheca  Americana. 

Levinius  Apollonius9,  Diego  Fernandez10,  Benzoni", 
Pedro  Pizarro1*,  Miguel  Cavello  Balboa13,  Fernando 
Montesinos14,  J.  de  Arriaga15,  Jose  de  Acosta16,  Juan 
de  Velasco17,  the  poem  of  Ercilla18,  the  two  valuable 
accounts  in  Ramusio19  so  often  quoted,  the  books  XLVI 
and  XLVII  in  Oviedo20,  and  the  third  and  fourth  Decades 


*534- 


bibliopole  offered  for  sale  the  collection  of 
MSS.,  comprising  the  copies  and  originals 
collected  by  Antonio  de  Uguina  and  Lord 
Kingsborough,  the  third  part  of  Cie9a's 
work  was  found  among  them,  and  pur 
chased  by  a  bibliophile  in  this  city,  who 
has  it  still  in  his  possession.  This  third 
part  bears  the  following  title  : 

Terccro  libra  de  las  Gucrras  Civile:  del 
Peru  el  qual  se  llama  la  gucrra  de  Quito. 
Hccho  for  Pedro  de  Cicza  de  Leon  :  Coro- 
nista  de  las  Indias. 

Folio,  424  leaves. 

As  to  the  second  part,  it  is  yet  missing. 
What  is  called  in  the  Italian  version 
(Venice,  8vo,  1 564-1 566)1,0  Seconda  pane 
and  la  Terza  parte,  is  only  a  translation 
from  GOMARA. 

*  de  Peruuite,  Regionis,  inter  Noui  orbis 
prouincias  cclcbcrrimte,  inuentione  :  &  rebus 
in  eadem  gestis,  Libri  V.  Ad  lacob-vm  Cla- 
rovtivm  Maldeghemmae  ac  Pittemiac  Domi- 
num.  Breuis,  exactaque  Noui  Orbis,  & 
Peruuia  regionis  chorographia ;  Antwerp, 
8vo,  1566  (generally  considered  the  first 
edition,  but  RICH  (No.  44)  and  TERNAUX 
(No.  97),  mention  a  izmo  edition  of 
1565).  The  edition  of  156713  only  the 
present  with  a  new  title-page. 

10  Primeray  Segunda  parte,  de  la  historia 
del  Peru.      Contiene  la  primera,  lo  succedido 
en  la  Nueva  Espana  y  en  el  Peru,  sobre  la 
cxecucion  de  las  nue-ver  leyes  ;  y  el  allana- 
miento,  y   castigo,    que    Aizo    el    Presidente 
Gasca,  de   Goncalo  Pi^arro  y  sus  sequaces. 
La  Segunda  contiene  la  tyranniay  al^amicnta 
de  los  contreros  y  don  Sebastian  de   Castillo, 
&c.;  Seville,  fol.,  1571. 

11  La   Historia  del  Mondo  N-vo-vo.      La 
qval  tratta  delT  hole  &  Mari  nuouamente 
ritrouati,  £f  delle  nuoua  Citta  da  lui  proprio 
•vedute,  per  acqua  &  per  terra  in  quattordeci 
anni ;  Venice,  8vo,  1565;  /</.,  8vo,  1572. 

la  Relacion  del  desc ubrimiento  y  conquista 
de  los  Reynos  del  Peru  y  del  Go-vierno  y 
harden  que  los  Naturales  tenian  y  tessoros 


que  en  ellos  se  hallaron  y  de  las  demas  cosas 
que  en  el  an  subcedido  hasta  el  dia  de  sufecha. 
Heche  par  Pedro  Pifarro  conquistador  y  pot- 
lador  destos  die  has  Reynos  y  "vccino  de  la 
ciudad  de  Areguipa,  Ano  1571.  MS. 
Private  Libr.,  Boston.  We  think  that  it 
has  been  printed  in  the  Navarrete-Salva- 
Sainz  Coleccion  de  documentos. 

13  Histoire  du  Perou,  in  TERNAUX'  Re- 
cueil ;  Paris,  1840. 

14  Memoires  sur  fancien  Perou,  in  TER 
NAUX,  loc.  cit.     Our  readers  are  aware  that 
there  are  two  works  by  this  author,  viz. : 
Memorias   Antiguas   Historiales    del    Peru, 
and  the  Anales.     TERNAUX  has  given  only 
the  former.     There  is  a  transcript  of  both, 
in  the  original  Spanish,  in  a  private  library, 
Boston. 

14  Extirpacion  de  la  idolatria  de  los  Indies 
del  Peru  y  ntedios  para  la  conversion  de  ellos  ; 
Lima,  4:0.  1621. 

18  Historia  natural  y  moral  de  las  Indias  ; 
Seville,  410,  1590.  (See  supra,  p.  240, 
note  10. 

17  Histoire  du  Royaume  de  Quito,  in  TER- 
NAUX'S  Recueil.     A  comparatively  modern 
work,  but  written  on  the  authority  of  valu 
able  manuscript  sources,  such  as  ALFONSO 
PALOMINO,  FR.  MARCO  DE  NIZZA,  ALONZO 
DE  MONTENEGRO,  BRAVO  DE  SARAVIA,  &c. 

18  La    Araucana ;    Madrid,   8vo,    1569 
(first  part);   id.,  1578   (second   part);   id., 
1590  (third  part);   Salamanca,  8vo,  1597 
(fourth  and  fifth  parts). 

19  Di    "vn    capitano    Spagnuolo   Relatione 
del  discoprimiento    &    conquista   del  Peru, 

fatta    da    Francisco   Pizzarro    @"   da   Her- 
nando  Pixzarro  sufratello. 

— Di  "vn  Secretaire  di  Francisco  P/ss- 
xarro,  Relatione  dela  conquista  fatta  della 
prouincia  del  Peru,  delta  dipdi  la  Nuoua 
Castiglia,  con  la  descrittione  della  gran  Citta 
del  CuscAo.  In  the  Raccolta,  Vol.  in, 
fol.  37 1,  ^. 

20  Historia   General,  only  in  Vol.  IV  of 
the  Madrid  edition,  fol.,  1855. 


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I534*    °^  Herrera.     The  manuscript  sources",   however,  still 
-  present  a  mass  of  valuable  materials,  which  no  student 
of  the  history  of  Peru  should  overlook. 

Independently  of  the  above-mentioned  printed  works, 
there  are  several  small  volumes,  which  have  greatly  per 
plexed  bibliographers.  The  first  is  a  letter  from  some 
anonymous  official,  directed  to  Charles  V,  and  giving 
the  first  account  of  the  battle  in  which  Atahualpa  was 
made  prisoner  by  Pizarro.  This  was  written  originally 


*'  The  following  are  preserved  in  a 
private  library,  in  New  York  : 

— M.  C.  BALBOA,  Miscellanea  Antar- 
tica,  400  11. 

— MONTESINOS,  Anales  del  Peru,  and 
Memorias,  267  11. 

— M.  DE  PAZ,  Dialogo  sobre  los  sucesos 
varios  acaccidos  en  este  Reyno  del  Peru. 

— NICHOLAS  DE  ALBERINO,  Verdadera 
y  copiosa  relacion  de  todo  lo  nuevamente 
sucedido  en  los  reynos  y  provincias  del  Peru 
dende  la  ida  a  ellos  del  Virrey  Blasco  Nunez 
Vela  hasta  el  desbarato  y  muerte  de  Go.i- 
zalo  Pizarro.  (Seville,  1549),  80  11. 
"  Copied  from  a  MS.  in  the  Imperial  Libr., 
Paris.  Appears  to  have  been  printed,  but 
no  copy  is  known." — RICH'S  annotation. 

— DE  LA  GASCA,  Cartas  y  papeles  sobre 
los  asuntos  del  Peru.  114  11. 

— VALVERDE  (the  bloody  Bishop),  Re 
lacion  del  Peru,  19  11. ;  id.,  Carta  al  Emp. 
Carlos  V.  sobre  las  revueltas  del  Peru. 
April  2,  1539.  43  11. 

— Replica  de  Diego  Fernandez  a  las 
objectiones  puestas  a  su  Historia  por  el  lie. 
Santillan,  40  11. 

— About  700  leaves  of  Papeles  farios, 
extending  from  152,4  to  1556. 

In  a  private  library,  Boston  : 

— Relacion  de  los  primeros  descubrimi- 
entos  de  Francisco  Pizarro  y  Diego  de  Al- 
magro,  sacada  de  la  Bib.  Imp.  de  Viena. 
La  forma  que  en  estos  Reynos  del  Piru  de 
Fray  Francisco  de  Morales  al  Rey.  Carta 
de  Gabriel  de  Rojas  a  Don  Antonio  de 
Mendoza  (Respuestas  al  instruccion  del 
Rey),  12  de  diciembre,  1561.  Relacion 
sumaria  de  la  entrada  de  los  Espanolos  en 
el  Peru  hasta  que  llego  el  Licenciado  Baca 
de  Castro :  Del  P.  Neharro.  Conquista  i 
Poblacion  del  Piru.  Anon.  Official  ac 


count,  by  Pedro  Sanchez,  of  the  division  of 
gold  and  silver  at  Caxamalca,  June,  1533. 
Extract  from  a' MS.  of  Caravantes,  relat 
ing  to  burial  of  Pizarro,  &c.  Another 
extract,  containing  an  account  of  Pedro 
de  la  Gasca.  Carta  de  F.  Pizarro  a  Juan 
de  Samano,  8  de  junio,  1533.  Carta  de 
Bena/cazar,  como  poblo  y  se  concerto  con 
Alvarado.  Carta  de  Pedro  de  Al-varado  al 
Emperador,  15  de  enero,  1535.  Breve 
relacion  del  viage  de  Alvarado.  Capitula- 
cion  entre  Pizarro  y  Almago  en  el  Cuzco, 
12  de  junio  de  1535.  Informacion  secreta 
en  los  Reyes  20  agosto  de  35  por  el  obispo 
Berlanga  para  saber  como  ha  sido  tratada 
la  hacienda  real.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pi 
zarro  a  Juan  Vazquez  de  Molina,  29  de 
junio,  1535.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro 
al  Emperador,  i  de  enero,  1535.  Carta 
de  Almagro  al  Emperador,  i  de  enero, 
1535.  Razon  de  las  partidas  de  oro,  plata 
i  piedras  que  se  fundieron,  marcaron  i  quin- 
taron  en  la  postrera  fundicion  del  Cuzco 
desde  20  de  mayo  de  35  hasta  31  de  Julio 
de  id.  Carta  de  Diego  de  Almagro  al  Em 
perador,  15  de  octubre,  1534.  Twelve 
doubts  or  queries  (parece  papel  de  Fr.  Bar- 
tolom'e  de  las  Casas.  Acto  de  la  fundacion 
del  Cuzco  hecha  por  Francisco  Pizarro. 
Carta  de  la  Justicia  y  Regimiento  de  la 
ciudad  de  Xauja,  20  de  Julio  de  1534. 
Relacion  de  Francisco  Pizarro  y  otros, 
desde  Xauxa,  25  de  mayo  de  1534.  Carta 
de  Diego  de  Almagro  al  Emperador,  8  de 
mayo,  1534.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro 
a  D.  Pedro  de  Alvarado,  29  de  Julio,  1536. 
Extractos  sacados  por  Mufioz.  Carta  de 
Suarez  de  Car-vajal  al  Emperador,  3  de 
noviembre,  1539.  Carta  del  Licenciado 
de  la  Gama  al  Emperador,  10  de  marzo, 
1539.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro  al  Em- 


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in  Spanish,  and  in  all  probability  printed ;  but  it  has,  I  534* 
thus  far,  eluded  the  vigilant  eyes  of  bibliographers.  It  ——---—-- 
is  known  through  what  seems  to  us  abridged  versions 
in  three  foreign  languages.  One  in  the  Italian — it  is 
the  present  No.  193.  We  place  it  first,  because  the 
German  version  (infra,  No.  195),  which  is  dated  Feb 
ruary,  1534,  states  that  it  was  made  "  aus  Hispanien 
und  Italien."  After  the  Italian  we  have  the  German 
translation,  or  rather  abridged  paraphrase,  just  men 
tioned.  We  then  describe  (infra,  No.  196)  a  French 
version,  also  dated  1534,  but  which  numbers  seven 
leaves.  Do  these  seven  leaves  imply  some  extra  mat 
ter,  or  a  different  account  altogether  ? 

Direct  references:  j  Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  I,  No.  1961. 
(  Bibliotheca  Grenvi/Iiana,  page  537. 


perador,  28  de  febrero,  1539.  Cartas  de 
Felipe  Gutierrez  al  Emperador,  10  de  feb., 
1539,  y  30  de  diciembre,  1540.  Cartas 
de  Manuel  de  Espinar  al  Emperador,  6  de 
enero,  y  30  de  mayo,  1539.  Carta  de 
Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  0-vicdo  al  Empera 
dor,  25  Je  octubre,  1537.  Carta  de  Fran 
cisco  Pizarro  al  Obispo  de  la  Tierra  firme, 
28  de  agosto,  1537.  Relacion  de  Manuel 
de  Espinar.  Declaracion  con  juramento 
de  San  Juan  de  Uscategui,  Valladolid,  3 
de  agosto  de  1543.  Carta  de  la  Justicia  y 
Regimiento  de  la  Ciudad  los  Reyes  al  Au 
diencia  de  Panama,  14  de  Julio  de  1541. 
Carta  de  D.  Diego  de  Almagro  a  la  Real 
Audiencia  de  Panama,  14  de  Julio,  1541. 
Carta  del  Maestre  Martin  de  Arauco,  15 
de  julio,  1541.  Carta  de  Almagro  al  Au 
diencia,  8  de  nov.  1541.  Carta  de  Fr. 
Vicente  de  Valverdc,  obispo  del  Cuzco,  a  la 
Audiencia  de  Panama,  II  de  nov.  1541. 
Relacion  de  Valdi-via  a  S.  M.  15  de  oct. 
1550.  Carta  del  obispo,  Fr.  Vicente  Val- 
•vcrdc,  al  Emperador,  20  de  marzo,  1539. 
Relacion  (escrita  por  Pedro  Sarmicnto)  del 
viage  que  hizo  el  magnifico  senor  capitan 
Jorge  Robledo  i  de  las  dos  cibdades  quel 
dicho  poblo  e  fundo  en  la  provincias  de 
Ancerma  y  Quinvaya,  &c.  Relacion  (escrita 
por  yuan  Bautista  Sardela]  de  lo  que  sus- 
cedio  al  mag.  S.  capitan  Jorge  Robledo  en 
el  descobrimientu  que  hizo  de  las  provincias 


de  Antiochia  e  cibdad  que  en  ellas  fundo. 
Descripcion  de  los  pueblos  que  hay  al  rede- 
dor  de  la  cibdad  de  Santana  de  Indies. 
Carta  de  Pedro  de  Valdi-via  al  Emperador, 
4  de  set.  1545.  Dicho  del  capitan  Fran 
cisco  de  Car-vajal  sobre  la  pregunta  38  de  la 
informacion  hecha  en  el  Cuzco  en  1543 
a  favor  de  Vaca  de  Castro.  Carta  de  Fran 
cisco  de  Barrionue-uo  y  otros  al  Emperador, 
2.5  de  junio,  1542.  Carta  de  Be/alcazar 
al  Emperador,  20  de  set.  1542.  Carta  de 
Hernando  de  Sil-va  y  otros  al  Emperador, 
24  de  set.  1542.  Carta  de  Vintura  Beltran 
al  Emperador.  8  de  oct.  1542,.  Extractos 
sacados  por  Munoz.  Relacion  de  las  cosas 
que  S.  M.  deve  proveer  para  los  reynos  del 
Peru,  embiada  desde  los  Reyes  a  la  corte 
por  el  Licenciado  Martel  Santoyo,  1542. 
Capitulacion  con  Orellana.  Extractos  sa 
cados  por  Munoz  de  un  papel  de  Augustin 
de  Zarate.  Relacion  de  lo  que  ha  sucedido 
despues  de  la  prision  del  Virrei  Blasco 
Nunez  Vela  en  aquellos  reinos  hasta  que 
nos  partimos  del  puerto  del  Nombre  de 
Dios,  que  fue  a  27  de  marzo  deste  ano  de 
1545.  Carta  de  Be/alcazar  al  Emperador, 
20  de  diciembre,  1 544.  Relacion  de  lo  que 
en  sustancia  escrivio  el  Licenciado  Gasca 
cerca  de  lo  sucedido  en  el  Peru  en  el  des- 
barata  de  Gonzalo  Pizarro  i  de  los  que  le 
seguian.  Carta  de  Gonzalo  Pizarro  a  Pedro 
de  Valdivia,  30  de  oct.  1 546.  Montcsinos, 


41 


3  22  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1534..     I  94.    HONTER  (J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

DIONYSII  ||  APHRIDE  TOTIVS  OR/  ||  bis 
fitu,  Antonio  Becharia  Veronenfi.  inter-  || 
prete,  confumatiffimum  opus.  ||  IOANNIS 
PR^TEREA  ||  Honteri  Coroneniis  de  Cof- 
mographiae  ||  rudimentis  libri  duo.  ||  Ccelo- 
rum  partes,  ftellas  cum  flatibus  amnes,  || 
Regnacg  cum  populis,  parue  libelle  tenes.|| 

EXCVDEBAT    HENRICVS  ||  PETRVS    BASILEAE.  || 
Colophon  : 

BASILEAE  EX  AEDIBVS  ||  HENRICI  PETRI.  MEN  || 
SE  AVGVSTO,  ||  ANNO  ||  M.D.XXXIIII.  || 

*„.*  410,  title  one  leaf  -f-  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  ninety-nine 
numbered  pages,  +  two  blank  leaves,  with  the  printer's  device 
on  verso  of  the  last. 

(British  Museum.) 

There  is  nothing  on  America  in  the  Dionysius,  not 
even  the  slight  allusion  contained  in  the  address  in 
the  edition  of  1518  (No.  93);  but  in  Honter's  work, 
which  commences  on  page  65  with  a  separate  title, 
the  reader  may  consult  page  91,  the  chapter:  NOMIN 

INSVLARVM  OCEANI  ET   MARIS.       In  OCClduO  DoTCadeS,  H.6S- 


Anales  del  Peru,  and  Memorias  antiguas  lacion  del  suceso  de  la  venida  del   tirano 

historiales  del  Peru.     Relacion  de  la  suce-  Chino  sobre  este   campo  y  de   las   demas 

eion  y  govierno  de  los  Ingas  Senores  natu-  cosas  sucedidas  a  cerca  de  ello.     Una  rela- 

rales  que  fueron  de  las  provincias  del  Peru  cion  de  lo  sucedido  en  Indias  con  Limahon 

y  otras  cosas  tocantes  a  aquel  reyno  por  el  Corsario  Chino.     Compendio  historial  del 

illmo.     Senor  Don  Juan  Sarmiento,  Pre-  estado  de  los  Indies  del  Peru,  con  mucha 

sidente  del  Consejo  Real  de  Indias.      In-  doctrina  y  cosas  notables  de  ritos,  costum- 

struccion  del  Inga  D.  Diego  de  Castro  Titu-  bres  e  inclinaciones  que  tienen,  nuevamente 

cussi    lupangui    para    el    Licenciado    Lope  compuesto  por  Lope  de  Atlenza.     Dos  Re- 

Garcia  de   Castro.      Suma  y  narracion  de  laciones  dirigidas  al  Virrey  del  Peru,  Don 

los    Ingas  que   los  Indios  llamaron  Capac  Andres     Hurtado    de     Mendoza,    1561    y 

cuna,  &c.,  traducido  por  Juan  de  Bctanzos.  1571.     Relacion  del  descubrimiento  y  con- 

Relacion  brebe  de  la  Conquista  de  la  Nueva  quista  del  Peru,  escrita  por  uno  de  los  Con- 

Espana,  por  Fr.  Francisco  de  Agullar.    Re-  quistadores. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  323 

perides,  Fortunata,  America,  P  arias,  IsabeLa,  Spagnolla  6? 
Gades. 

John  Honter  was  a  Cronstadt1  theologian,  who  intro 
duced  Reformation  into  Poland2.  He  died  in  1549. 
We  are  unable  to  state  whether  the  above  elementary 
cosmography  differs  from  the  Rudimentorum  Cosmograph- 
icorum,  which  we  notice,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1548. 

Direct  references:  (  Bibliotheca  TAottiana,  Vol.  iv,  page  105. 

(  PANZER,  Annalu  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  406,  No.  933. 

.     ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


§ifoattiett  mtb||3taUett.||9Jtettfe  gelmwrio.  111534-  II 

*„,*  Sm.  410,  sine  loco  ;  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  account  is  essentially  the  same  as  the  Copia  delle 
Lettere  (No.  193),  but  more  succinct. 

"  Gazette  d'une  excessive  rarete  et  qui  parait  avoir  etc  imprimee 
a  Nuremberg.  Elle  contient  la  premiere  nouvelle  de  la  d'ecouverte  du 
Perou,  et  est  restee  inconnue  a  tous  les  bibliographes  que  nous  avons 
pu  consulter.  On  y  annonce  que  le  gouverneur  de  Panumya  (Panama) 
dans  1'Inde  a  ecrit  a  sa  majeste  (1'empereur  Charles  V.)  qu'il  est 
arrive  un  navire  du  Perou  avec  une  lettre  du  Regent  Francisco  Pis- 
cario  (Pizarro)  annon^ant  qu'il  a  debarque  et  qu'il  s'est  empare  du 
pays.  Qu'  avec  zoo  Espagnols  (infanterie  et  cavalerie)  il  s'etait  em- 
barque,  et  qu'il  etait  arrive  chez  un  grand  seigneur  appele  Cassiko, 
qu'ii  avait  refuse  la  paix  et  1'avait  attaque,  que  les  Espagno'jS  avaient 
ete  victorieux  et  qu'ils  s'etaient  empares  de  5000  castillans  (pieces 
d'or)  et  de  20,000  marcs  d'argent  ....  qu'ils  ont  tire  deux  millions 
d'or  du  dit  Cassiko,  etc.,  etc." 

(LlBRI.) 

1  Vossius,  De  Natura  Artium,  live  de  410,  1711;  and  STARAWOLSKI,  Serif  tor. 

Mathcsi,  Lib.  nr,  p.  202.  polonicorum  hecatontas  ;  Venice,  4to,  1627; 

*  JOCHER,  Allgem.  Gelhert.  Lexic.,  Vol.  which,  as  we  have  since  ascertained,  con- 

II,  p.  1695,  on  the  authority  of  CZVIT-  tains,  also,  details  concerning  DSL  STOB- 

TINGER,  Specimen  Hungar.  Lit.  ;  Leipzig,  NICZA  (supra,  Nos.  69  and  95). 


j  24  Eibllotheca  Americana. 

I534*      I9^'     ANONYMOUS—  Within  a  border: 

ccrtat 


tot 


1  5  3  4- 

Then   woodcut1   representing   cherubs    supporting   a    shield  ;    and 
below  : 


leg  bentr  a  Hgon  cijes  jfraeogs  ||  Jufte  treuat 
fioftre  irame  II  tre  Otonfort,  II 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Ontfuguent  ies  n  letter  to  jfrancflgs  ^t^arro  || 
^uerneuttru  ridje  pagg  etproumce  nominee  le 
fai-llfant  mention  tre^  tnerueiileu-  II  to  efjofes 
tant  beue{  par  ees  II  propreg  geulx  que  par  letres 
a  II  lug  enungees  par  ceulx  q  an  meftne 
jatttetll  aux  quelles  font  contenues  plufieurs 
nou-  1|  welles  tant  tre  rtefjeffes  en  eette  prouince 
trouuees  ||  r  tricellug  pags  emeneeg  que  tre  plufieurs 
aultreis  II  marefjantrtfeg  et  rtcjjettes  :  r  ee  trepuis  le 
temps  ql  I!  monta  fur  mer  tufpes  a  prefent  II 

*,,,*   I2mo,  seven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  537. 

\  Catalogue  de  Livrcs  Curicux,  No.  138. 

1  Similar  to  the  mark  in  Marques  Typogr.,  No.  aio,  and  BRUNET,  Vol.  IT,  col.  1041. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  325 

197.     FRANCK  (SEBASTIAN)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  534' 


tnib  MlDeniff  Dee  gani^en  ||  erDtbooens  bon 
Scbaftiano  Sranco||S8orbefi  in  bier  bitrijcr 
nctnlid)  in  9lft-||  ami5fyljrica  i^nrojiamibnb  America 
gftelt  bnb  aateilt  1  2lnd)  utter  bariit  be-  1|  griff  nenSanb  en 
nation  i  ^roninfec  bnb  ^nfclu  i  gef  egenljeit  i  groffe  i  incite  i 
ge  ||  nwdjft  :c)jgenfdjafft  bn&  ber  barinn  gefegener  bolder 
tmb  eintaoncr  i  nam  ||  men  i  a,  eft  aft  i  Icben  \  toefen  i  refigion  i 
gfanBen  i  eeremonien  i  gfat?  i  regitnet  i  1|  ^otticetj  i  fttten  i 
branij  frieg  gemerb  fru^titljienffcibttng  bit  berllenbe- 
rnng  i  eijgentlidj  fnr  bie  angen  gefteft  i  Wudj  etnwg  bo  item  | 
gefunbenen  toeften  bnb  3-nfeIninitt  an(j  ^erofo:;\oannei! 
be  ntonte  bittai8.  iBranbone  giftoriibn  bergfeidjen  || 
fatefnifunb  anfj  angennmnenigfanBniirbigen  ||  erfarne  i 
loeltfdjreibern  mufelig  §u  Ijanff  tra  ||  ge  bit  anfj  bifeni 
wcitfeftffigcn  bucfjern  in  ||  ein  ^anbebud)  engefeibt  bnb 
der-||  fajftibormafg  bergleij|en  ||  in  Seiitdj  nie  auff-  |i 
gangen.  II  I9tit  eincm  ;u  enb  angeljentften  iHegifter  atteg 
imUjalteg.ilAlnm^t  Ijer  mtb  fdiannict  bie  toerif  be§  0er- 
rember  fo  number  bar-illii^  ift  fiber  bie  menfdjen  finber. 
ilbj.  teiiij.  II* 

ANNO.   M.D.XXXIIII. 


*  Angltcc  :    World-book  :    mirror  and  the  eye.    Also  something  about  the  newly 

likeness  of  the  whole  globe,  set  forth  and  found   world   and  islands,  not  from   such 

arranged  by  Sebastian  Franck  of  Woerden  like  fables   as  those  of  Berosus,  John   of 

[in  Holland],  in   four   books,  namely  in  Monte  Villa  [Mandeville?]  and  S.  Bran- 

Asia,  Africa,  Europe  and  America.     Also  don's  history,  but  from  accredited,  trust- 

of  all   the  lands,   nations,   provinces    and  worthy,  experienced  geographers,  brought 

islands   comprised  therein  5  situation,  size,  together  with  great  pains  from  widely  dif- 

plants,  properties,  and  of  the  people   and  fused  books,  and  embodied  and  published 

inhabitants  thereof,  names,  shapes,  mode  of  in  a  single  volume,  the  like  of  which  in 

life,  morals,   religion,  creeds,  ceremonies,  German  was  never  before  published. 

laws,  government,  policy,   manners,  cus-  Come  and  behold  the  work  of  the  Lord, 

toms.  war,  industry,  fruits,  animals,  cloth-  so  wonderful  among  the  children  of  men. 

ing  and  fashions,  properly  represented   to  Ps.  46,  64. 


326  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

C  3  A.»         ^i?r.r0  of  folio  ccxxxvij  : 

C  ©ctrujft  ju  3£iUjtttgett  bu?d)  Sttrii!)  Sftortjart  i  im 
tnufcnt  funff  ||  Ijmtbrrt  trier  bub  brrtjffiftrn  jar.  I! 

On  the  verso  of  fol.  ccx  begins  the  account  of  America  : 

If  $im  America  bent  bierbten  tetyl  ber 


*,,,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf-j-  four  unnumbered  preliminary  leaves  -}- 
two  unnumbered  leaves  +  leaves  marked  m-ccxxxvii  -}-  seven 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Sebastian  Franck  or  Francus  seems  to  have  been  an 
author  of  some  consequence,  since  we  find  him  included 
among  the  Prima  c/assis,  in  qua  auctorum  damnatte  me 
morise  Opera  edita^  &c.'  ;  but  as  we  have  not  access  to 
such  outlandish  authorities  as  the  works  of  Arnold2, 
Seckendorff',  Crenius4  and  Keckermann5,  we  borrow 
the  following  from  Jocher6. 

"  Ein  Wiedertaufer  und  Mysticus  aus  Deutschland  oder  von  Woer- 
den  in  Holland,  hielt  sich  um  1535  zu  Ulm  auf,  von  dannen  er  sich 
aber  wegen  seiner  Irrthumer  wegbegeben  mussen.  Er  lehrte  mit  den 
Stoicis,  dasz  alle  Sunden  gleich  waren,  und  alle  Secten  und  Religionen 
mit  zur  wahren  Kirche  gehorten,  verachtett  die  heilige  Schrifft,  und 
drunge  nur  auf  den  Geist  ;  dannenhero  er  von  Luthero,  Melanchthone 
und  andern  widerleget  worden,  auch  noch  vor  Luthero  um  1545 
gestorben." 

Bayle  says7  concerning  the  work  before  us  : 

"II  ne  faut  pas  oublier  une  Chronique  Allemande  ou  il  mela  bien  des 
choses  prodigieuses.  Mr.  Moreri  a  parle  de  lui  sous  le  nom  de  Franck 
mais  il  ri'en  dit  presque  rien,  quoique  Mr.  de  Sponde"  qu'il  cite  cut 
pu  tournir  des  particularitez,  &  entre  autres  celle-ci,  que  Francus  fut 
chasse,  de  Strasbourg,  et  que  sa  Chronique  y  fut  condamnee." 

1  Index  Libror.  Prohib.  (Madrid,  fol.,  *  de  Histor.  in  Optra  Omnia  ;  Geneva, 

1667),  p.  884.  fol.,  1614 

8  Kirchen  und  Ketzer  Histor.  ;  Frankft.,  *  Allgem.  Gelehrt.  Lexic.,  Vol.  u,  p.  719. 

fol.,  1699.  '  Dictionnaire,  art.  Francus. 

8   Comm.de  Luther,  ;  Frankft.,  410,  1692.  8  Jlnnal.    ad   ann.    1529,    num.    9,    af. 

*  Anlmadvers.  ;  Lyons,  8vo,  1697.  BAYLE. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  327 

XERES  (FRANCIS)—  Within  a  border  and  under  a  vignette  :       I 


la  omqtttfia  tol 

g  prouincia  trel  <£u?co  Uamatra  la  nueua  (Saftilla: 
Otonpiftatra  pot  el  magnifico  ||  g  egforcatro  caua= 
Hero  jFranctfco  picarro  fjijo  trel  capitan  (Honjalo 
pirarro  caua  ||  Hero  tre  la  ciutratr  tre  ftrugillo  :  como 
capitan  general  tre  la  eefarea  g  catijoltca  ||  mageftatr 
51  emperatior  g  res  n!o  feiior  :  IBmMafca  a  fu  tna= 
geftatr  por  J^ranctsco  :  tre  Xere?  natural  tre  la  mug 
notle  g  mug  leal  ctutratr  tie  g>eutlla  fecretarto  trel  || 
tobretudjo  feiior  entotras  lag  putnctas  g  conptfta 
tre  la  nueua  Otaftilla  g  bno  II  tie  los  prtmeros 
qutftatioreg  tiella.  «S^^i^^^^^^i^ 
C  Jfue  bifta  g  examinatra  efta  otra  por 
tratro  tre  log  feftores  tnptfitroreg||tiel  arcottfpatio 
tie  g?*wUa:  r  impreffa  en  cafa  tre  Uartljolome 
peret  en  el  meg  tre  3ulio,  ^no  $el  parto  birginal 
mil  r  quinientog  g  tregnta  g  quatro.*  i&  £. 


*,,,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  eighteen  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in 
two  columns,  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf,  which  contains  a  con 
tinuation  of  a  piece  of  poetry,  is  in  three  columns. 
(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

*  Anglicl  :   A  true  account  of  the  con-  Very  Loyal  city  of  Sevilla  ;  secretary  of  the 

quest    of  Peru,    and    of  the   province  of  said    captain    throughout    the    conquered 

Cuzco,  called  New  Castil,  subjugated   by  provinces  and  countries  of  New  Castil,  and 

Francisco  Pizarro,  Captain  [in  the  service]  one  of  the  first  conquerors  of  that  country. 

of  His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  our  master.  A  work  seen    and  examined  by    order  of 

Dedicated  to  his  Majesty  the    Emperor,  by  Messrs,  the  Inquisitors  of  the  Archbishop- 

F.  Xeres,  a  native  of  the  Most  Noble  and  ric   of  Sevilla,  and  printed  in   the   estab- 


328  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

"Je  n'ai  pu  trouver  sur  Francisco  de  Xeres  d'autres  renseignements 
que  ceux  qu'il  nous  donne  lui  meme.  On  voit  par  le  titre  de  son 
livre,  qu'il  etait  secretaire  de  Fran9ois  Pizarre  et  1'un  des  premiers 
conquerants  du  Perou :  ce  fut  par  1'ordre  de  ce  chef  qu'il  ecrivit  sa 
Relation  a  Caxamalca  meme  II  fut  de  retour  a  Seville  le  9  Janvier 
1534  [June  3d,  see  recto  of  E  8,  in  this  edition].  C'est  probable- 
ment  1'Histoire  du  Perou,  sans  nom  d'auteur  qui  se  trouve  cite  sous 
le  No.  41  [our  No.  199,  a  very  different  work],  de  ma  bibliotheque 
americaine  ;  mais  comme  je  n'ai  jamais  vu  1'original,  je  n'ai  pu  verifier 
ce  fait. 

"  La  conquete  du  Perou  fut  traduite  en  langue  italienne,  ou  plutot 
en  dialecte  venitien,  par  Domenico  de  Gaztelu,  gentilhomme  navar- 
rais,  natif  de  Tudela,  et  secretaire  de  don  Lope  de  Soria,  ambassadeur 
de  Charles  V  pres  la  republique  de  Venise  ou  1'auteur  la  fit  imprimer 
en  1535,  chez  Stephano  da  Sabio  [our  No.  200,  and  at  Milan,  in  the 
same  year,  by  Gotardo  da  Ponte,  our  No.  201].  Le  texte  espagnol 
fut  reimprime  en  1547  a  Salamanque  chez  Francisco  Fernandez  de 
Cordoue  [infra],  II  parait  que  cette  seconde  edition,  la  seule  que 
j'aie  pu  me  procurer,  fut  revue  avec  beaucoup  de  negligence,  car  on  y 
trouve  quelquefois  des  passages  tronques,  dont  on  ne  peut  comprendre 
le  sens  qu'a  1'aide  de  la  version  de  Gaztelu :  ce  qu'on  a  eu  soin  de 
faire  observer  dans  les  notes. 

"  Cette  relation,  fort  rare  aujourd'hui,  est  restee  inconnue  a  plusieurs 
historiens  espagnols :  je  citerai  entre  autres  Pizarro  y  Orellana  qui, 
dans  son  ouvrage  sur  les  hommes  illustres  des  Indes,  ne  dit  pas  un  mot 
de  Xeres  ni  de  son  livre,  quoiqu'il  ne  parle  presque  que  des  Pizarre, 
et  qu'il  remplisse  ses  marges  de  citations. 

"  Barcia  a  fait  entrer  1'histoire  de  la  Conquete  du  Perou  dans  sa  col 
lection  intitulee  :  Historiadores  primitives  de  las  Indias1." 

(TERNAUX8.) 

This  edition  of  Xeres  contains  the  following  passage, 
which  is  not  in  the  edition  of  1547  : 

$  porq  en  efta  ciuirair  ire  Seuilla  algunos  con 
emtitria  o  tnaiicia:  j>  ottos  con  ignorancta  ire  la 
beriratr  en  fu  atfencia  ija  tnaltratatro  fu  fjonra  bn 
ftitralgo  troiietro  fe  tre  afrenta  ta  faifa  cotra  fjotre  q 
ta  ijonratramete  g  ta  lerois  Ufu  natural  ija  Muitro  i 
e  fu  flfenfa  los  ftguietes  metrosi. 


lishment  of  Bartholomew   Perez,   in   the          l  Vol.  in. 

month  of  July.    The  year  of  the  Immacu-          a  Introduction  to  his  own  translation  of 

late  Conception  1534.  Xeres;   Paris,  1837. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  329 

This  is  followed  by  a  long  piece  of  poetry,  containing 
a  greater  number  of  stanzas3  than  in  the  Salamanca 
edition. 

Besides  the  Italian  versions  already  mentioned,  there 
is  another  in  Ramusio4,  an  English  translation  in  Pur- 
chas5,  and  one  in  French  in  TernauxV  Recueil. 


I  QQ.  ANONYMOUS  —  Within  a  wide  border,  and  under  a  large 
square  vignette  (which,  we  think,  is  only  a  repetition  of  the  border 
and  woodcut  in  No.  198). 


llamatra  la  nueua  (tfaftilla,  Ha  ql  tterra  par  iuuina 
bo  ||  luntalr  fue  marauillofamente  conpiftatra  en 
la  felietf  ||  ftma  benttira  trel  IBrnperatror  g  Meg 
nueftro  fenot:  g  pot  la  prutrencia  g  porla  pru^ 
treiuia  g  effuer^o  trel  mug  magntfico  g  bale  II  rota 
cauallero  el  Otapitan  jfrancifw  pi^arro  Souernall 
trot  g  atrelantatro  tre  la  nueua  cafttllaig  tre  fu 
ijermallno  ffiernanJo  pt^arroig  tre  fus  animofois 
capitaneg  II  r  fteleg  g  effortatrois  companeros  q  efi 
el  fe  ijallaron.  II 

see 


Within  an  ornamented  border,  and  below  the  double-headed  eagle 
escutcheon  : 

(L  IBfta  ofcra  fue  impreffa  ||  en  la  mug  notle  g 

3  "It    [the   Conquista]    ends   in   Barcia  Tom.    xxvr,    1853,   and   Gayangos    con- 

with  some  poor  verses  in  defense  of  Xeres,  jectures   them   to  have    been   written    by 

by  a  friend,  which  are  ampler  and  more  Oviedo."     TICKNOR,  Hiit.  of  Span.  Lift., 

important  in  the  original  edition,  and  con-  Vol.  n,  p.  40,  note  37. 

tain  notices  of  his  life.     They  are  reprinted  4  Raccolta,  Vol.  in,  fol.  372-92. 

in   the    Biblioteca   di   Autorcs    Espagfiola,  °  Pilgrimcs,  Pt.  II,  B.  vn,  pp.   1491-4. 

42 


330  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1534.  mug  I!  leal  ctutmtr  ire  g>e  II  utllaien  cafa  tre 
—  =  lome  II  perej,  en  el  II  mes  tre  II  Efcril.  II  >J<  II  Mo  ire 
mil  r  Qutnietog  g  tregnta  g  patro.  II 

*5|c*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  eight  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in 
long  lines;  the  verso  of  the  seventh  leaf  contains  a  portion  of 
the  text,  followed  by  a  repetition  of  the  large  chap-like 
vignette  on  the  title-page.  Recto  of  the  eighth  leaf  blank. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  Narration  is  very  different  from  Xeres'  (No. 
198).  It  was  evidently  composed  by  one  of  Pizarro's 
companions,  and  seems  to  be  the  original  of  the  third 
part  of  our  No.  190,  but  more  succinct  than  the  Italian. 
The  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana1  states  that  it  is  identical 
with  the  Relatione  (Tun  Capitano  Spagnuolo  della  Conquista 
del  Peru,  published  by  Ramusio,  but  with  "  many  varia 
tions,"  an  assertion  which  we  have  no  means  of  verify 
ing  at  present. 

Direct  references:  f  SCHWINDEL,  Thesavrvs  bibliothecalis,  Vol.  I,  page  166. 
PANZER,  Annales  Tyf>ogr.,~Vol.  VII,  page  124,  No.  38. 
TERNAUX,  No.  41. 
EBERT,  No.  5129. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  251. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  II,  col.  230. 
Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  VII,  No.  4600. 


2OO.    XERES-GAZTELU—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

LIBRO    PRI  ii  MO  DE  LA 

CONQVISTA  ||  DEL    PERV  &  prouin- 
cia  del  Cuzco  ||  de  le  Indie  occidental!.  || 

Then,  coat-of-arms  with  the  double-headed  eagle,  holding  in  its 
claws  a  medallion,  with  the  following  legend  inscribed  thereon  : 
EXIVIT  SONVS  EORVM,  then  : 

Con  gratia  &  priuilegio  per  anni  X.  || 

1  Vol.  II,  page  536. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 
Verso  of  the  title-page :  I  f  *?  C , 

Neffum  ardifca  di  ftampare  il  prefente 
volume  o  ||  far  ftampar  ne  ftampato  da 
altri  dare  a  vendere  in  ||  li  loghi  del  noftro 
dominio  fotto  la  pena  che  nel  ||  breue 
appare1. 

Colophon  : 

Stampato  in  Vinegia  per  Maeftro  || 
Stephano  da  Sabio  del  MD  ||  XXXV.  Nel' 
mefe  II  di  Marzo.  II 


4to  (signatures  in  eights),  title  one  leaf,  -f-  fifty-nine  unnum 
bered  leaves,  -f-  one  leaf  with  the  above  colophon  on  the  recto, 
and  on  the  verso  an  escutcheon  sporting  a  large  crown  with 
the  word  SABIO.  The  narrative  begins  on  the  recto  of  the 
fifth  leaf. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 


1  Mr.  Grenville,  in  a  MS.  note  added  riguez,  on  board  of  which  it  is  more  than 

to  his  copy  (now  in  the  British  Museum),  probable  that  Xeres  was  a  passenger,  as  the 

refers  to  this  passage  as  indicating  that  the  craft  belonged  to  him  :  "  La  -vna  de  las  dot 

present  was  the  first  of  the  two  editions  of  naos  postreras  q  llcgaron,  en  la  ql  -vino  par 

Gaztelu's  version.  maestre  Fracisco  rodrigucx  et  de  Francisco 

de  Xcrcx  natural  desta  ciudad  a"  Seuilla  :  el 

In  reply  to  GRAESSE'S  fling  at  BRUNIT,  qual  cscriuio  esta  relacion"  Sec.,  Sec.  (Recto 

vix.  :  "  Quand  il  dit  que  ces  deux  derniers  of  the  last  leaf  in  edition  of  1534.)  This 

volumes  [Gotardo  de  Ponte's  and  Stephano  vessel  reached  Seville,  June  30!,  1534: 

da  Sabio's  editions]  sont  la  traduction  de  "  En  el  sobrcdicho  ano  (/.  e.  "  Ano  f  mil y 

1'ouvrage  de  F.  Xeres  (V.  Oviedo  et  Xeres),  quinietos  y  treynta  y  qtro"  see  a  few  lines 

je  ne  comprends  pas  comment  la  version  above,  where  he  refers  to  the  arrival  of  a 

d'unlivrepourraitetreimprimeeen  I535qui,  vessel  "a  nucuc  d'cnero"),  el  tercero  dia  del 

selon  les  propres  mots  de  1'auteur  (a  la  fin  mes  </'  Junto  llegaro  otros  dos  naos  en  la  vna 

de  la  Verdadera  rclacion  1547,  v.  Oviedo),  vent  a  for  maestre  Fracisco  rodriguez." 

avait  etc  ecrit  dans  la  ville  de  Caxamalca  (Recto  of  E8.)  The  Xeres,  which  is  the 

par  ordre  de  Fran9-  Pizarro  peu  avant  le  re-  original  from  which  the  present  Italian 

tour  de  1'auteur  a  Seville,  le  3  Juin  1538."  translation,  as  well  as  the  Spanish  reprint  of 

(Vol.  n,  page  2,51,)  we  beg  leave  to  state  1547  were  made,  was  printed  in  July,  1534. 

that  there  is  no  authority  whatever  for  this  There  is  no  difficulty,  therefore,  in  under- 

"  peu  avant  le  3  Juin  1538."  On  the  standing  how  a  work  commenced  at  Caxa- 

contrary,  there  is  evidence  that  Xeres  wrote  malca  as  early  as  March,  1533,  which  is 

his  account  long  before  that  date.  The  the  date  when  Francisco  Pizarro  "  ordered 

Verdadera  relacion  ends  with  the  arrival  in  that  a  relacion  should  be  written  to  be  sent 

that  city  of  the  vessel  commanded  by  Rod-  to  His  Majesty,"  and  which  was  completed 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

*535*        Italian  translation  of  Xeres'  Conquista  (No.  198),  by 
-  Domenico  de  Gaztelu  or  Gazulo2,  but  with  the  omission 
of  the  last  sentence  and  stanzas  in  the  original. 
Alcedo  says3  of  the  translation  : 

"  Nacio  en  la  villa  de  Ochandiano  del  Sefiorio  de  Vizcaya  (Ternaux 
says  in  "  Tudela")  ;  era  Caballero  del  Orden  de  Alcantara,  Ministro 
del  Tribunal  de  la  contradixia  mayor  y  del  Consejo  de  Hacienda." 

Direct  references:  f  HAYM,  Biblioteca  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  page  177,  No.  a. 
PJNELO-BARCIA,  col.  649. 
RICH,  No.  ii. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  230. 
Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  ix,  No.  3179. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  536. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  19,  No.  65. 
Livres  Curieux,  No.  139. 


2O  I .   IDEM  OPUS— Above  a  woodcut  like  that  described  in  No.  200. 

LIBRO     PR  I  II  MO    DE    LA 

CONQVISTA  ||  DEL  PERV  &  Prouen- 
cia  del  Cuzco||de  le  Indie  occidental!.  || 

No  imprint. 
Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf : 

([  Impreffo  in  Milano  per  Domino  Go- 
tardo  ||  da  Ponte  a  compagnia  de  Domino 
lo.  ||  Ambrofio  da  Borfano  nel  Anno  ||  del 
Mille  cinquecento  e  ||  trenta  cinque.  || 


in  all  probability  a  few  days  after  the  vessel 
arrived  at  Seville,  in  June,  1534,  should 
have  been  printed  in  July  of  the  same  year, 
and  republished  in  a  different  language  nine 
months  afterwards. 

We  should  also  add  that  BRUNET  gives 
the  date  of  1535  to  de  Ponte's  edition, 
whilst  Graesse  prints  it  "1538."  The 
title  of  da  Sabio's  is  also  given  by  the  latter, 
in  a  manner  which  differs  materially  from 
the  copy  before  us.  Must  we  understand 


that  da  Sabio  printed  two  separate  editions 
of  the  Gaztelu  version  in  1535,  and  that 
de  Ponte  likewise  gave  two,  one  in  1535, 
and  the  other  in  1538  ? 

11  ANTONIO,  Biblioth.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  I, 
p.  329. 

8  Bibliot.  Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  I,  men 
tions  also  an  imaginary  edition  of  Gaztelu's 
version  of  Xeres,  "Madrid,  410,  1525." 
We  think  there  is  a  life  of  G.iztelu  in 
BAENA,  Hijos  de  Madrid. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  333 

Then,  within   a   frame,   a   shield    with   an   eagle,   and   the  words      I  C^  C, 
GOTARDVS DE PONTE__ 


*„,*  410  (signature  in  eights),  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary 
leaves  -f-  forty  unnumbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  rarissime  edition  is  altogether  inferior  to  the 
preceding,  in  typography,  paper  or  woodcuts,  and  seems 
to  be  only  a  clumsy  imitation,  but  evidently  of  1535. 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  — . 

J  Livres  curieux,  page  29,  No.  139. 
(  BRONET,  Vol.  n,  col.  230. 

2O  2.     APIANUS  (PETER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

-ft  COSMO  A  ||  GRAPHIC  INTRODVCTIO  || 
cum  quibufdam  Geometries  ac  Ajtro-  ||  nomits  principijs  ad  earn  \\  rem 
necejjarijs.  \\ 

Then  sphere,  and  below  :   MD  XXXV. 

Colophon  : 

Venetijs  per  lo.  Antonium  de  Nicolinis  de  Sabio,  \\  sumptu  £3* 
requifitione  D.  Melcbioris  ||  Sejfie.  Anno  Domini.  \\  MDXXXV. 
Men/is  lanuarij '.  \\ 

%.*  Sm.  8vo  ;  title  one  leaf  +  thirty  numbered  leaves  -f-  one  leaf, 
verso  blank,  but  on  the  recto,  Nicolini's  printer's  mark,  and 
the  device  DISSIMILIVM  INFIDA  SOCIETAS. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of  leaf  22  and  recto  of  23  ;  and,  supra,  our 
Nos.  149  and  150. 

Direct  references  :  f  CANCELLIERI,  Dissertazioni,  page  46. 
-|  CANOVAI,  fitat  page  300. 
(  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  V«l.  iv,  page  102. 

203.  SABELLICUS  (M.  c.)—"  Rhapfodiae  Hiftoriarum 
Enneadum. 

"  Paris,  1535,  folio." 

(MEUSEL'.) 
1  Bibliotheca  Histories  Vol.  I,  Part  1,  page  96. 


334  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1535'  204.  BERGOMA$(jAC.  PHIL.}—  "Supplementum  Chron- 
=====  icorum,  Omnes  Fere  Hiftorias  quae  ab  orbe  condito 
hactenus  geftae  funt  iucunda  admodum  dicendi  breuitate 
complectens.  Opus  fane  quam  vtiliflimum,  &  cuiufuis 
conditionis  viro  pernecefTarium  :  primum  quidem  a 
Venerando  patre  Jacobo  Philippo  Eergomate  ordinem  Ere- 
mitarum  profeflb  confcriptum,  deinde  vero  eruditorum 
quorundam  diligentia,  multis  mendis,  ac  fuperfuis  qui- 
bufdam  rebus  diligentiffirne  repurgatum,  in  ftudioforum 
omnium  gratiam  atque  vtilitatem.  Cui  infuper  addita 
eft  noftrorum  temporum  breuis  quaedam  acceffio  eorum 
annorum  hiftorias  ac  res  turn  priuatas  turn  externas 
complectens  quae  ab  anno.  1500.  ad  annum  153  5.  turn 
hie,  turn  etiam  alibi  geftae  funt.  Parifiis,  M.D.XXXV 
(1535).  Apud  Simonem  Colineum,  in  vico  D.  Joannis  Bel- 
louacenfis.  Cum  priuilegio.  Et  a  la  fin.  Praeftantif- 
fimum  hoc  atque  utilifTimum  totius  orbis  Chronicorum 
opus :  ea  omnia  quae  ab  ipfa  mundi  creatione  ad  annum 
ufque  1535.  peracta  funt  breui  quodam  ftylo  complectens 
excufum  eft  Parifiis,  opera  ac  praelo  Jacobi  Nyuerdi  ad- 
fcriptitii  bibliopolae  &  chalcographi :  fumptib.  uero  ac 
diligentiff.  cura,  Simonis  Colinaei,  &  Galeoti  a  Prato  bib- 
liopolarum  Parifien.  Anno  a  Chrifto  nato  M.D.XXXV. 
pridie  Calendas  Augufti.  in  Fol.,  Feuillets  443.  Sans 
les  pieces  liminaires. 

"  Quoique  cette  Edition  soil  furieusement  tronquee,  on  ne  la  doit 
pas  tout  a  fait  rejetter,  a  cause  du  Livre  XVII.  qui  sert  de  Suplement 
a  1'Ouvrage,  &  qui  contient  certains  articles,  qui  ne  sont  pas  a  me- 
priser :  com  me  ceux  tf  Aldus  Manutius,  Cbristopborus  Longolius,  Jo. 
Calpburnius,  Janus  Lascaris,  &c.,  mais  il  faut  absolument  1'accom- 
pagner  d'une  Edition  plus  ancienne  :  entre  lesquelles  je  choisirais 
celle  de  1'an  1506.  in  Fol." 

(CLEMENT1.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  335 

The  chapter^  iv  permaximis  insults,  &c.,  is  on  folio    1535' 
412. 

This   truncated   edition,    with    the    valuable    chapter 
xvn,  however,  was  republished  at  Venice,  1547*,  folio. 

Direct  references:  f  l  Bibliotheque  Curieuse,  Vol.  HI,  page  1 80. 

-|       Histor.  Tyfogr. ;   London,  1717,  Part  II,  page  12. 

MAITTAIRE,  Annalts,  Vol.  u,  Part  u,  page  824. 
8  NICERON,  Memoires,  Vol.  xvil,  page  223. 
FABRICIUS,  Biblioth.  Lat.  mcd.,  Book  ix,  page  38. 

205.     VARTHEMA-DI AS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

ftittnano  flf  3Eud0tti(0  fle  n 

Uartfjema  HSolognefe  nello  lEgitto,  nella  g>o-||ria 
nella  Gratia  fceferta,  &  feltee,  nella  13er  II  Ha,  nella 
Jntrta,  ^  nella  iEtfjppta.  He  fetre  II  el  btuere  & 
eoftumi  trelle  prefate  ^ra  II  utncte.  (E  iBt  al  pfente 
agtontout  al  II  eune  Jfole  nouamete  rttrouate.  II 

Then  large  vignette  similar  to  the  one  in  the  edition  of  1522,  but 
not  so  well  finished. 

Colophon  : 

(E  Stampato  in  Vinegia  per  Francefco 
di  Aleffan/ 1|  dro  Bindone,  &  Mapheo  Pa- 
iini  compani,  a  ||  fanto  Moyfe  al  fegno  de 
Langelo  Ra-  ||  phael.  M.D.XXXV.  ||  del 
mefe  d'Aprile.  ||* 

*„,*  Sm.   8vo,   title   one   leaf  +  leaves   numbered   from   2-1004- 
three  unnumbered  leaves, 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references :  (  HAYM,  Bibliotheca  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  page  1 8 1,  No.  3. 
\  PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vm,  page  545. 

Anglice :  Printed  at  Venice  by  Francis     the   sign  of  the    Angel    Raphael,   April, 
di  Alexandro  Bindone  and  Mapheus  Pa-     1535. 
fini,   Companions  of  St.  Moses    [  ?  ],   at         The  rest  as  in  No.  98. 


336  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2O6.     ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  teaf  : 


Ha  notril  Citta  nuouantente 

ritrouata  alie  Jntrie  con  li 

fuoi  coftumi  r  mofci  trel 

fuo  He  r  lot  ppoli 
Hi  mofci  trel  fuo  atrorare  con  la 

Mia  bfan?a  irelle  tonne  loro. 

IBt  &e  le  t»ua  perfone  ertnafrotrtte 

tronate  tra  pel  Heal  (JTapt- 

tano  trella  ^rmata. 

Then  square  vignette. 
In  fine  : 

Data  in  ZhauaL    Adi.  xxv.  di  Settembre. 
M.D.XXXV.* 


*  * 
* 


410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  text  begins  on  verso  of  title,  followed 
by  three  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in  italics. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Our  transcript  is  made  from  two  impressions,  gen 
erally  considered  as  authentic  originals,  but  which  are, 
in  fact,  only  fac-similes  executed  by  the  elder  Harris. 
The  original  is  in  the  British  Museum. 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Gretrvilliana,  page  8za,  and  Part  II,  page  445. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  1 8,  No.  63. 
BRUNEI,  Vol.  HI,  col.  102,1. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  iv,  page  183. 


*  Anglice  :  Letter  from  the  noble  city  ners  of  their  women,  and  concerning  two 

recently  discovered  in  the  Indies,  with  the  hermaphrodites  given  by  the  King  to  the 

customs    and    manners    of  its    King    and  captain  of  the  fleet, 

peoples,  their  religion  and  the  fine  man-  Dated  Zhaval,  September  25th,  1535. 


Bibttotheca  Americana.  337 

2O7.     OV1EDO  ( G.  F.  DE)— Below  the  arms  of  Spain,  printed  in  red: 


Ifl0 


Then  at  the  bottom  of  the  page  : 


pmal> 


Verso  of  the  title-page  : 

^rimera  parte  tre  la  Jjtftoria  natural  g  gene||ral 
tre  las  intrtas  gflas  r  tierra  firme  trel  mat  oceano  : 
efcripta  por  el  capt  ||  tan  gomalo  ijernantin  tre 
(©bietio  r  ballres  :  alcagtie  tie  la  fortaleja  tre-  II  la 
ciutrao  tre  tancto  liomingo  tre  la  gfla  efpanolaig 
cronifta  trela  Sacra  ||  cefarea  g  eatijoltcas  magef? 
tatres  trel  emperatror  tron  carlos  quinto  tre  tal  noire: 
reg  ||  tre  efpana:  r  tre  la  ferenittima  r  mug  potrerofa 
regna  trona  Juana  in  matrre  nueftros  II  Mores. 
^or  cugo  mantratro  el  auctor  efcriuio  las  cofas 
marauillofas  que  ag  en  trt-  1|  uerfas  gflas  r  partes 
treftas  intrtas  r  tmperto  trela  corona  real  tre  cafttlla: 
fegu  lo  bi  II  tro  r  fupo  en  begnte  r  tros  anos  r  mas 
que  ta  que  iriue  r  refttre  en  aquellas  partes  :  ||  3la 
qual  ijiftoria  comienca  enel  primero  trefcutrtmiento 
treftas  intrias  :  g  fe  contie  II  ne  en  begnte  litros  efte 
primero  bolumen.  II 

In  fine  : 

...  Ha  qual  fe  acafco  r  imprimto  enla  mug 
noWe  g  mug  leal  cibtratr  tre  Sebillaien  la  emprellta 

43 


338  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1535.  ire  Juam  (ftrotnterger  i  ei  poftrero  tria  fcel  meg 
-  $etienrtre.    Eno  tie  mil  r  quinientos  g  tregnta 

cinco 


*„,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  +  four  preliminary  leaves,  +  text  1-186 
+  table  1  86^-191  (Colophon  on  verso),  +  Epistola  192-193, 
with  arms  of  Oviedo  on  the  verso  of  the  last. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

As  we  have  already  stated  (page  257)  the  present  work 
is  entirely  different  from  the  Natural  Hystoria  de  las 
Indias,  published  in  1526  (supra,  No.  139).  This  is 
the  genuine  "  General  and  Natural  History  of  the 
Indies"  of  Oviedo,  so  often  quoted.  It  was  originally 
divided  into  three  parts,  numbering  in  all  fifty  books. 
The  first  part  is  the  present  No.  207,  which  contains 
nineteen  books,  and,  we  think,  a  portion  of  the  fiftieth 
(on  shipwrecks).  These  nineteen  and  a  half  books  were 
republished  at  Salamanca,  in  1547  (infra).  In  1557, 
the  twentieth  book,  which  is  the  first  of  the  second 
part,  was  printed  separately1.  No  other  portion  of 
this  work  appeared  in  print  until  1851. 

The  traditions  and  stories  concerning  the  subsequent 
fate  of  the  unpublished  parts,  still  find  credence  even 
among  usually  trustworthy  bibliographers.  Some  of 
the  latter,  forgetting  that  in  the  edition  of  1557,  there 
is  a  notice  printed,  announcing  the  fact  that  the  print 
ing  of  the  rest  of  the  work  was  interrupted  by  the  death 
of  the  author1,  believe  to  this  day  that  a  great  conflagra 
tion  destroyed  the  printing  establishment  of  Francisco 


1  ^f  Libro  .  XX  .  De  la  fegunda  parte  de         *%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  sixty-three 

la  general  ||  hiftoria  de  las  Indias  .  Efcripta  11.  BLACK  LETTER. 
por   el    Capitan  ||  Gon9alo    Fernandez    de  (Private  Libr.,  Providence). 

Ouiedo,  y  Valdes  .  Al-  ||  cayde  de  la  forta-         a  The  end  of  Chapter  XXXV,  on  fol. 

leza  y  puerto  de  Sacto  Domin  ||  go,  d'la  ifla  LXIIII,  which   is  the  last,  reads  as  fol- 

Efpanola  .  Cronifta  d'  fu  Mageftad.  ||  gue  lows  : 

trata   del   eftrecho   de   Magellans.  ||  jj"  En         " ....  to    para   fu    fuftentacion    cftas 

Valladolid  .  Por    Francifco    Fernandez    de  almendras  que  tengo  dicho. 
Cordoua.  ||  Impreflbr  de  fu  Mageftad  .  Ano          "  f  No  fe  imprimo  mas  delta  obra,  por- 

de  M  .  D  .  LVJI.  II  que  murio  el  autor." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  339 

Fernandez  de  Cordova,  His  Majesty's  printer,  with  all     1535' 
its  contents,  including  the  printed  parts  and  manuscripts  — — — — 
of  Oviedo  ;    while   others   assert  that  the   unpublished 
books  have  never  been  written  at  all,  and  exist  only  in 
the  imagination  of  booksellers.     Even  Brunet  himself, 
as  late  as  the  last  edition  of  his  valuable  Manuel,  asserts 
that   "on   ne  sait  ce  que  sont  devenus  les  livres  21  a 
28,"  although  he  himself  cites  the  work  which  contains 

o  _ 

these  very  books  in  full. 

The  facts  are  simply  these : 

After  Oviedo's  death,  the  manuscripts  of  the  remain 
ing  twenty-nine  and  a  half  books  were  scattered,  but 
nearly  all  collected  again,  since  in  1775  a  set  was  kept 
in  the  archives  of  the  Ministerio  de  Gracia  y  Justicia 
de  Indias ;  and  Jose  Alvarez  Baena  stated,  when  he  was 
about  to  print  his  Historical  Dictionary,  that  he  had 
copied  and  collated  the  whole,  preparatory  to  publish 
ing  it :  C£  Todo  se  hallaba  copiado,  comprobado  y  en 
disposicion  de  imprimirse."  At  all  events,  when  the 
Royal  Academy  of  History  commenced  collecting  the 
manuscripts  of  Oviedo,  for  the  purpose  of  publication, 
it  obtained  possession  of  the  original  codices,  bequeathed 
at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  by  the  Pro 
fessor  of  Divinity  in  the  Cathedral  of  Seville  (Maestre- 
escuela),  Don  Andres  Gasco,  to  the  Casa  de  Contrata- 
cion,  and  which  once  belonged  to  the  Convent  of  Mon- 
serrate.  They  lacked  a  few  pages,  which,  we  believe, 
are  still  missing,  and  the  XXVI I Ith  Book,  which  was 
afterwards  found  among  some  stray  papers  collected 
from  the  scattered  archives  of  the  Jesuits,  in  the  library 
of  the  Count  de  Torre-Palma. 

The  whole  work  has  been  lately  published  by  the 
Royal  Academy  of  History  of  Madrid,  in  a  style  and 
with  a  care  which  confer  the  greatest  credit  on  the  editor, 
printers  and  publishers3. 

s  Historia  General  y  Natural  de  las  In-  Oviedo  y  Valdes,  Primer  Cronista  del 
dias,  islas  y  tierra-firme  del  mar  oceano,  Nuevo  Mundo.  Publicala  la  Real  Aca- 
por  el  Capitan  Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  demia  de  la  Historia,  cotejada  con  el  co- 


340 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1 .5  3  5*  As  to  tne  composition  of  the  work,  it  seems  to  date 
.  as  far  back  as  1526*.  Mr.  Ticknor  infers  from  several 
passages  in  Books  xxxm  and  xxxiv,  that  Oviedo  kept 
each  book  or  each  large  division  open  for  additions  as 
long  as  he  lived5.  The  work,  it  is  well  known,  was 
written  from  official  documents,  sent  to  him  expressly6, 
as  the  authorized  Chronicler  of  the  Indies  ;  an  office 
held  probably  before  by  Fray  Bernardo  Gentil7,  and 
afterwards  by  Herrera  and  Solis. 

There  is  a  translation  into  Italian  by  Ramusio8  of 
this  first  part,  the  first  ten  books  of  which  were  trans 
lated  into  French  by  Jean  Poleur9. 

Direct  references:  [  PANZER,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  124. 
TERNAUX,  No.  46. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  IT,  col.  299. 

Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part  VI,  No.  2833  (with  autograph). 
Bibliotheca  Brotoniana,  page  19,  No.  64  (with  autograph). 
Historical  Nuggets,  Vol.  n,  No.  2067. 


dice  original,  enriquecida  con  las  enmien- 
das  y  adiciones  del  autor,  e  illustrada  con 
la  vida  y  el  juicio  de  las  obras  del  mismo 
por  D.  JOSE  AMADOR  DE  LOS  Rios. 

Madrid,  Imprenta  de  la  Real  Academia 
de  la  Historia,  1851-52-53-55. 

*£*  Folio,  4  vols.,  map. 

The  1st  vol.  contains  from  Book         I  to  Book  XX. 
"    zd    "         "  "  XX      "     XXIX. 

"    ?d    "          "  "      XXIX      "XXXIX. 

"    4th  "         "  "   XXXIX      "  L. 

which  "  libro  quinquagessimo  es  el  ultimo 
libro  de  la  Historia  natural  y  general :  le 
qual  tracta  de  los  infortunios  e  naufragios 
acaescidos  en  las  mares  de  las  Indias,  islas 
y  Tierra-Firme  del  mar  O9eano." 

*  "  Yo  he  escrito  en  este  breve  Sumario, 
6  Relacion,  lo  que  de  aquesta  natural  His 
toria  he  podido  reducir  a  la  memoria,  i  he 
dexado  de  hablar  en  otras  cosas  muchas, 
de  que  enteramente  no  me  acuerdo,  ni  tan 
el  propio  como  son  se  pudieraran  escrevir, 
ni  expresarse  tan  largamente,  como  estan 
en  la  General,  i  Natural  Historia  de  Indias, 
que  de  mi  mono  tengo  escrita"     apud  BAR- 
CIA'S  reprint,  Vol.  i,  p.  56. 

6  History  of  Spanish  Litterature,  Vol.  II, 
p.  33,  note  23. 

*  "  Demas  desto  digo  que  yo  tengo  cedu- 
las    reales,  para  que  los  gobernadores  me 


envien  region  de  lo  que  tocare  a  la  his- 
toria  en  sus  gobernaciones  para  estas  his- 
torias."  Introduction  to  B.  xxxm,  Vol. 
Ill,  p.  258,  of  the  Madrid  reprint. 

7  "  Aunque  el  protonotario  Pedro  Martir 
que  era  de  Milan,  e  fray  Bernardo  Gentil 
que  era  Sicilians,  e  ambos  fueron  historio- 
grafos  de  S.  M.,  hablaron  en  cosas  de  In 
dias."    (OVIEDO,  lib.  34,  cap.  3.)     All  we 
could  ascertain  concerning  this  GENTIL  is 
what  we  found  in  MuRoz  (Pro/ago,  p.  xiv), 
•viz. :  "  era  del  orden  de  Santo  Domingo, 
residia  y  ensenaba  en  Espana  a  principles 
del  Siglo  xvi :  era  conocido  del  celebre  co- 
mendador  griego  [?],  y  gozaba  creditos  de 
ingenioso  poeta.      De  escritos  Suyos   nada 
he  polido  saber  mas  de  que  penso  ilustrar 
las  hazanas  del  gran  capitan  en  versos  he- 
roycos ;"   and    he    refers    to   three    letters 
(libb.  5,  15  y  17)  in  the  Of  us  Efistol.  of 
Lucio  Marineo  (infra). 

8  Raccolta,  Vol.  nr,  from  fol.  74  to  fol. 
223. 

9  UHistoire  Naturcllc   et    Generalle   des 
Indes,  Isles,  et  Terre  Firme  de  la  grand  mer 
oceane.     Paris,   by   Vascosan,    1556;   fol., 
5  +  135  11.     (Private  Libr.,  Providence.) 

We  cannot  recollect  where  we  have  seen 
that  Poleur  had  been  Francis  I's  valet-de- 
chambre. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  34! 

2O8.     REISCH  (GREGORT1)—"   MARGARITA       PHILOSO- 

PHiCA,  rationalis,  Moralis  philofophiae  principia  duo- 
decim  libris  dialogice  complectens,  olim  ab  ipfo  autore 
recognita,  nuper  autem  ab  Orontio  Fineo,  Delphinate  caf- 
tigata  et  aucta,  vna  cum  appendicibus  itidem  emen- 
datis,  et  quamplurimis  additionibus  et  figuris  ab  eodem 
infignitis.  Quorum  omnium  copiofus  index  verfa  con- 
tinetur  pagella.  Virefcit  vulnere  virtus.  Eafileae  Hen- 
ricus  Petrus  excudebat  impenjis  Conradi  Refchii  Anno  M.D. 
XXXV.  4. 

"  Hirfch  .  Millen  .  n  .  p.  56  .  Bologn.  Crev.  n  .  p.  54 .  EibL 
Schw.  iun."  (PANZER*.) 

"  E*  certo  che  in  tina  Cart  a  fin  dal  1535,  impressa  in  Basilea,  si  vede 
Paria  a  24  .  o  25  gradi  di  Latitudine  Australe.  (Margar  .  Philos  .  p  . 

I534)-"  (CANOVAI3.) 

This  map  bears  the  following  title : 

TYPVS   vNiverfalis   terrae,    IVXTA   MODER- 
norvm  DISTINCTIONEM   ET  EXTENSIONEM  PER 

REGNA  ET   PROVINCIAS. 

And  this  inscription : 

paria  feu  prijilia. 

It  seems  that  there  is  in  the  editions  of  the  Margarita 
published  after  1512,  a  Declaratio  Speculi  orbis  compositi 
a  Gualtero  Lud.  canonico  Deodatensi,  which  can  only  be 
an  extract  from  our  No.  49,  as  we  have  since  ascertained 
that  it  does  not  contain  the  passage  relating  to  America, 
which  we  mention.  M.  D'Avezac  cites4  concerning 
Walter  Ludd's  works  and  supposed  editions  of  other 
cosmographers,  Oberlin5,  Gravier5  and  Beaupre7. 

1  Not  "  Georges,"  as  we  wrote  it,  supra,  8  Notice  de  la   Grammatka  figurata   dc 

p.  144.  PAi/csius,  af>.  [MILLIN]  Magastn  Encyclo- 

a  Annalcs    Typograph.,  Vol.  vi,  p.  308,  pedique,  for  1799,  Vol.  v,  pp.  323-7. 

No.  1033.  8  Hi  stair  e  de  la  -ville  et  de  Farrmdiut- 

*  Viaggl  (T America  Vespucci,  p.  185,  note,  meat  de  Saint-Die  ;  Epinal,  8vo,  1836,  pp. 

*  Projection  des   Cartes  de  Geographic,  p.  202—9. 

52,  note.  '  BEAUPRE,  loc.  cit.,  pp.  59-87. 


342  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

C?  C.  209.     VADIANUS  (J.)— Within  an  elegant  border: 

$+    EPITOME   ||   TOPOGRAPHICA   ||  TOTIUS 

ORBIS?  ||  conferes  ad  ea  potiflimu  lo-||ca,  quoru  paflim  Euan- 
gelifte  ||  &  Apoftoli  memnere.  ||  Cum  elencho  au£r.o.  ||  Per 
lochimum  Vadianum  ||  Medicum.  ||  Acceflit  peregrinatio  Petri 
et  ||  Pauli  Apoftoloru  cum  ra-  j|  tione  temporum  ||  Per  Erafmum 
Roterod.  ||  cum  Priuilegio.  ||  I.  G.  1535.  || 

Colophon  : 

Antuerpie  apud  loan.  Grapheum  ||  anno.  M.D.XXXV. 

*„,*  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf  -f-  three  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves 
-\-  two  hundred  and  twenty  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Paris.) 


See,  on  fol.  208,  the  chapter:  Insult  Qceani  pr<ecip. 

Direct  references:  (  MAITTAJRE,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  v,  Part  n,  page  306. 
(  PANZER,  Annalcs   Tyfogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  23,  No.  207. 


2IO.     PTOLEMT-SERrETUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

CLAVDII  PTOLEiiMAEi 

ALEXANDRINI  ||  GEOGRAPHICAE    ENAR-  || 

RATIONIS  ||  LIBBRI  OCTO.  ||  EX     BILIBALDI     PIRCK- 

EYMHERI||  tralationo,  fed  ad  Graeca  &  prifca 
exemplaria  a  Mi- 1|  chaele  Villanouano  iam 
primiim  recogniti  ||  Adieda  infuper  ab  eo- 
dem  fcholia,  ||  quibufexoleta  urbium  no/ 1| 
mina  adnoftri  fecu  ||  li  more  expo  ||  nun- 

tUF.   ||    QVINQVAGINTA     ILLAE     QVOQVE      CVM    || 

ueterum  turn  recentium  tabula  adneftuntur  varijo;  \\  incolen- 
tium  ritus  &  mores  \\  explicantur.  || 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  343 

Woodcut,  with  the  words  VSVS  ME  GENVIT ;  then  :  *  53  5« 

LVGDVNI    ||    EX     OFFICINA     MELCHIORIS     ET  || 
GASPARIS    TRECHSEL    FRATRVM.  ||  M.D.XXXV.  || 
Verso  of  the  title-page  : 
MICHAEL  VILLANOVANVS  ||  LECTORIS.  ||  AMPLIS- 

SIMO    DOMINO  ||  Sebaftiano    epifcopo    Brixi- 
nenfi,  Bibaldus  ||  Pirckeymherus.  || 

*^*  Folio ;  title  one  leaf  +  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  pages  -j- 
one  blank  leaf  +  fifty  folioed  leaves  for  maps,  viz. :  ten  for 
Europe,  four  for  Africa,  twelve  for  Asia,  one  for  hemisphere. 
On  the  obverse  of  folio  28,  which  treats :  OCEANI  OCCIDEN- 
TALIS  SEU  ThRRAE  NOVAE  TABULA,  there  is  a  rude  map,  where 
on  the  western  part,  between  N.  L.  50°  and  30°,  are  laid  down 

FARIAS,    ISABELLA    INSVL,    IAMAIQUA,  SPAG    NOHA    [j/V].        Under 

the  latitude  line  of  25°  N.  there  is  a  label  in  small  black 
letter:  "  Spagnolia  que  et  Offun  [?]  dicit  gignit  aur'  mastice, 
aloen,  porcellanam,  canellam  et  zinaber'  Latitudo  insule  4.  40 
milliaria  longitudo  8  80  milliaria.  Et  inuenta  est  per  Chris- 
tophorii  Columbu  laniien  Capitaneum  Regis  Castilie  an  domini 
1492.  Aadle  loco  panis  vesaint  serpentibus  maximis  et  radi- 
cibus  dulcibus  sapore  castanear'  presetentibus.  Under  the 
equator,  and  to  the  right  of  5°  S.  L.  there  is  another  inscrip 
tion,  likewise  in  rude  black  letter :  Hec  terraann  adiacentib9 
insulis  inuenta  est  p'  Cristoferum  Columbum  ianuensem  ex 
mandate  Regio  Castelle."  Beneath  this,  to  the  left,  in  large 
Roman  capitals  TERRA  NOVA.  Opposite  these  words,  to 
the  right,  a  rude  woodcut  of  savages,  and  a  wild  animal  re 
sembling  a  she-panther,  with  a  black  letter  inscription  under 
neath,  beginning  :  Reperitur  hie  anial,  &c.  Folio  50  contains 
the  last  map,  headed  in  rude  woodcut  engraving :  ORBIS  .  TYPVS  . 

VNIVERSALIS  .  IVXTA   .  HYD < OGRAPHORUM   .  TRADI  I  IONEM   .   EXAC- 

TISSIME  .  DEPICTA  .  1522  .  L  .  F.  On  the  west  opposite  40° 
N.  L.  ifabella,  a  little  further  to  the  south  fpagnola.  Opposite 
15°  S.  L.  Batoia  (sic),  to  the  right  of  this  Cambales.  Below 
in  large  black  letter  iclltt^ttCflU  The  remainder  of  this 
splendid  volume  is  ended  by  :  INDEX  PTOLEMAEI  COPIO- 
SISSIMVS,  &c.  Beneath,  the  same  woodcut  as  on  the  grand  title- 
page.  Register  A-F  in  sixes,  F  in  seven,  with  Errata  on  the 
recto  of  last  leaf;  verso  blank.  (As  far  as  we  can  recollect, 
this  map  is  identical  with  the  mappamund  in  the  Ptolemy 
of  1522.)  (British  Museum.) 


344 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 


1  535*  For  details  concerning  the  life,  works  and  martyrdom 
=5—5—5=  of  Michael  Servetus,  born  at  Villanueva  in  Aragon,  in 
1509',  or  at  Tudella,  in  1511%  or  at  Tarragona',  and 
burnt  alive,  at  the  instigation  of  John  Calvin,  at  Geneva, 
October  2yth,  1553,  we  refer  the  reader  to  the  works 
and  dissertations  of  De  la  Roche4,  Struvius5,  Chauffe- 
pie3,  D'Artigny2,  Alwoerden1,  Sandius6,  Bock7,  Seelen8, 
Benson9,  Maty10,  Boysen",  Mosheim12,  Wigand13,  Gib 
bon14,  Wright15,  Sigmond16,  Drammond17,  Romey18, 
Saisset19,  de  Valayre20,  Galiffe2',  Rilliet",  Schade23,  and  to 
Calvin's  own  defence24,  which  never  did,  and  never  can, 
exculpate  him  from  his  complicity  in  this  dreadful  crime. 
Our  readers  are  aware  that  one  of  the  charges  brought 
against  Servetus,  and  which  led  to  the  immolation  of 
that  unfortunate  man  bv  a  set  of  fiendish  fanatics,  whose 


1  MICHEL   DE   LA    ROCHE,    Bibliotheque 
Angloise;  Amsterd.,  i8mo,  1717-28,  Vol. 
Ii}  p    79  5   ALWOERDEN,  Histor.  Mich.  Ser- 
veti  .   .   .   Dissertatione  cxposita ;  Helmst., 
4to,  1727;   NICERON,  Memoires,  Vol.   xi, 
p.  224. 

2  D'ARTIGNY,  Nouveaux  Memoires,  Vol. 
n,  p.  56. 

3  CHAUFFEPIE,  art.  Servet,  note  A. 

4  he.  cit.,  Vol.  V,  pp.   5-22,  and   Mi- 
moires  of  Literature  ;   Lond.,  8vo,  1722. 

5  Biblioth.    Hhtor.     Lift.  ;     lena,    8vo, 
1763,  Vol.  in,  p.  1828. 

6  Bibliothcca    Anti-Trinitariorum,    &c.  ; 
Amsterdam,  8vo,  1684,  pp.  6-15. 

T  Historia  Antitrinitariorum  ;  Leipzig, 
8vo,  1774-76,  Vol.  II,  p.  322,  sq. 

8  Selecta    Litteraria  ;     Lubeck,    I2mo, 
1726,  N.  n,  pp.  52-76. 

9  Brief  Account   of  the  persecution  and 
burning  of  Servetus  for  an  heretic  $   Lond., 
8vo,  1743. 

10  Authentic    Memoirs    of    the    Life    of 
Richard   Mead,    M.  D.  ;     London,    8vo, 

1755- 

11  Historia  Mich.   Serveti,   Disscrtatione 

enarrata;  Vitemb.,  410,  1712 

13  Anderivcitigcr  Versuch  einer  vollstan- 
digen  und  unpartheyischen  Kctxcrgcschichte  ,• 
Helmst.,  410,  1748. 

13  De  Servetistno  s.  de  Antitrinitariis ; 
Ratisbon,  8vo,  1575. 


14  Miscellaneous  Works  (Lond,,  8vo, 
1814),  Vol.  v,  p.  400  sq. 

14  An  Apology  for  Servetus ;  Wisbech., 
8vo,  1806. 

16  The  Unnoticed  Theories  of  Servetus,  a 
Dissertation  addressed  to  the  Medical  Society 
of  Stockholm  ;  Lond.,  8vo,  1826. 

1T  The  Life  of  Michael  Scr-vctus,  the 
Spanish  Physician,  "who,  for  the  alleged 
crime  of  Heresy,  'was  entrapped,  imprisoned 
and  burned  by  John  Calvin,  in  the  city  of 
Geneva,  Oct.  27,  1553;  Lond.,  I2mo, 
1830,  reprinted  1848,  I2mo. 

18  Hommes  et  Chases  de   Divers    Temps  ; 
Paris,  I2mo,  1864,  pp.  121  to  171. 

19  Melanges    d'Histoire,    de    Morale     et 
de   Critique ;   Paris,   I2mo,    1859,  pp.   119 
to  227. 

40  Fragment  Historique  sur  Michel  Ser- 
•vet  (Legcndes  et  Ckroniqucs  Suisses)  ;  Paris, 
I2mo,  1842. 

21  Notices  Genealogiques  sur  les  families 
gcne-voises;  Geneve,  8vo,  1831-1836. 

Proces  Criminel  Intents  a  Geneve,  en 
1553,  centre  Michel  Servet,  redigee  d'apres 
les  Documents  Originaux ;  Geneva,  I2mo, 
1844. 

28  Etudes  sur  le  proces  de  Servet ;  Stras- 
burg,  8vo,  1853. 

24  Defensio  orthodoxa  fidei  de  sacra  Tri- 
nitate,  contra  prodig'wsas  errores  Michaelit 
Serveti  Hispani :  ubi  ostenditur  htercticos 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  345 

foul  memory  should  be  held  in  abhorrence  for  ever,  was     1535. 
a  passage  from  the  present  edition  of  Ptolemy,  stating  - 
that  Palestine  was  not  such  a  fertile  country  as  people 
generally  believed,  since  modern  travellers  related  that 
it  was  entirely  barren.     We  have  shown,  after  Mosheim 
(supra,  page  2O225),  that  the  incriminated  passage  was 
already  in  the  Ptolemy  of  1522.     Besides,  it  was  omitted 
in  the  second  edition  which  Servetus  published  in  1541 
(infra) . 

"J'ai  deja  observe  que  Gomara  fait  allusion  aux  editions  de  Servet 
de  1535  et  1541.  Dans  la  premiere  on  trouve  :  '  Iterum  Colonus 
reversus  Continentem  et  alias  quam  plurimas  insulas  adinvenit  quibus 
nunc  Hispani  felicissime  dominantur.  Toto  itaque  quod  ajunt  aber 
rant  coelo  qui  hunc  continentem  Americam  nuncupari  contendunt, 
cum  Americus  multo  post  Columbum  eamdem  terrain  adierit,  nee  cum 
Hispanis  Hie,  sed  cum  Portugallensibus  ut  suas  merces  commutaret,  eo 
se  contulit.'  Cette  note  severe  et  en  partie  injuste,  n'a  pas  empeche 
1'editeur  d'ajouter  a  son  edition  la  carte  de  1522  qui  offre  en  grands 
caracteres  le  nom  d'Amerique." 

(HUMBOLDT29.) 

Direct  references:  f  RAIDEL,  Comment,  de  Claud.  Ptol.  Geogr.,  page  61. 
-j    FABRICIUS,  Biblioth.  Graca,  Vol.  v,  page  276. 
|   PANZER",  Annaks  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  365,  No.  776. 
HOFFMANN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  in,  page  319. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  955. 
Labanoff  Catalogue,  page  8,  No.  2,3. 


jure  gladii  coercendos  esse,  &  nominatim  de  or  Philadelphia,  and  which  we  were  com- 

homine  hoc  tarn  impio  juste  &  tnerito  sump-  pelled   to   go  to  Boston    to  consult.      We 

turn  Gene-vie  fuisse  supplicium,  per  jfoannem  should     not    mention    this    circumstance, 

Cal-vinum ;  Oliva  8vo,  1554.  which    in    other    communities    will    cer- 

26  See,  also,  an  elaborate  article  in  the  tainly  seem   trivial,   but  for   a    desire    on 
Neva  Memoirs  of  Literature;  Lond.,  8vo,  our  part  to  state,  that  if  we  have  among 
1725—7,  Vol.  I,  p.  26,  sq.  us  book  collectors   whose   selfishness  is  a 

J"  Examcn    Critique,   Vol.    IV,    p.    137,  scandal  and  a  disgrace,  we  can  also  boast 

note.  of  a  few  bibliophiles  who  delight  in  plac- 

27  Thanks  to  the  Rev.  S.  R.  JOHNSON,  ing  within  the  reach  of  those  who  need 
Professor  in  the  N.  Y.  General  Theolog-  them  all  the  resources  at  their  command, 
ical  Seminary,  we   have   at  last  obtained  Dr.  Johnson  is  one  of  these,  and  we  take 
the  loan   of  a   copy   of  Panzer's   Annales  this  method  to  acknowledge  the  favor  re- 
Typografhici :  a  work  we  were  unable  to  ceived    at   his   hands,   and   to   express  our 
purchase,    hire   or  borrow    in    New    York  sincere  gratitude. 

44 


346  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I535*  211.    STEINHOWEL  (?)—  Within  an  ornamented  border,  with 

—  medallions  in  woodcuts : 


6ung  tmb  genteljne  anjena,e.  i$onn|  latter  2$ettt  Ijetfont- 
nten  i  Simtanten  ||  8annbeni@tanbei($tygenfdjaffteni||  Ijif= 
town  ttjefen  i  manicr  i  ftttcu  i  an  ||  bnb  a&fjang.  9lnffben 
a,Ianunir||bia,ften  §iftariei£n  att  ©la  ||  fe  tmb 


granifeuforti  am  $letyni  ||  Sei     rtftiau 

In  fine  : 

M.D.XXXV.     Im  Augustmen. 


*£  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -\-  five  unnumbered   preliminary  leaves, 
text  i-cxxxvn  numbered  leaves.     Woodcut  by  H.  S.  Benham1. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of"  cm  : 

$ott  America  bent  bterbten  c^e^t  ber  Se(t  1 1|  5(nno 
.  cccc  xcbii .  erfnnben.H 

We  are  of  impression  that  the  present  is  a  later  edi 
tion  of  Henrich  Steinhowel's  Chronicle,  of  which  the 
Kloss  Catalogue2  mentions  one  dated  Frankfort,  1531. 

Direct  reference:  '  GRAESSE,  Vol.  II,  page  140. 

212.  LORITZ  OR  GLAREANUS— "  De  Geographia  liber 
unus,  ab  ipfo  autore  iam  tertio  recognitus.  Apud  Fri- 
burgium  Brifgoiae  An.  M.D.XXXF1.  Dicavit  autor  Joanni 
a  Lafco  Poloniae  baroni.  In  fine :  Apud  Friburgum 
Erijgoicum  Anno.  M.D.XXXFI.  Excudebat  Joannes  Faber 
Emmeus  Juliacenjis.  4. 

"  Hirfch  Millen.  in.  p.  52.  Bib  I.  Dilherr." 

(PANZER3.) 


'J  Page  291,  No.  4049.          •'  Annahs  Typogr,,  Vol.  VII,  p.  61,  No. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  347 

213.     TRITHEMUS  (J.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  C  3  6. 

IOANNIS    TRIiiTHEMii—^ 

ABBATIS  SPANHE||menfisEpiftolarum 
familiarum  libri  duo  ad  diver  ||  fos  Ger 
manise  Principes,  Epifcopos,  ac  eru  ||  di- 
tione  praeftantes  uiros,  quorum  ||  Catalogus 
fubie&us  eft.  || 

Woodcut  representing  two  heads,  then  : 

CAVTVM  EST  PVBLICO  EDICTO|| 

Caefarea  Maieftatis,  ne  quis  alius  impune 
intra  ||  quatuor  annos  imprimat.  ||  HAGA- 
NOAE  EX  OFFICINAHPetri  Brubachij, 


*+*  4-to,  title   one   leaf-}-  seven  unnumbered  leaves  -j-  three  hun 
dred  and  forty-four  pages. 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 

Whatever  may  be  the  merits  of  this  laborious  Bene 
dictine  (born  in  1462,  died  in  1516  or  I5I91),  as  a  pro 
lific  describer  of  books  which  existed  only  in  his  imagin 
ation,  or  else  which  were  destroyed  immediately  after 
his  elaborate  description  of  them,  for  no  traces  have 
been  seen  since,  he  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  this  Biblio 
theca  only  on  account  of  a  letter,  dated  August  I2th, 
1507,  and  addressed  to  Jo.  Valdicus  Monapius,  wherein 
the  "  uncritical"  Spanheim  abbot  complains  that  he  is 
too  poor  to  purchase  a  map  (probably  Ruysch's)  which 
cost  at  Worms  as  much  as  forty  florins.  The  passage 
is  on  page  296,  and  as  follows: 

1  SPONDE'S    continuation    of    Baronius'     LET,  Jugcmcns  des  Savant,  Vol.  II,  page 
Annalcs,  Anno  1499,  n<   XI>  aPut^  BAIL-      24,  note  1. 


C'JO 


348  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

'  "Comparavi  autem  mihi  ante  paucos  dies  pro  acre  modico,  sphaeram 
__  orbis  pulchram,  in  quantitate  parva  nuper  Argentina^  impressam, 
simul  et  in  magna  dispositione  globum  terrae  in  piano  expansum  cum 
Insulis  et  Regionibus  noviter  ab  Americo  Vesputio  Hispano  inventis 
in  Mari  Occidental},  ac  versus  Meridien  ad  Parallelum  ferme  deci- 
muma  (quadragesimum)." 

Kloss'  annotation3  cc  Ed.  unica"  can  only  refer  to  a 
separate  edition  of  those  valuable  Epistles,  as  they  are 
included  in  the  Opera  historica,  Franco/.,  1601,  fol4. 


Direct  references:  f  MAITTAIRE,  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  n,  Part  II,  page  853. 
PANZER  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vn,  page  115. 
MORERI,  Dictionnaire,  Vol.  Till,  page  230. 
CANCELLIERI,  Dissertation!,  page  46, 
BRUNET,  Vol.  vi,  No.  18732. 
CANOVAI,  Piaggi,  page  299. 

LELEWEL,  G'eogr.  du  Moycn-Agc,  Vol.  II,  page  145,  note. 
Bodleian  Catalogue,  Vol.  in,  page  669. 


214..    "  PETRI   MARTYRIS  AB  ANGLERIA  de  rebus 
Oceanicis  et  de  orbe  novo  decades.     Lut.     Paris.  1536. 

In-fol."          (TERNAUX8.) 

We  failed  to  discover  other  mentions  of  this  edition 
than  those  to  be  found  in  Graesse6,  who  copies  Brunet, 
and  in  Brunet7,  who  copies  Ternaux.  The  British 
Museum,  Mazarine  and  Imperial  Libraries  at  Paris, 
as  well  as  the  private  collections  in  this  country,  all  so 
rich,  have  been  duly  ransacked,  but  such  an  edition 
could  not  be  found. 


a  "  Parallelum    decimum    doit    designer  6  Tresor,  Vol.  I,  p.  130. 

50°  d'apres  1'usage,  bien  connu  par  la  lettre  '  Manuel,  Vol.  I,  col.  293. 

de  Toscanelli,  de  compter  5°  pour  chaque  *  The  translation  of  Oviedo,  by  POLEUR, 

intervalle." — D'AVEZAC.  mentioned    by  Ternaux  (Xo.  47),    under 

3  Catalogue,  page  258,  No.  3628.  the  date  051536,  is  erroneously  dated.    It 

4  Vossius,  de  Latin  Histor.,  page  644.  was  printed  at  Paris  by  Vascosan  in  1556. 
6  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  No.  47  bit.  (See,  supra,  p.  340,  note  9.) 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  349 

2I5«      MAXIMILIAN   OF    TRANSYLVANIA  &   PIGAFETTA.         I 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

IL  VIAGGIO||FATTO  DA  GLI  SPA  ||  GNIVO- 

LIA  ||  TORNO  A'L  ||  MONDO.  ||  Con   Gratia  per 

Anni  xmi.||MDXXXVI.|| 

*.,,*  410,  sine  loco  (but  supposed  to  have  been  printed  at  Venice), 
title  one  leaf,  +  three  preliminary  leaves,  +  forty-seven  un 
numbered  leaves.  On  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf,  a  short  vocab 
ulary  of  the  language  of  Brazil.  No  water-mark. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  contains  an  Italian  translation  of  the  two 
accounts  of  Magellan's  voyage  already  described  (supra, 
Nos.  122  and  134).  The  version  of  Pigafetta's  narra 
tion  is  taken  from  Fabre's  French  translation,  which 
itself  was  made  from  the  Italian.  If  Pigafetta's  account 
was  originally  written  in  French,  how  is  it  that  Fabre 
had  to  copy  an  Italian  original  ?  If  it  was  originally 
written  in  Italian,  how  is  it  that  the  present  translation 
was  made  from  the  French  ? 

"  Je  m'etais  d'abord  fie  a  Ramusio,  qui  s'exprime  a  faire  croire  que 
c'est  lui  qui  le  premier  avait  songe  a  traduire  en  italien  /' Extrait  du 
•voyage  de  Pigafetta  fait  par  Fabre,  et  la  lettre  de  Maximilien  Tran- 
silvain ;  mais  j'ai  trouve  depuis  que  Ranusio  n'a  fait  que  copier  une 
traduction  imprimee  a  Venise  en  1536  [the  above]. 

"  II  n'a  change  que  fort  peu  de  mots.  II  a  abrege  le  discours  pre- 
liminaire,  a  supprime  les  numeros  des  cent  quatorze  chapitres  dans 
lesquels  Fabre  avait  divise  1'ouvrage,  et  y  a  ajoute  les  titres  des  cha 
pitres  dans  lesquels  il  1'a  divise  lui  meine.  II  en  a  meme  copie  les 
fautes  les  plus  grossieres  .  .  .  ." 

(AMORETTI1.) 

Direct  references:  f  Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  IX,  No.  3129. 

•|    Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  page  548. 

I    Bibliotheca  Broivniatia,  page  19,  No.  67. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2753. 

Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  z88. 

BRUNET,   Vol.   v,  col.    1167,  contains  also  a  sharp   but   merited 
reply  to  the  overrated  DIBDIN*. 


1  Premier  voyage  autour  du  Monde,  p.  xlv,  note.      "  See  Library  Companion,  p.  409. 


350  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1  5  3  ^*  2  I  6.     FLAMINIUS  (JOHN  ANTHONY)—"  Epiftok  ad 

— '  lum  III.  Pont.  Max.  initio  Pontificatus  .  Eiufdem  belli 

recentis  Aphricani  defcriptio  ad  Ampliff.  P.  Antonium 
Puccium  Sanctorum  Quatuor  Cardinalem  .  Eiufdem  de 
quibufdam  memorabilibus  novi  Orbis  nuper  ad  nos 
tranfmiffis  ad  eundem  .  Eiufdem  Conflictus  ille  Pannoni- 
cus  cum  Turcis,  in  quo  Pannoniae  rex  interiit.  In  fine: 
Bononiae  ap  .  Vincent .  Bonardum  Parmen  .  et  Marc.  Anto 
nium  Carpen  .Jocios  .  Anno  Jalutis  M .  D  .  XXXVI.  Men/is 
Martii .  4. 

"  Bibl.  Sen.  Lipf." 

(PANZER*.) 

This  Flaminius  must  not  be  mistaken  for  the  John 
Flaminius  whose  life  and  death  are  related  in  so  touch 
ing  a  manner  by  Valerianus2.  The  reader  will  find  a 
full  account  of  John  Anthony  Flaminius  (/.  e.  Zarrabini 
de  Colignola,  1464-1536),  in  Vossius5,  Fabricius4  and 
Tiraboschi5.  We  suppose  that  this  epistle  de  quibusdam 
in  Novo  Orbe,  is  also  to  be  found  in  Capponi's  edition6 
of  Flaminius'  Letters. 

217.  ZIEGLER  (JAMES)— "  Terrae  fanffae,  quam  PalaeJ- 
tinam  nominant,  Sytiae,  Arabiae^  Aegypti  et  Schondiae  doc- 
tiffima  dejcriptio,  una  cum  fingulis  tabulis  earundem  regionum 
typographies  (lege  topographicis)  authore  IACOBO  ZIEG- 
LERO,  Landavo-Bavaro.  Holmiae  plane  regiae  urbis  cala- 
mitoffima  clades^  ab  eodem,  defcripta.  Terrae  Janftae  altera 
defcriptio,  iuxta  ordinem  alphabeti,  quae  ad  Jcripturam 
proxime  direfla  <?/?,  utilijjima  etiam  plebeio  lecJori^  authore 


1  Annalcs  Typogr.,  Vol.  ix,  p.  415,  No.  4  Bibliotheca  Med.   &  Infm.  Lot.  Lib. 

164.  VI,  p.  501. 

a  de  Litterator.  Infelicitatc,  Lib.  i,  p.  23.  8  Storia  de  la  Let.  Ital.,  Vol.  vn,  p.  1408. 

8  de  Historicis  Latinis,  p.  68 a.  *  Efist.  Fami Harts;  Bologna,  410,  1744. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  351 

VVOLFGANGO   vvEissENBVRGio,  pridem  Academiae  Eafili-    I  53"' 
en/is  Mathematico.     Index  totius  operis  locupletijfimus^  qui  - 

in  priori  editione  defiderabatur.  Elenchus,  quo  libro  et 
capite  Bibliorum,  et  quoties  finguli  Palaeftinae  loci  continen- 
tur.  Argentorati,  apud  Vuendelinum  Richelium  1536. 

\in-f Olf\        (MEusEiA) 

See  the  chapter  relating  to  "  Schondia,"  and  our  No. 

170. 


2  I  8.     BROCARD  Gf  PETER  MARTYR— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
DESCRI-  ||  PTIO  TERRAE  SANCTAE  ||  exa&iflima,  autore  Bro- 

cardo    Mona- 1|  cho  libellus   diuinarum  fcriptura- 1|  rum  ftudiofis, 

multo  ||  vtiliffimus.  || 

De  Nouis  Infulis  nuper   repertis,  &   de  ||  moribus   incolarum 

earundem,  |]per  Petrum  Martyrem  ||  res  Ie6lu  digna.  || 

1  ANTVERPIAE  ||  In    sdibus    loannis    Steelfii  ||  Anno   a 

Chriftonato||M.D.XXXVI.|| 

Colophon  : 

Typis  loan  Graphei.  ||  M.D.XXXVI.  || 

*£*  Sm.  8vo  for  size,  signatures  in  fours,  title  one  leaf  -f-  twenty- 
eight  unnumbered  leaves,  then  the  de  insults  in  nineteen  un 
numbered  leaves,  on  the  verso  of  the  last  a  vignette,  with  the 
words  :  "10.  STEEL  sivs.  Concordia,  res  parue  crescunt." 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn  and  Providence.) 

A  copy  before  us,  in  all  other  respects  like  the  pres 
ent,  lacks  the  colophon. 

The  first  part  contains  only  an  account  of  a  journey 
to  the  Holy  Land  in  1232,  by  a  Dominican  monk,  of 
German  origin,  called  Brocard,  Brochard,  or  Brocardus, 
often  quoted  by  Danville.  The  second  part,  which 

1  GESNER,  Biblhthcca,  p.  388.  Catalog.  Libror.  rarior.  (ed.  1753),  p.  734; 

2  Biblioth    Histor.,   Vol.    I,    Part    u,  p.     BOECLER,  Bibliogr.  critica,  p.  571;    BAUR, 
95;   FREYTAG,  Analccta,  y.  1114;  VOGT,      Biblioth.  Lib.  Rar.  univcrs.,  Vol.  iv,  p.  323. 


3  <j  2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

begins   at    the   twenty-ninth    leaf,   is   the  extract  from 
Peter  Martyr,  described,  supra,  page  187,  No.  no. 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  98. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  19,  No.  66. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiuiana,  —  . 
RICH,  Supplement,  page  2. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  I,  col.  1270. 


219.  5^c«o  BOSCO  (GIOVANNI  £>/)—"  Sphera  Volgare 
novamente  tradotta  con  molte  notande  additioni  di 
Geometria,  Cofmographia,  Arte  Navigatoria,  et  Stereo- 
metria,  Proportioni  et  Quantita  delli  Elementi,  Dif- 
tanze,  Grandeze,  et  Novimenti  di  tutte  li  Corpi  celefti, 
cofe  certamente  rade  et  maravigliofe.  Auctore  M. 
Mauro  Fiorentino  Phonafco  et  Philopanareto,  curious 
woodcuts  (two  containing  a  globe  with  AMERICA).  4to, 
Venetiis,  B.  Zanetti,  1537.  Printed  f  ad  iftanzia  di  Gio- 
van  Orthega,  di  Carion  Burgenfe  Hifpano  comorante  in 
Firenze.'  No  doubt  this  Orthega  was  the  author  of 
the  arithmetical  Treatife  printed  at  Rome  in  1515^8 
Mauro  calls  him  a  mathematician" 

(LlBRI1.) 

It  is  evident  that  a  work  originally  written  in  the 
early  part  of  the  thirteenth  century  cannot  contain  any 
thing  on  America;  but  the  De  Sphera  of  Sacro-Bosco 
(i.  e.  John  Holy  wood,  Oxon.)  became  to  the  mathema 
ticians  and  geographers  of  the  century  following  the 
re-discovery  by  Columbus  an  inexhaustible  source  of 
commentaries,  some  of  which  certainly  contain  refer 
ences  to  the  oceanic  discoveries,  attributed,  especially 
by  the  Italian  commentators  to  Vespuccius.  The  above 
contains  only  a  woodcut,  but  Fr.  Giuntini's  Commen- 
taria  (chap,  in),  present  features  of  greater  interest  ; 
unfortunately  the  date  of  publication2  excludes  the 
work  from  our  Bibliotheca. 

1  Catalogue  for   1861,  No.  6412.          'l  Lyons,  1578,  8vo. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  353 

2  2O.     GIUSTINIANI  (AUG.}— Recto  of  the  frst  leaf:  *  537 


ANNALI  CON  LA  LORO  COPIOSA 
TAVOLA  ||  della  Eccelfa  &  Illuftriffima 
Republi.  di  Genoa,  da  fideli  &  approuati 
Scrit/  ||  tori,  per  el  Reueredo  Monfignore 
Agoftino  Giuftiniano  Genoefe  Vefcouo  di|| 
Nebio  accuratamente  racolti.  Opera  cer- 
tarnete  molto  laudeuole,  a  Stu/||diofi  affai 
comoda,  &  comrnunemente  a  tutti  vtilif- 
fima.  Facedo  per  ||  la  varieta  delle  opere 
chiaramente  conofcere,  quanto  fi.  deb  ||  ba 
da  tutti  riprouare  el  male,  &  conftante- 
mente  pro/ 1|  curare  el  bene  della  iiia  Re- 
publica.  ||  fr  £g  4  || 

Then  large  woodcut,  two  angels  supporting  the  arms  of  Genoa,  with 
the  inscription  AVREA  LIBERTAS  VEXILLVM  GENEVE. 

f  GENOA.  ||  fr  M.D.XXXVII.  <?  || 

Cum  gratia  t 


*  JOHN  STOEFFLER,  born  in  Suabia,  in  grapher.  We,  therefore,  suppose  that  there 
1452  (BAYLE),  or  in  1472  (D'AvEzAC,  may  be  a  map  or  some  passage  relating  to 
Projections  Geogr.,  p.  49),  died  in  1530  America  in  the  following  work  : 
(D'AvEzAC,  loc.  cit.),  or  at  Tubingue,  in  "  Cosmographies  aliquot  dcsctiptioncs  Jo. 
1522,  (Vossius,  de  MatAesi,  lib.  in,  p.  148),  Stoefleri  justtngensis  mathematici  insignis  ; 
or  at  Blaubers,  in  1531  (MELCH.  ADAM,  de  sphtera  cosmografAica,  de  duplici  terra 
Vit.  Philos.y  p.  74),  of  the  plague  or  from  proiectione  in  planum,  hoc  est,  qua  ratione 
the  effect  of  a  shelf  which  struck  him  commodius  chartae  cosmographies,  quas  map- 
on  the  head,  in  accordance  with  his  own  pas  mundl  vacant,  designari  queant,  Omnia 
prediction  (CALVISIUS,  ap.  BAYLE),  was  recens  data  per  j?o.  Dryandrum.  Marpurg. 
not  only  a  mathematician,  astronomer  and  Euch.  Cervicornus,  1537." 
astrologist,  but  also  a  remarkable  cosmo- 

45 


354  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

r  fj  n  0         Colophon  : 

=  £*  Finifcono  li  annali  della  Inclita  Citta 
di  Genoa  co  diligen  ||  cia,  &  opera  del 
nobile  Laurentio  Lomellino  forba,  ftapati  || 
in  la  detta  citta  Lanno  delPincarnacione 
del  noftro  Si/  1|  gnore.  M.D.XXXVII.  Et 
nono  della  reforma  ||  ta  Liberta.  Regnante 
el  quinto  Duce.  Per  ||  Antonio  Bellono 
Taurinefe  con  gratia  ||  &  priuilegio  della 
eccelfa  Re/  1|  publica  di  Genoa,  a  di  ||  xviii. 
de  Mazzo. 


%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves  +  two  hun 
dred  and  eighty-two  numbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  College  Library.) 

These  are  the  well-known  annals  of  the  Republic  of 
Genoa  by  Giustiniani,  the  editor  of  the  polyglot 
Psalter  (No.  88  bis].  The  work  contains  on  fol.  ccxlix 
an  interesting  account  of  Columbus,  and  a  mention  of 
the  bequest  supposed  to  have  been  made  by  the  Ad 
miral  "all*  ufficio  di.  S.  Georgia  la  decima  parte"  of  what 
he  owned,  for  the  erection  of  an  hospital,  we  believe. 
The  passage  is  sometimes  cited  to  impart  an  air  of 
authenticity  to  the  codicil,  made  according  to  military 
usage,  and  written  on  a  blank  leaf  of  a  breviary,  said  to 
have  been  presented  to  Columbus  by  Alexander  VI, 
and  found  afterwards  in  the  Corsini  library  at  Rome,  or 
picked  up  in  a  book-stall,  and  purchased  for  a  few 
cents1. 

As  to  the  Annals,  Bayle  quotes  Francesco  Zazzera1, 
to  prove  that  the  manuscript  was  tampered  with  by  the 

1  Notes  on  Columbus,  p.  160.      a  apud  MICH.  JUSTINIANI,  gli  Scrittori  Ligur.,  p.  19. 


Eibllotheca  Americana.  355 

editor   or  publisher.      Some   extracts   and    translations    1537' 
into  French  will  be  found  in  one  of  the  histories  of  = 

Lewis  XII,  published  by  Theodore  Godefroy3. 

Direct  references :  f  Jovius,  Elogia  Doctor,  viror.,  cap.  cxxx. 

-I   Vossius,  de  Histor.  Latin.,  lib.  in,  page  68 1. 
I   HAYM,  Biblioteca  Italiana,  Vol.  i,  page  152. 
FONTANINI,  Bibliot.  delf  Eloquenxa  itat.,  Vol.  II,  page  232. 
CANCELLIERI,  Dissertazioni,  page  139. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  u,  col.  1618. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  Part  II,  page  211. 
Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  V,  page  201. 

221.     BORDONE  (B.)— Within  a  wide  ornamented  border: 

ISOLARIOiiDI    BENE 
DETTO  II  BORDONE  NEL  QVALI 

SI  ||  RAGIONA  DI  TVTTE  LE  ISOLE  ||  Del  mondo, 

con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &||  moderni,  hiftorie, 
fanole,  &  modi  ||  del  loro  viuere,  &  in  qual 
parte  ||  del  mare  ftanno,  &  in  qual  ||  parallelo 
&  clima||giaciono.||RICORRETTO  ET 
DI  ||  NVOVO  RISTAMPATO  ||  con  la  gionta  del 
Monte  ||  del  Oro  nouamente  ||  ritrouato.  || 

Then  vignette,  and  IN  VENETIA. 

Colophon  : 

Stampato  in  Venetia  per  Francesco  di 
Leno.  || 

%.*  Folio,  sinne  anno,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves  + 
seventy-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  suppose  the  above  to  be  the  edition  mentioned 
by  Rich4,  with  the  following  note : 

"  Our  readers  are  aware  that  this  learned     ton's,  and  Jean  de  Saint-Gelais'  Histoiret 
jurist   published    at   Paris,    between    1615     de  Louis  XII. 
and  1 622,  Claude  de  Seyssel's,  Jean  d1  Au-         4  Bibliotheca  Americana  Vetus,  No.  1 9. 


356  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

"This  edition  was  probably  published  before  1540.  At  the  end 
is  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  the  Prefetto  of  New  Spain,  giving  an  ac- 
count  of  the  conquest  of  Peru,  by  Pizarro,  in  1533.  At  p.  10  is  a 
plan  of  the  great  city  of  Temistitan  (Mexico)." 

Direct  references:  f  Mapotec  a  Colombiana,  No.  10. 

-(  Stevens,''  American  Bibliographer,  page  41. 
(  BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  1112. 


222.  NUNEZ  (PEDRO)—"  Tratado  da  Sfera,  com  a  Theo- 
rica  do  Sol,  &  da  Lua,  e  o  primeiro  libro  da  Geografia  de 
Claudio  Ptolomeo  Alexandrine  \_aumentados  con  muchas  ano- 
taciones  y  figuras  para  Ju  mas  facil  inteligencial~\  Hunc 
Nonnius  [/.  e.  the  above  Nunez],  annotationefque  & 
figuras  adjunxit.  Simul  editus  eft  : 

"  Urn  \_dos*~\  Tratado  em  defenjam  da  Cart  a  de  mar  ear 
com  o  regimiento  da  altura  [en  los  cuales  Je  declaran  todas 
las  principals  dudas  de  la  nauegacion^  con  las  tablas  del 
movimiento  deljol  yju  declination,  y  el  regimiento  de  la  al 
tura  ;  aft  al  medio  dia,  como  en  los  otros  (tempos]  Olifipone 
apud  Germanum  Gallardum  1537,  in  folio." 

(  ANTONIO".) 

Black  letter,  pp.  26.     (RICHS.) 

"  El  celebre  Martin  Alfonso  de  Sousa,  propuso  a  Nunez  varias 
dudas  sobre  la  nauegacion,  de  resultas  de  la  que  habia  hecho  a  la 
India  por  los  mares  del  sur ;  y  la  satisfaccion  que  dio  a  ellas  la  abrio 
campo  para  examinar  los  principios  cientificos  de  la  nautica  y  refutar 
los  errores  en  que  se  incurria,  por  la  ignorancia  de  los  navegantes. 
Con  este  objeto  habia  escrito  y  publicado  en  1537,  dedicandolo  al 
Infante  D.  Luis."  (NAVARRETE1.) 

For  a  magnificent  and  true  eulogium  on  Nunez,  the 
greatest  of  the  Portuguese  mathematicians  (born  in 
1492,  died  in  1577),  the  teacher  of  Don  Sebastian  of 


1  Dissertation   sobre    la    Historia   de    la         *  Biblioth.  Hisf.  Nova,  Vol.  u,  p.  2 
Nautica,  pp.  171-174.  s  Biblioth.  Americana  Fetus,  No.  26. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


357 


Portugal,  and  the  precursor  of  Newton  (as  regards  the     1537. 
theory  of  light  and  colors,  in  the  De  Crepusculis),  see  _ 
Navarrete1,  Barbosa  y  Machado4,  Stockier5,  Montucla6, 
and  Teissier7.     M.  Denis  says  that  "  le  P.  Simon  de  Vas- 
concellos  lui  attribue  un  Roteiro  do  Brasil,  qui  n'a  jamais 
etc  public." 


223.     HUTTICH-GRrNAEUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

NOVVS  ORBIS  REGIO  n 

NVM     AC     INSVLARVM     VETERIBVS      INCOGNITA- 

RVM  ||  una  cum  tabula  cofmographica,  & 
aliquot  alijs  confimilis  ||  argument!  libellis, 
quorum  omnium  catalogus  ||  fequenti  pate- 
bit  pagina.  ||  His  acceffit  copiofus  rerum 
memorabilium  index. 


iv  rpiodft)  el/u. 
Then  printer's  mark,  and 

Nihil  arduum  fatis. 

ADIECTA    EST     HVIC     POSTREMAE     EDITIONI  || 

Nauigatio   Caroli  Caefaris  aufpicio  in  co- 
mi/  ||  tijs    Auguftanis    inftituta.*  ||  BASILEAE 

APVD     IO.     HERVAGIVM     MENSE  ||  MARTIO     ANNO 
M.  D.  XXXVII.  II 


*  Bibliotcca  Lusitania.  *  Anglice :  Like  No.  171,  with  the  ad- 

6  Ensaio  Aistor.   tobre  e  origcm  e  frogr.  dition  of  the  following  : 

dasmathcm.  em  Portugal;  Paris,  8vo,  1819.  "To  this  last  edition  is  added  the  navi- 

6  Histoiredes  Mathematiques(cA\t.  1756),  gation    undertaken    under  the    auspices  of 
Vol.  I,  p.  468.  the  Emperor  Charles. 

7  Eloges  des  Sea-vans,  Vol.  i,  p.  471.  "  Basle,  November,  1537." 


358  Bibliotheca  Americana, 
I  C  3  7 .         Colophon : 

===         BASILEAE  PER  IO  HERVAGIVM  MENSE  NOVEM- 

BRI.  ||  ANNO  M.  D.  XXXVI.  (stc)  \\ 

%.*  Folio,  title  one  leaf +  twenty-four  unnumbered  leaves  -f-  six 
hundred  pages  +  one  leaf  on  verso  of  which  the  printer's 
mark.  Mappemund  described  as  B,  supra,  page  294. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

In  addition  to  the  contents  of  the  early  editions,  this 
contains  the  letter  of  Maximilian  of  Transylvania,  from 
page  585  to  page  600. 

Direct  references  :  {  Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  XII.  No.  831. 
Bibliotheca  Broioniana,  page  19,  No.  69. 
Bibliotheca  Bar/oiviana,  page  14. 
Bibliotheca  Brcvoortiana,  — . 
Kloss  Catal.,  page  206,  No.  2888. 
TROMEL,  No.  10,  under  the  date  of  1536. 


224..  SdBELLicus— "  Rhapfodiae  Hiftoriarum  Ennea- 
dum.     Bafle,  Hervagius,  1538,  2  vols.,  fol." 

(MEUSEL1.) 

"  Cette  edition  en  quatre  volumes  in  folio,  chez  Hervagius  [the 
complete  edition  of  1560]  avait  etc  precedee  1'an  1538  par  une  Edition 
en  deux  Volumes  in  folio,  chez  le  meme  Hervagius ;  mais  celle-ci  ne 
contenait  que  les  Enneades,  &  les  dix  Livres  d'Exemples,  avec  une 
Historica  Synopsis,  qui  continuait  les  Enneades  jusques  a  1'annee  1538. 
Cette  continuation  fut  faite  par  Celius  Secundus  Curion." 

(BAYLE8.) 


LORITZ  OR  GLAREANUS-"  De  Geographia  Liber 
unus.     Venet.  Sabio,  1538,  8vo." 

(Bibliothtca  Heberiana3.) 


1  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.    I,  Part  I,          a  Dictionnairc,  Vol.  iv,  p.  108,  note  E. 
page  96.  8  Part  i,  No.  2967. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  359 

226.     MARINEO  (L.)—  Within  a  tasteful  border  : 

.  INITVM  .  SAPIENTIE  .  TIMOR  . 
DOMINI  || 

Then  the  arms  with  the  double-headed  eagle,  followed  by 


(       ra     omjmea  por 


Hueio  Jftarineo  g>teulo  €c-  II  routfta  13  fus 
taties  ||  tie  las  eofas  memora  II  Wes  tie  tEtfpaita,  II 

Ano  de.  M.D.xxxix. 

Colophon  : 

CD  &catofe  la  prdente  otra  tre  lag  en-  1|  fas  31=: 
luftres  s  excellenteis  tre  iBfpana.  Otompuefta  pot 
el  troctiffimo  II  baton  Undo  iiflattneo  Siculn  OToro=: 
nifta  ire  fu.  g.  OT.  OT.  II  IE.  iSn  la  notle  milla  tre 
Cicala  tre  Benares.  iBn  II  eafa  tie  jpuan  tie 
ear  i  a  <£atorte  tiias  tiel  II  meg  tie  jhilio.  He 

ftueue 


*  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves  +  °ne  hundred 
and  ninety-two  numbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Library1.) 

Our  readers  recollect  that  the  great  decay  of  letters 
in  Spain  under  John  II,  Henry  IV,  and  even  of  Fer 
dinand  and  Isabella,  was  followed  by  a  revival,  due 
chiefly  to  the  example  of  Italy  at  that  time,  and  the 
influence  of  a  few  Italian  scholars  who  had  made  Spain  the 
land  of  their  adoption,  among  whom  the  author  of  the 
work  before  us  may  be  said  to  have  exercised  a  greater  in- 

1  Prescott's  bequest. 


360  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1  5  3  9*  ^uence  tnan  any  other.  Lucius  or  Lucas2  Marineo,  called 
Siculus,  owing  to  his  Sicilian  origin,  was  born  about 
the  year  1460.  From  Palermo,  where  he  taught  Belles- 
Letters,  he  removed  to  Spain,  and  held  for  twelve 
years  the  Chair  of  Latin  Literature  in  the  University 
of  Salamanca.  He  was  afterwards  appointed  to  the 
offices  of  Royal  Chaplain  and  official  historiographer5, 
and  is  supposed  to  have  died  shortly  after  the  year  1533. 
He  wrote  a  number  of  historical  works4,  of  which  Gin- 
guene  says5  "qu'il  destinait  ses  recherches  plutot  a  plaire 
a  ses  protecteurs  qu'a  instruire  ses  lecteurs6."  We  do 
not  know  whom  Marineo  intended  to  please  in  writ 
ing  the  present,  but  it  is  worthy  of  notice  that  in  the 
chapter  De  otras  yslas  apart adas  del  Hemispheric  llamadas 
Indias  (fol.  clxj),  he  calls  the  great  Genoese  navigator: 
"Pedro  Colon." 

Meusel  says7  of  this  work  :  Primo  opus  hocce  prodiit 
Compluti  1533.  fol.  (in  Latin,  for  we  mention,  supra, 
No.  159,  a  Spanish  edition  of  1530),  dein  Francofurti 
1579  in  Roberti  Beli  collectione,  simulque  separatim, 
tandemque  in  Andreae  Schotti  Hispania  illustrata  T.  I. 
(1603)." 

We  were  in  hopes  that  Lucio  Marineo's  correspond 
ence8  might  prove  as  interesting  as  Peter  Martyr's,  who 
was  his  personal  friend,  but  we  failed  to  find  in  it  any 
thing  relating  to  the  subject  before  us. 

Direct  references:  (Bibliotheca  Heteriana,  Part  v,  No.  2885. 
-|  BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  1432. 
(  GRAESSE,  Vol.  iv,  page  400. 


3  ANTONIO,  Biblioth.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol. 
TT,  p.  369  (Appendix). 

8  TIRABOSCHI,  Storia  d.  Lett.  Ital.,  Vol. 
VIT,  p.  1008,  sq. 

4  MONGITORE,  Bibliotheca  Sicu/a;  Paler 
mo,  fol.,  1720-1,  Vol.  ii. 

6  Hhtoire  Lit.  <T Italic,  Vol.  VIII,  p.  361. 

6  Prescott's  opinion  is  much  more  favor 
able.  "  It  is,"  says  he,  "  a  rich  repository 
of  details  respecting  the  geography,  sta 


tistics  and  manners  of  the  Peninsula,  with 
a  copious  historical  notice  of  events  in 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella's  reign."  (Hist, 
of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  Vol.  n,  p. 
194,  n.) 

7  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  VI,  Part  I, 
p.  38. 

8  Ep'ntolarumfamiliarum  libri  XVII, ora- 
tiones   et  cartnina;  Valladolid,  fol.,  1514. 

(Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  361 

227.     ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  -"-539' 


jioinl  <£ttta  muwamete  rttrmtata  alle 

die  conli  fuoi  coftumi  t  modi  del  fuo  Re 
t  foi  popoli.  [|  Li  modi  del  fuo  adorare  con 
la  Bella  vfanza  delle  donne  loro.  ||  Et  delle 
dua  perfone  Ermafrodite  donate  da  quel  || 
Re  al  Capitano  della  Armata.  ||  4fe  II 

Then  small  woodcut,  followed  by  nineteen  lines  of  text. 


*.(.*  Sm.  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco ;  two  unnumbered  leaves  printed 
in  Roman  characters.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  dated  "  xxx  di  Settembre  M  .  D  . 
XXXIX,"  and  unquestionably  an  original.  See,  supra, 
Nos.  191  and  206. 


228.    LORITZ  OR  GLAREANUS—  "  De   geographia  liber 
I.     Frib.  Brisg.  p.  J.  Fabrum  1539  in  4°." 

(GRAESSE*.) 

"  Prima  ancor  di  Werdenkagen  e  del  Munstero  vegonsi  dal 
Glareano  decorati  col  comun  titolo  di  Condottieri  e  il  Colombo  e 
il  Vespucci  quae  regiones  ab  Hispanis  lustratae  sunt  Columbo  Gen- 
uensi  et  Americo  Vesputio  nauigationis  Ducibus. 

"  Henr.  Glar.  Geogr.  an.  1539  />.  35.  Riflettono  gli  Avversarj  cbe 
al  dire  del  Glareano  (^Rag.  p.  80)  gli  Ammiragli,  i  Capitani  di  mare, 
i  Condottieri  del/'  imprese  furono  Spagnuoli  ;  Colombo  e  Vespucci  non 
piu  cbe  Piloti  Acutissima  riflessione  !"  &c.,  &c. 

(CANOVAI8.) 


1   Tr'esor,  Vol.  in,  p.  93.  "  Vita,  p.  269,  and  note. 

46 


362  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1539.          229.    APIANUS—  "  Petri   Apiani  I  Cofmographia,  per 

1  Gemmam  ||  Phryfium,  apud  Louanienfes    Medicum  ac 

Mathema- 1  ticum  infignem,  reftituta.     Additis  de  adem 

re   ipfius  I  Gemmae    Phry.    libellis,    vt    fequens    pagina 

docet.  II  Un  globe.  \\  ^[  Vaeneunt  Antuerpise  in  pingui  gal- 

lina  Arnoldo  Berckmano  .  1.5.3.9.1  ^  ^a  fin-   H  Ab- 

folutum  Antuerpie  per  Aegidium  Coppenium,  I  cura  & 

impenfis  Arnold!  Berckman,  I  Anno  Chriftiano,  1539. "II* 

4°  61.  fc.,  i  fnc.  Fig.  Rom. 

(TROMEL1.) 

Tromel  erroneously  considers  this  edition  as  the  first 
containing  Gemma  Frisius'  annotations.  (See,  supra, 
page  for  an  edition  of  1533.) 


23O.     APIANUS— GEMMA  FRISIUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
t+    PETRI       APIANI    ||    COSMOGRAPHIA, 

PER  GEMMAM  ||  Phryfium,  apud  Louanienfes 
Medicum  ac  Mathematicarum  ||  infignem, 
Denuo  reftituta.  Additis  de  eadem  re 
ipfius  ||  Gemmae  Phry.  libellis,  quos  fequens 
pagina  docet.  || 

Then  globe,  and  below  : 

M  .  D  .  XL  .  ||  Vaeneunt    Antuerpiae    in 
pingin  gallina  Arnoldo  Berkmano.  || 


*  Angticl:  Cosmography  of  Peter  Apian  For  sale  in  Antwerp,  at  the  sign  of  the 

restored  by  Gemma  Frisius,   physician  at  Fat  Hen,  by  Arnold  Berckman. 

Louvain,  and  a  distinguished  mathemati-  Finished  at  Antwerp  by  Egidius  Coppen, 

cian,  together  with  the   treatises    on    the  by  the  care  and  at  the  expense  of  Arnold 

same  subject  by  Gemma  Frisius  himself,  Berckman,  A.  D.  1539. 

as  will  be  seen  in  the  following  pages.  *  Bibliotheque  Amiricainc,  No.  n. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  363 

Colophon:  I 

Excufum  Antuerpiae  opera  Aegidij  Copenij.  ||  Anno  a  Chrifto 
nato  .  i  5  4  o  .  || 

*£*  410;  title  one  leaf-}-  two  unnumbered  leaves  -f-  folios  num 
bered  from  mi  to  LXI,  followed  by  one  unnumbered  leaf, 
with  vignette  or  printer's  mark  on  verso  ;  revolving  diagrams  ; 
no  map  in  the  present  copy. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  C'est  d'apres  1'edition  de  1540  qu'a  etc  faite  la  traduction  Fran- 
£aise  [infra]." 

(BRUNET*) 

Direct  references:  f  CLEMENT  Bibiiothequc  Curieusc,Vol.  i,  page  405,  in  a  note  correct- 
-|        ing  HENDREICH  (apud  Pandectae  Brandcrburgicac,  page  220). 
|    GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  159  (  ? ). 
1  Manuel,  Vol.  i,  col.  342. 

231.     PTOLEMY— MUNSTER— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEOGRAPHIA  ||  VNIVERSALIS,  VETVS  ET 

NOVA,  ||  COMPLECTENS   ||    CLAVDII      PTO/  || 
LEMAEI    ALEXANDRINI    ENARRATIO/  ||  NIS  LIBROS 

viii.  ||  Quorum  primus  noua  tranflatione 
Pirckheimeri  et  ||  acceffione  commentarioli 
illuftrior  quam  hacle  ||  nus  fuerit,  redditus 
eft.  ||  Reliqui  cum  graeco  &  alijs.  uetuftis 
exeplaribus  col/  ||  lati,  in  infinitis  fere  locis 
caftigatiores  fad:i  funt.  ||  Addita  funt  in- 
fuper  Scholia,  quibus  exoleta  urbium  || 
montium,  fluuiorumcj  nomina  ad  noftri 
feculi  mo/ 1|  rem  exponuntur.  ||  Succedunt 
tabulae  Ptolemaice,  opera  Sebaftiani  Mun|| 
fteri  nouo  paratae  modo  ||  His  adiecliae  funt 
plurime^  nouae  tabulae,  moderna  or/  ||  bis 


364  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1540.  faciem  literis  &  pi£tura  explicantes,  inter 

quas  ||  quaedam     antehac    Ptolemaeo    non 

fuerunt  additse.  ||  Vltimo  annexum  eft  com 
pendium  geographice  de/  ||  fcriptionis,  in 
quo  uarij  gentium  &  regionum  ri/ 1|  tus  & 
mores  explicantur.  ||  Pr^fixus  eft  quoqj  uni- 
uerfo  operi  index  memorabiliu  ||  populo- 
rum,  ciuitatum,  fluuiorum,  montium,  ter- 1| 
rarum,  lacuum  &c.  || 

BASILEAE,  APVD  HENRICVM  PETRVM|| 
MENSE  MARTIO  ANNO  ||  M  .  D  .XL.  || 

*„.*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  six 
for  the  index ;  +  seventeen  unnumbered  leaves  -f-  one  blank, 
-\-  one  hundred  arid  fifty-four  pages  of  text,  and  forty-eight 
maps,  filling  two  leaves  each,  with  descriptions  on  the  reverse  ; 
then  an  appendix  (sometimes  placed  before  the  maps),  num 
bering  from  157  to  195.  The  first  map  is  a  mappamund, 
with  the  word  America  ;  the  forty-fifth,  viz. :  NOVAE  INSVLAE, 
bears  the  following  inscription  on  the  southern  portion  of  our 
continent  :  "  Insula  Atlatica  quam  uocant  Brasilij  &  Ameri- 
camV  The  description  is  on  the  reverse. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  Son  edition  de  Ptolemee  [/.  e.,  Sebastian  Munster's],  cinq  fois 
imprimee,  1540,  1541,  I54i>  ^545*  I552>  servit  de  modele  a  la  nou- 
velle  formation  [/.  e.,  modernized  representation  of  Ptolemy's  inhabit 
able  world :  nova  et  quam  ante  fuit,  uerior  Europe  formatio\  pour  les 
autres  geographes  a  1'etranger." 

(LELEWELL3.) 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Hcbcriana,  Part  v,  No.  5398. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  15. 
HOFFMANN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  in,  page  319. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  501. 


1  Mapoteca  Colombiana,  No.  7,  states  that     graphia    universalis    de    Munster  .  Basiliae 
"La  misma  [map]   in  la  edicion  de  Hen-     1550  fol." 
ricus  Petrus  Basiliae  1545  i  en  la  Cosmo-         a  Geogr.  du  Moycn-Age,  Vol.  n,  p.  176. 


BibKotheca  Americana.  365 

232.     ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  last  leaf:  I  54-O, 

(tffjrtftopijortis  <£abma  Burgenfte  atr  lectorem||a 
facrt  foapttfmi  miniftriL    dMcolon  Jcafttdjon.  || 
Sbi  pane?  pnoffe  cup?  ueneratu  facertros : 
Tfft  taptifari  (luilifcet  Julius  ijatet :  .  .  .  .  etc. 

Then  a  long  list  of  errata,  and  : 

Jmprimiofe  efte  Uflanual  tre  &lwitos  en  lallgra 
ciutiatr  li  J&mco  per  matratrn  S  log  ||  Meueretitj'n? 
mo 8  Mores  oijtfpos  3  la  nueua||lEspaita  g  a  fus 
e.tpefas :  en  eafa  tre  $ua  ||  Otromterger.  Eno  Ul 
nacimieto  fl  nueftro  fenor  II  $efu  (Kijrifto  5  mill  g 
quinietos  g  quareta.H^  aciij  trias  Ul  meg  5  2ie{iei)re.ll 

^  This  work  exists  only  in  fragments. 

(Private  Library,  Madrid.) 

The  precise  date  of  the  introduction  of  printing  in 
America  is,  as  in  almost  every  country,  a  question  which 
still  perplexes  the  historian  of  the  art.  We  do  not  pre 
tend  to  be  able  to  solve  it  to  the  satisfaction  of  every 
critic ;  but  thanks  to  the  data  kindly  furnished  us  by 
Senor  Don  Joaquin  Garcia  Icazbalceta,  of  the  city  of 
Mexico,  whom  we  consider  the  highest  authority  on 
such  matters,  we  are  enabled  to  set  forth  an  elaborate 
statement  of  the  facts  which,  thus  far,  afford  the  only 
plausible  arguments  in  the  case. 

On  one  point  bibliographers  agree,  viz. :  the  city  of 
Mexico  is  entitled  to  the  honor  of  having  printed  the 
first  book  on  the  American  continent.  But  who  was 
the  first  printer  ?  What  was  the  first  book  printed  ? 
What  is  the  precise  date  when  it  was  first  issued  ?  In 
the  absence  of  original  proofs,  the  reader  must  deduce  an 
answer  to  these  queries  from  the  following  authorities  : 

The  earliest  and  most  trustworthy  author  who  men 
tions  the  subject  is  Fray  Augustin  Davila  Padilla,  who 
says1  that  Fray  Juan  de  Estrada : 

1  Hist,  de  lafvndacion  de  la  Pro-vincia  de  Mexico;  Bruxelles,  fol.,  1625,  p.  542. 


366 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


"  Eftando  en  cafa  de  Nouicios  hizo  una  cofa,  que  por  la  primera 
que  fe  hizo  en  efta  tierra  baftaua  para  darle  memoria,  quando  el  autor 
no  la  tuuiera,  como  la  tiene  ganada,  por  auer  fido  quien  fue.  El 
primer  libro  que  en  efle  nueuo  mundo  fe  efcriuio,  y  la  primera  cola 
en  que  fe  exercito  la  emprenta  en  efta  tierra,  fue  obra  fuya.  Daua- 
feles  a  los  nouicios  vn  libro  de  S.  luan  Climaco,  y  como  no  los 
auia  en  romance  mandaronle  que  lo  traduxeffe  de  Latin.  Hizolo  affi 
con  prefteza  y  elegancia,  por  fer  muy  buen  Latino  y  Romancifta,  y  fue 
fu  libro  el  primero  que  fe  imprimio  por  Juan  Pablos,  primer  imprefor 
que  a  efta  tierra  vino.  Bien  fe  mueftra  la  deuocion  de  fanto  Domingo 
de  Mexico,  en  que  vn  hijo  fuyo  haya  fido  el  primeo  que  en  efte  mundo 
nueuo  imprimieffe,  y  cofa  tan  deuota  como  la  efcalera  fpual  de  S. 
lua  Climaco." 

From  this  authority  we  gather  only  two  facts,  viz. : 
TheEsca/aEspirituatwas  the  first  book  printed  in  Mexico, 
and  Juan  Pablos  was  the  first  printer  who  exercised  his 
art  in  that  city.  The  date  must  be  borrowed  from 
another  author. 

Alonso  Fernandez  states1  that : 

"Efte  padre  [Juan  de  Eftrada]  imprimio  la  traducion  que  hizo  de 
f.  luan  Climaco,  muy  prouechofa  para  gente  que  trata  de  devocion 
y  efpiritu.  Efte  fue  el  primero  libro  que  fe  imprimio  en  Mexico,  y 
fue  ano  de  mil  y  quinientos  y  treinta  y  cinco  [1535]." 

Fernandez  agrees  with  Davila  Padilla,  but  he  omits 
the  name  of  the  printer,  while  he  gives  a  date. 

We  then  find  Gil  Gonzales  Davila,  the  official  chron 
icler  of  the  Indies,  who  says3  that: 

"  En  el  ano  de  mil  y  quinientos  y  treinta  y  dos  [1532]  el  virey  Do 
Antonio  de  Mendo£a  lleuo  la  Imprenta  a  Mexico.  El  primer  Im- 
preflbr  fue  luan  Pablos  ;  Y  el  primer  libro  que  fe  imprimio  en  el 
Nuevo  Mundo  fue  el  que  efcrivo  SAN  JUAN  CLIMACO  con  titulo  de 

EsCALA  EsPIRITUAL  PARA  LLEGAR  AL  CIELO,  TRADOCIDO  DE  LATIN  EN 
CASTELLANO  POR  EL  VENERABLE  PADRE  FR.  JUAN  DE  LA  MADALENA4, 
REGIOSO  DOMINICO." 


y  Historia  Eclcsiastica  de  ni>cstrosticmf>os;  rey  (Hist.,  p.  122)."  He  is  supposed 

Toledo,  fol.,  1611,  p.  122.  to  have  been  a  native  of  Mexico,  and  to 

8  Teatro  Ec/esiastico  de  la  primiti'va  have  died  in  1579,  says  ANTONIO  (Bib- 

Iglcsia  de  las  Indias  Occ identales  ;  Madrid,  liotk.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  686),  on 

fol.,  1649-55,  Vol.  i,  p.  23.  the  authority  of  DAVILA  PADILLA,  he.  cit., 

4  "  Juan  de  la  Magdalena"  was  the  lib.  11,  cap.  LVII.  If  so,  the  latter  his- 

cloister  name  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  called  torian,  who  was  born  in  1562,  and  joined 

by  FERNANDEZ  "  hijo  legitimo  del  Vir-  the  order  of  the  Dominicans,  in  Mexico, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  367 

The  only  discrepancy  between  this  statement  and  the 
two  preceding,  is  in  the  date,  which  is  certainly  errone 
ously  given  by  Gil  Gonzales  Davila,  as  the  Viceroy 
Mendoza  did  not  come  to  Mexico  until  the  middle  of 
October  I5355- 

We  then  find  an  official  document,  lately  discovered, 
which  seems  to  counterbalance  the  claims  of  Pablos  to 
the  credit  of  having  exercised  his  profession  in  Mexico 
as  early  as  1536,  in  any  other  capacity  than  that  of  jour 
neyman  printer  or  agent.  It  is  a  privilege  dated  Octo 
ber  nth,  1554,  granting  in  the  name  of  the  Viceroy 
Luis  de  Velasco,  to  Juan  Pablos,  the  exclusive  right  for 
eight  years  to  carry  on  a  printing  establishment  in  New 
Spain6.  This  document  mentions  another  privilege 
granted  by  the  king  to  Juan  Pablos  for  six  years,  and 
extended  by  the  viceroy  to  four  more,  which  last  four 
years  were  then  approaching  their  termination.  That 
is,  ten  years  in  all,  carrying  us  back  to  1544,  as  the  date 
when  Pablos  was  first  authorized  to  print.  We  should 
also  notice  that  it  was  not  until  1556  that  he  assumed 
the  title  of  "primer  impresor  en  esta  grande,  insigne  y  muy 
leal  ciudad  de  Mexico1  " 

Until  some  fortunate  bibliophile  succeeds  in  discover 
ing  a  printed,  dated  and  imprinted  Mexican  copy  of  the 
Escala  espiritual^  we  must  remain  in  doubt  as  to  the  date 
and  name  of  the  printer.  Such  a  discovery  has  not  yet 
been  made.  No  bibliographer  either  in  Europe  or  in 
America  has  seen  the  book,  and  no  author  mentions  it 


Nov.,  1579,  may  have  known  de  Estrada  the    Municipality   of  the   city  of  Mexico 

personally;   which  circumstance  would  in-  (MS.)  shows  that  on  the  I3th  of  October, 

crease  the  weight  of  his  assertions.  measures   were   adopted    to   give   a   public 

6  It    must   be   said,   however,   that  the  reception  to  the  vice-roy,  and  that,  on  the 

exact  date    of  the   arrival   of  Mendoza  is  lyth,  the    circumstance    is   mentioned   as 

yet    a    matter    of    discussion.       Notwith-  having  taken  place. 

standing  the  authority  of  Fr.  Baltazar  de          8  It   should   be    noticed  that,    notwith- 

Medina,*  who  gives   the   date  of  August  standing  this  privilege,  Antonio  Espinosa 

I5th,  1535,  the  journal  of  the  sessions  of  printed  in  Mexico  before  the  expiration  of 

the  eight  years. 

7  In  the  colophon  to   Constituciones  del 

*   Cronica    de    la     Provincia    de     San     Diero    de  L-  *     J     J     T\/T      •          *r      •         ri  r 

Mexico  de   Religions  descalxe,  de  N.  P.   S.  Fran-  arxobtsfado  de  Mexico  ;  Mexico,  fol.  1556. 

cisco;  Mexico,  fol.,  1682,  p.  133.  (Private  Libr.,  Mexico.) 


368 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 


I  54-O.  de  visu.  It  is  even  doubtful  whether  future  inquirers 
will  be  more  successful.  As  the  edition  was  made  exclu 
sively  for  the  novices  of  the  convent  of  St.  Dominick, 
few  copies  must  have  been  printed.  These,  being  dis 
tributed  among  students  and  even  children,  their  de 
struction  could  but  be  rapid ;  and  this  is  the  reason,  we 
suppose,  why  no  copy  has  come  down  to  us.  The  con 
sequence  is  that  some  bibliographers  deny  that  the  book 
was  ever  printed  at  all  in  Mexico ;  and  they  find  an 
additional  argument  in  the  dedication8  affixed  to  the 
translation  of  the  work  made  by  Luis  de  Granada.9  This 
translator  says,  after  stating  that  there  were  already  two 
translations  : 

"  De  las  cuales  traslaciones,  la  una  es  tambien  antigua,  y  tan  anti- 
gua,  que  apenas  se  entiende,  y  la  otra,  es  muy  nueva,  hecha  por  algun 
aragones  6  valenciano,  la  cual  no  es  menos  oscura  y  dificil  que  la 
pasada,  asi  por  la  dificultad  del  Hbro,  como  por  muchos  vocables  que 
tiene  peregrines  y  estrangeros,  como  bahorrina,  soledumbre,  inrobable 
y  otros  tales." 

This  cc  new"  translation  made  by  an  Arragonese  is 
wholly  unknown  to  us.  The  other  "very  old"  is  the 
anonymous  version  executed  by  command  of  the  famous 
Archbishop  of  Toledo,  Ximenes  de  Cisneros10.  No 
mention  is  made  of  Juan  de  Estrada's  translation  in  this 
dedication  ;  from  which  certain  critics  infer  that  it  never 


8  To  Dona  Catalina,  Queen  of  Portugal, 
and  wife  of  John  III. 

9  GRAESSE   mentions   editions   of   Sala 
manca,  1571,  Valladolid,  1583,  and  Mad 
rid,  1612,  all  8vo,  and   "une  reimpression 
(trad,    de     Griego    en     Castellano    por     un 
religioso  de  la  or  den  de  S.  Domingo),  Lisboa, 
1562,  8vo."     The  latter  is  very  probably 
the    original  edition  of  Luis  de  Granada's 
translation,  who   then   lived   in   Portugal, 
(PELLICER,  Ensayo  de  una  Bibliot..  p.  131). 
Senor  Icazbalceta  knows  of  a  Salamanca 
edition  of  1563,  by  Andrea  de   Portono- 
tariis,    8vo,   which,    however,   is    not   the 
princeps,  as  the  privilege  mentions  a  pre 
vious  edition. 

10  Obras  de  S.  Juan  CHmaco,  tradux.  en 
Castellano  for  mandado  del  Card.  Fr.  Xi 


menes  de  Cisneros ;  Toledo,  fol.,  1504.  It  is 
"  a  luxurious  folio  of  a  hundred  leaves," 
says  Mr.  TICKNOR,  who  possesses  a  copy 
of  this  rare  edition  (Hist.  Span.  Lit.,  Vol. 
in,  p.  1 60,  ».)  This  Celestial  Ladder,  in  its 
original  form,  is  a  kind  of  ascetic  treatise, 
written  by  Johannes,  frequently  called 
Climacus  (from  the  title  of  this  work), 
Scholasticus  (from  his  rapid  progress  in  the 
sciences),  and  Sinaira  (from  his  hermitage 
at  the  foot  of  the  Sinai).  He  was  a  native 
of  Palestine,  born  about  525,  and  who 
died  in  605.  The  Climax  or  Ladder  of 
Hea-ven,  derives  its  name  from  the  idea  of 
the  author  that  there  are  thirty  steps  or 
rounds  to  lead  the  soul  to  perfection.  It 
was  originally  written  in  Greek,  and  in 
the  aphoristic  form. 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  369 

existed,  deeming  it  an  impossibility  that  Luis  de  Gra- 
nada  should  not  have  known  the  work,  as  he  was  a  con- 
temporary  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  and  belonged  to  the  same 
monastic  order.  To  which  it  may  be  said  in  reply  that 
the  translation  was  made  for  immediate  use,  privately 
printed,  intended  exclusively  for  the  inmates  of  a  con 
vent,  and  that  Luis  de  Granada  may  not  have  heard  of 
a  publication  of  this  character,  undertaken  at  a  distance 
of  five  thousand  miles. 

But  to  deny  the  existence  of  the  Esca/a,  we  must 
reject  the  testimony  of  Davila  Padilla,  which  course  is 
fraught  with  difficulties.  Davila  Padilla  was  a  Mexican 
by  birth"  who  knew  the  family  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  if 
not  Estrada  himself,  and  belonged  to  the  same  congre 
gation.  To  write  his  History,  he  had  access  to  the 
archives  and  chronicles  kept  by  the  Dominicans,  and 
may  have  gathered  direct  information  from  some  of  the 
friars  who  knew  de  Estrada  personally.  He  was  a  man 
of  the  highest  character,  who  received  in  1599,  from 
Philip  III,  the  appointment  of  archbishop  of  Santo  Do 
mingo.  What  interest  could  such  a  distinguished  pre 
late  have  in  disguising  the  truth,  or  in  asserting  that  a 
certain  book  had  been  printed,  if  he  did  not  believe  that 
such  was  actually  the  case  ?  We  therefore  repeat,  after 
Senor  Icazbalceta,  that  "  on  doit  regarder  comme  par- 
faitement  etabli  que  VEscala  a  etc  le  premier  livre  im- 
prime  a  Mexico,  quoiqu'il  ne  soit  pas  improbable 
qu'avant  on  y  ait  imprime  des  syllabaires  ou  d'autres 
feuilles  detachees,  comme  on  1'a  avance,  sans  en  donner 
(cela  soit  dit  en  passant)  des  preuves  suffisantes  a  1'appui." 

But  what  is  the  precise  date  when  the  Escala  was 
printed  in  Mexico  ? 

Davila  Padilla  states12  that  Juan  de  Estrada  joined 
the  Dominican  order  in  1535,  and  that  he  made  his 
translation  while  yet  a  novice.  Considering  that  his 

11  Born  in  the  city  of  Mexico  in  1562,  Serif  tor.    ord.    Prtedic.,   Vol.   n,   p.    351. 

died   in   1604.     See  concerning   Davila  y  The  notice  in  ANTONIO  (Bibl.  Hisp.  Nova, 

Padilla,  GONZALES  DAVILA,   Theat.  eccles.  Vol.  i,  p.  351)  is  extremely  meager. 
de  las  Indias,  Vol.  i,  p.  789,  and  ECHARD,         ia  loc  cit.,  p.  668. 

47 


370  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1  54-O.  novitiate  lasted  a  year,  that  the  work  had  been  under- 
.  taken,  not  as  a  literary  effort,  but  simply  to  supply  an 
immediate  want,  and  that  in  consequence  the  trans 
lation  was  probably  printed  soon  after  being  written, 
we  may  affix  the  date  of  1536. 

This  date  agrees  prefectly  with  that  of  the  introduc 
tion  of  printing  in  Mexico.  Brought  over  by  Men- 
doza,  it  must  have  reached  Vera-Cruz  at  the  same  time; 
and  if  we  calculate  the  time  for  the  journey  to  the  city 
of  Mexico  and  the  organization  of  the  printing  office,  we 
find  that  1536  is  a  date  which  tallies  with  the  time  when 
Estrada  had  finished  his  translation. 

But  who  was  the  first  printer  in  Mexico  ?  Juan 
Pablos  is  usually  considered  as  being  entitled  to  the 
honor ;  but  we  will  endeavor  to  show  that  he  does  not 
stand  first  on  the  list. 

As  the  Escala  is  not  to  be  found,  no  one  can  say  that 
it  bears  the  imprint  of  Juan  Pablos,  Senor  Icazbalceta 
is  of  opinion,  that  if  a  copy  is  ever  discovered  it  will  be 
seen  that  it  is  either  anonymous  or  under  the  name  of 
Juan  Cromberger.  We  describe,  infra,  all  the  books 
now  in  existence  and  known,  printed  in  Mexico  before 
1600.  The  earliest  is  the  present  No.  232,  and  this, 
together  with  those  which  follow  to  1544,  has  the  im 
print  of  Cromberger.  The  last  of  these13  contains  in 
the  colophon  the  following  words:  tc que  Dios  haya" 
which  indicate  that  the  printer  was  already  dead ;  and 
the  fact  is  that  his  name  does  not  appear  after  this14. 
The  publications  which  follow  do  not  bear  any  imprint, 
and  it  is  only  in  a  work  printed  January  iyth,  I54815, 

13  Doctrina  xpiana  .  .  .  comfuesta  por  Pe-  serie,    1859,  p.    153,   i.e.,  pp.    183-188), 
dro  de  Cordoua  ;  Mexico,  4to,  1 544  (infra),  we  found  that  the  work  described  by  M. 

14  We  must  confess  that   the  mention  DESBARREAUX-BERNARD  was  only  the  Doc- 
of  a  Doctrina  breve  de  las  cosas  que  per-  trina  of  Bishop  Zummaraga,  which  bears, 
tcncccn  a  la  ft  catolica,  bearing  the  imprint  indeed,  the  imprint  of  Cromberger,  but  the 
of  Juan  Cromberger,  and  the  date  of  1547  date  of  "  M.dxliij,"  on  the  title-page,  and 

•    (apud G.  BRUNET,  Dictionnairc  de  Bibliologie  "  M.d.quarenta  qtro  aftos"  [1544]  in  the 

Catholique,  col.  941,  n.  158),  staggered  us  ;  colophon.     This  edition  we  describe  infra. 
but  by  referring  to  the  authority  quoted  by          16  A  Doctrina,  in  Spanish  and  Mexican 

M.    Brunet    (Bulletin    du    bibliophile,    146  (infra),  which  exists  only  in  fragments. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  371 

that  the  name  of  Juan  Pablos  is  given  for  the  first  time.  I  540. 
Others  may  yet  be  found  with  an  earlier  date ;  but  in  __--__— 
a  disquisition  like  the  present  we  must  limit  ourselves 
to  the  documents  before  us.  We  have  shown  that  it 
was  only  in  1556  that  Pablos  took  the  title  of  "  First 
Printer,"  and  that  1544  is  the  earliest  date  when  he  was 
first  entitled  to  it.  Cromberger  died  before  1544,  and 
we  infer  that  Pablos  succeeded  him,  but  are  inclined  to 
think  that  no  work  printed  by  the  latter  under  his  own 
name  will  be  found  bearing  an  earlier  imprint  than 
1544. 

But  how  can  we  account  for  the  title  of  "  Primer  im- 
presor  en  esta  ciudad  de  Mexico"  assumed  by  Pablos  ? 

The  word  Primer^  may  mean  first  in  point  of  talent 
or  position,  and  we  have  abundant  proofs  that  the  early 
printers  were  not  over  modest.  But  if  it  does  mean 
first  in  the  order  of  dates,  the  following  explanation, 
which  we  borrow  from  Senor  Icazbalceta,  will  prove 
satisfactory : 

"Jean  Cromberger  etait  un  imprimeur  celebre  etabli  a  Seville  long- 
temps  avant  que  le  vice-roi  Mendoza  vint  s'y  embarquer  pour  la  Nou- 
velle-Espagne.  Soit  que  le  vice-roi  ait  passe  un  marche  avec  1'impri- 
meur,  soit  que  celui-ci  ait  pris  1'affaire  pour  son  propre  compte, 
toujours  est-il  que  I'imprimerie  vint  avec  le  vice-roi.  II  n'est  pas  a 
supposer,  cependant,  que  Cromberger  cut  quitte  un  etablissement 
florissant  dans  une  si  riche  ville,  pour  aller  s'exposer  aux  dangers  d'un 
voyage  lointain  dans  des  contrees  non  encore  bien  connues  ou  paci- 
fiees.  Nous  savons  du  reste,  qu'il  ne  le  fit  pas.  Sa  maison  a  con 
tinue  d'exister  sous  son  nom  a  Seville  jusqu'en  1546,  au  moins ;  d'ou 
il  resulte  qu'il  possedait  en  meme  temps  deux  imprimeries,  une  a 
Seville  et  1'autre  a  Mexico.  Tout  porte  a  croire  que  Juan  Pablos 
etait  un  des  ouvriers,  peut  etre  le  chef  d'atelier  ou  prote,  de  Crom 
berger  et  que  celui-ci  lui  a  donne  le  materiel  necessaire  pour  venir 
fonder  un  nouvel  etablissement  a  Mexico,  en  lui  accordant  un  traite- 
ment  fixe  ou  une  part  dans  les  benifices.  Notre  imprimerie  n'etait 
done  qu'une  succursale  de  celle  de  Seville.  C'est  un  arrangement 
que  de  nos  jours  on  fait  encore  assez  souvent.  Mais  comme  I'impri 
merie  mexicaine  appartenait  reellement  a  Cromberger,  Pablos  etait 
bien  oblige  de  mettre  le  nom  du  proprietaire  et  non  pas  le  sien,  sur 
les  livres  qu'il  imprimait.  Cela  n'empechait  pas  les  habitants  de  la 
ville,  qui  tous  connaissaient  et  voyaient  Pablos,  sans  etre  a  meme  de 
savoir  ses  rapports  avec  Cromberger,  de  le  regarder  comme  le  pre- 


372  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C  J_O.     mier  imprimeur,  et  il  1'etait  en  effet,  quoique  ce  ne  fut  pas  pour  son 
__^_____  propre  compte,  mais  comme  employe  de  Cromberger.     Davila  Padilla 
ne  pouvait  pas  plus  faire  cette  distinction,  et  il  ne  1'aura  pas  trouvee 
dans  les  ecrits  dont  il  s'est  servi  pour  composer  son  Histoire. 

Au  commencement  de  1541,  Cromberger  etait  deja  mort ;  et  meme 
d'apres  Brunet16  le  nom  de  Jean  Cromberger  est  accompagne  des  mots 
que  Dios  perdone  dans  la  souscription  du  Palmerin  de  Oliva,  imprime 
en  i  540.  La  nouvelle  de  son  deces  aura  du  arriver  a  Mexico  vers  la 
fin  de  1541,  car  les  communications  n'etaient  ni  faciles  ni  frequentes. 
Jean  Pablos  resolut  alors  de  sa  rendre  acquereur  de  1'etablissement 
qu'il  gerait.  Pour  y  parvenir  il  devait  s'entendre  avec  les  heritiers 
de  Cromberger;  et  il  n'y  a  pas  lieu  de  s'etonner  qu'il  leur  ait  fallu  a 
peu  pres  trois  ans  pour  arriver  a  se  mettre  d'accord.  L'affaire  ne  fut 
reglee  qu'en  1544;  le  nom  de  Cromberger  disparut  alors  pour  faire 
place  a  celui  du  nouvel  acquereur  Jean  Pablos  qui  songea  aussitot  a  se 
munir  du  privilege  qui  lui  fut  accorde  la  meme  annee." 

After  Juan  Pablos,  we  find  several  other  printers ; 
but  there  seems  to  have  been  only  seven  of  them  from 
the  introduction  of  printing  to  the  close  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  viz. :  Juan  Cromberger,  Juan  Pablos,  Antonio 
Espinosa,  Pedro  Ocharte,  Pedro  Balli,  Antonio  Ricardo 
and  Melchior  Ocharte.  Among  these,  Espinosa,  or  de 
Spinosa,  is  the  only  one  who  displayed  a  printer's  mark. 
This  contained  the  motto  :  Virtus  in  infirmitate  perficitur. 
Antonio  Ricardo  removed  to  Lima  where  he  was  the  first 
printer.  In  a  work  printed  by  him  in  I596I?  he  states 
that  he  was  born  in  Turin,  and  as  Juan  Pablos  was  a 
native  of  Brescia,  in  Lombardy,  two  Italians  are  entitled 
to  the  credit  of  having  introduced  the  art  of  printing  on 
this  continent.  The  names  of  these  two  printers  were 
probably  in  their  mother-tongue,  Giovanni  Paoli  and 
Antonio  Ricciardi. 

We  do  not  think  that  the  number  of  works  printed 
in  America  in  the  sixteenth  century,  the  existence  of 
which  is  well  authenticated,  at  the  present  date,  ex 
ceeds  one  hundred.  We  give,  infra,  a  list  composed 
of  all  those  which  have  come  to  the  notice  of  Senor 
Icazbalceta,  and  to  our  own.  Additions  will  certainly  be 

16  Manuel,  Vol.  iv,  col.  330.  AGIA,    Tratado  y  farecer  sobrc  el  ser-vicio 

17  PEDRO    DE    OfJA's   Primera  pane   de     personal   de    los    Indios  del    Peru ;     Lima 
Arauco  domado  (infra),  and  in  MIGUEL   DE     fol.  1604. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  373 

made  in  the  course  of  time,  although  the  ransacking  of  I 
the  Mexican  convents,  under  the  enlightened  guidance 
of  the  present  Secretary  of  State  for  Mexico,  whose 
library  may  be  said  to  represent  the  bibliographical 
treasures  of  that  country,  has  not  brought  to  light,  as 
far  as  known,  as  many  curiosities  of  this  character  as 
were  expected. 

These  early  works  are  chiefly  of  the  kind  intended 
for  the  religious  education  of  the  Indians,  and  written 
either  in  Spanish  or  in  the  native  dialects,  together  with 
grammars  and  vocabularies  to  learn  the  same.  There 
is  also  a  sprinkling  of  theological  treatises  and  rituals 
for  monkish  use.  They  are  printed  either  in  Gothic, 
Italic,  or  Roman  characters,  displaying  occasionally  a 
few  rudely  executed  woodcuts.  We  find  among  them 
all  the  forms,  from  the  folio  to  the  octavo ;  but,  as 
was  then  the  custom  in  Spain,  of  a  size  smaller  than 
elsewhere.  The  binding  is  usually  plain  vellum  wrap 
pers  ;  and  as  to  the  condition  of  the  books,  we  doubt 
whether  there  is  a  single  copy  which  is  not  torn,  incom 
plete,  soiled,  stained  or  worm-eaten. 

Leaving  aside  all  theories  and  assertions  concerning 
the  existence  of  a  printing  establishment  in  Mexico  as 
early  as  1536,  our  list  will  evince  a  fact  which  must 
remain  above  all  cavils  and  objections.  It  is  that  the 
earliest  book  printed  in  America,  as  far  as  known  at 
the  present  time,  is  not,  "  beyond  a  doubt,  the  Doc- 
trina  Christiana  of  I54418,"  nor  the  Vocabulario  of  Mo 
lina,  dated  I57i19,  nor  the  Ordinationes  legumque  collec- 
tiones10)  which  never  existed  (at  least  with  a  Latin  title 
and  under  the  date  of  1549),  but  the  present  Manual 
de  Adult  OS)  which  bears  the  date  of  December  I3th, 
1540,  and  the  imprint  of  Juan  Cromberger. 

18  RICH.  Bibl.  Amer.  Vctus,  p.  5,  No.  14.  duced  there  some  years  before  that  period." 

19  The    remark    of    TERNAUX     (Bibl.  Hist,  of  Printing  in  America,  Vol.  i,  p.  194. 
Americ.,    p.    13)    that    Thomas    considers          20  EGUIARA,  Biblioth.  Mexicana,  p.  2,2,1, 
Molina's    Vocabulario   as    the    first    book  copied  the  title  from  PINELO-BARCIA,  col. 
printed  in  Mexico,  is  incorrect.     Thomas  827,  and  found  himself  followers  in  COT- 
only  says,  after  mentioning  a  work  pub-  TON,     Typographical    Gazetteer ;     Oxford, 
lished  in  New  Spain  in  1604,  "there  can  8vo,    1831,    p.    172,    and    FALKENSTEIN, 
be  but  little  doubt  that  Printing  was  intro-  Geschichte  der  Buchdruck.,  p.  329. 


374  Bibliotheca  Americana. 


A  LIST  OF  WORKS  PRINTED  IN  AMERICA  BETWEEN  THE  YEARS 

1540  AND    1600  ; 

WHICH  HAVE  COME  TO  THE  PERSONAL  NOTICE  OF 
SENOR  ICAZBALCETA  OR  OF  OUR  OWN. 


. — Manual  de  Adultos  (present  No.  2,32). 
1541. — Relacion  del  espantable  ttrremoto  de  Guatemala  (infra). 
1543. — Doctrina  cristiana  (infra). 
1544. —  Tripartite  de  Juan  Gerson  (infra). 

"         De  la  manera  de  c'omo  se  han  de  hacer  las  procesiones  (infra"). 

"         Same  work;  sine  anno  (infra). 

"         DE  CORDOVA,  Doctrina  cristiana  (infra). 
1546. — Doctrina  cristiana  (infra). 
1547. — Reg/a  cristiana  (infra). 
1548. — Ordcnanzas  de  Antonio  de  Mendvza  (infra). 

"         Doctrina  en  castellano  y  mexicana  (infra). 

1549. — F.  BRAVO  DE  ORSUNA,  Of  era  Medicinalia  ;  Mex.,  4to  (infra.    We  doubt  the  cor 
rectness  of  this  date,  although  it  is  certainly  so  printed  on  the  title-page). 
1550. — Doctrina  en  castellano  y  mexicana  (another  edition,  infra). 
1553. — PEDRO  DE  GANTE,  Doctrina  cristiana  en  lengua  mexicana  ;  Mex.,  8vo. 
1554. — Fr.  ALPH.  A  VERACRUCE,  Recognitio  Summularum  ;  Mex.,  fol. 

"  "        "  Dialectica  Resolutio ;  Mex.,  fol. 

"         F.  CERVANTES  SALAZAR,  Dialog: ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

1555. — ALONSO  DE  MOLINA,  Vocabularlo  mexicano  ;  Mex.,  4to. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 

1556. — ALPH.  A  VERACRUCE,  Speculum  conjugiorum ;  Mex.,  410. 

"          Constituciones  del  arzobispado  de  Mexico  ;  Mex.,  fol. 

"          Ordinarium  sacri  ordinis  hteremharum  ;   Mex.,  410. 

"         FREYRE,  Sumario  de  las  quentas  de  plata  y  oro  en  los  reynos  del  Piru ;  Mex.,  8vo. 
1557. — ALPH.  A  VERACRUCE,  Physica  speculatio ;   Mex.,  fol. 
1558. — MAT.  GILBERTI,  Arte  de  lengua  de  Mic hoacan  ,•   Mex.,  8vo. 
1559. —     "  "          Dialogo  de  doctr.  christ.  en  leng.  de  Micboacan  ,•   Mex.,  fol. 

"  "  "          Vocabular.  dc  doctr.  ckrist.  en  leng.  de  Michoacan;  Mex.,  410. 

"  "          Grammatica  latino ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

"         A.  DE  LA  VERA  CRUZ,  Carta,  sine  anno,  14  11. ;   Mex.,  fol. 
1560.*— Manual  para  administrar  los  sacramentos  (Lat.  and  Spanish);   Mex.,  410. 
1561. — Missale  Romanum  ;   Mex.,  fol. 

*  F.  de  Cepeda,  Artes  de  las  leng.  Chiafa,  Zoque.      Remesal" — Leon  Pinelo,  Epitome,  p.  log  ;  Echard, 
Celdales  y   Cinacanteca  ;    Mexico,    410  ;   ("  segun      de  Serif  tor,  ord,  dominie  ;  Ternaux,  No.  85). 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  375 

1563. — PUGA,  Pro-viziones,  $cdulas,  Sec. ;   Mex.,  fol.  (infra], 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

i$6$.*~Catalogus  Pairum  Concilii  Tridentini  (sine  anno];  Mex.,  4to. 

"         A.  DE  MOLINA,  Confess.  Mayor  Mex.  y  Caste/1.  ;   Mex.  410,  121+3  N- 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

"          Confess,  mayor  Mex.  y  Caste//,  breve  ;  Mex.,  410,  121+3  H- 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

1 566. "I"— Fr.  B.  A  LEDESMA,  De  Septem  nova?  legis  sacramentis;   Mex.,  410. 

1  S^? '-%-Reglas y  comfit,  dela  Cofradia  de  los  juramentos  ;  Mex.,  fol.,  one  leaf  only. 

"          Instituta  ordinis  Beati  Francisci  ;   Mex.,  4to. 

"         Fr.  BENITO  FERNANDEZ,  Doctrina  en  lengua  misteca  ;  Mex.,  410. 
1568  $-Same  work  ;  Mex.,  410. 

"         Manual  p.  administ.  los  sacram.  (Lat.  and  Spanish)  ;      Mex.,  410. 

"         Several  Papal  Bulls  ;   Mex.,  410. 

1571. — A.   DE  MOLINA,  Arte   de  la   lengua  Mex.  y  Caste//.;   Mex.,  by  Ocharte,  12°, 
3  +  82  +  35  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

"          A.    DE   MOLINA,    Vocabulario   en   lengua   Mexicana  y    Caste//.;    Mex.,   by    de 
Spinosa,  fol.  2+161  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

"         Same  work;  Mex.,  fol.,  4+122  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

I573.||-Fr.  P.  DE  AGURTO,    Tratado   de  que   se   deben   administ.    los  sacr.  a  los  indios; 
Mex.,  8vo. 

1574. — Fr.  J.  B.  DE  LAGUNA,  Arte  y  Diccionario,  en  lengua  de  Michoacan;  Mex.,  8vo. 

"          Ordenanzas  sobre  alcabalas  ;   Mex.,  fol.,  6  11. 
1575. — Fr.  MAT.  GILBERTI,  Tesoro  esfirit.  dc  pobrcs  en  leng.  de  Michoacan;  Mex.,  8vo. 

"         Fr.  J.  DE  LA  ANUNCIACION,  Doctrina  crist.  en  cast,  y  Mcxic. ;  Mex.,  410. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 
".        Dr.  S.  J.  E.  BUENAVENTURA,  Mistica  Theologia;  Mex.,  8vo. 

1576. — Fr.  A.  DE  MOLINA,  Arte  dc  lengua  mexicana  ;   Mex  ,  8vo. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 

"         F.  M.  DE  VARGAS,  Doctrina  en  Mexicano,  Caste//,  y  Otomi ;  Mex.,  410. 
1577. — Fr.  J.  MEDINA,  Doctrinalis.  _fidei  in  Mechuacanen.  Indorum  lengua;   Mex.,  fol. 

"         Fr.  J.  DE  LA  ANUNCIACION,  Sermonario  en  lengua  mexicana  ;   Mex.,  4to. 

"         Commentario  a  la  logica  de  Aristoteles;   Mex.,  8vo. 

"          Omnia  Domini  Andrea  Alciati  Emblemata  ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

"          0-vidii  Nasonis  tarn  de  Tristibus  ;  Mex.,  8vo. 
1578. — Fr   A.  DE  MOLINA,  Confesonario  mayor  en  leng.  cast,  y  mex. ;   Mex.,  410. 

"  "         "          "  Doctrina  en  lengua  mexicana;   Mex.,  4to. 


*   Fr.   Domingo  de  la  Annunciacion.    Doctrina  ?  Ledesma.    De   Seftem-nnce  leg.;   Mex..  410. 

Christiana  en  castellano  y  Mexicano  ;   Mex.,   410  ['"  Probably  the  first  book  printed  in  the  Roman 

(Ternaux,  No.  93).  letter  in    Mexico,"    Rich,   Bibliotheca    Americana 

f   Fr.  Marroquin,  Doctrina  christiana  en  lengua  Vetus,  No.  <6.] 

Utlateca  ;    Mex.,    1556,    410  (Remesal,     Hist,  di  \\  A.   de  Vetancurt.    Arte    de    la    lengua   Mexi- 

Chiafas,  lib.  in,  cap.  vn,  Ternaux,  No.  98).  cana ;  Mexico     157?.     (Ternaux.   No.   118.      No 

t   Fr.    Pedro    de    Feria.    Doctrina    cristiana    en  such  work  exists  under    this  date.       There    is  an 

lengua    Castellana  y    Qafolteca;     Mex.,   by   Pedro  edit'on    of  1673,    mentioned  in    Bibliotheca  Hebe- 

Ocharte,  410,  8  +  116  11.    (Ternaux,  No.  104).  r/a,.a,  Ft.  I,  No.  7130.) 


376 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 


1578. — Fr.  J.  DE  CORDOVA,  Arte  en  lengua  Zapotcca ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

1579. — Ceremonial y  rubricas  gen.  con  la  ordtn  de  celeb,  las  misas  ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

"         Instruction  y  arte  p.  reg.  el  of  do  divino ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

1582.. — Fr.  J.  DE  GAONA,  Coloquio  de  la  pax  del  alma  en  leng.  mexic. ;   Mex.,  8vo. 
1583. — GARCIA  DEL  PALACIO,  Dia/ogos  militarcs ;  Mex.,  410. 

"          Forma  bre-v.  administr.  ap.  Indies  S.  Bapthmi  Sacramentum  ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

"          Fr.  B.  SAHAGUN,  Psalmodia  Christiana  ;   Mex.,  410. 

i585.*-TERCERo  ||  CATHECISMO  ||  Y  EXPOSICION  de  la  ||  Doctrina  Christiana,  por  || 
Sermones.  ||  PARA  OJJE  LOS  CVRAS  Y  OTROS  ||  ministros  prediquen  y  ensenen  a 
los  Yndios  y  a  las  demas  personas.  ||  IMPRESSO  CON  LICENCIA  DE  LA  ||  Real 
Audiencia,  enla  Ciudad  delos  Reyes,  for  Antonio  Ricardo  ||  primero  Impressor 
encstos  Reynos  del  Piru.  \\  ANO  DE  M  .  D  .  LXXXV  .  ||  Esta  tassado  vn 
Real  por  cada  pliego  en  papel.  ||  4to,  8  prel.  11.  +  215  numbr.  II.1 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

"          Confessionario  para  los  curas  de  Indies  con  la  instruction  contra  sus  ritos  traducido 
en  las  lenguas  £>uic/iua,  y  Aymara;  Lima,  by  A.  Ricardo,  410,  4+27  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

"         Estatutos gen.  de  Barcelona  (for  the  order  of  Franciscans)  ;   Mex.,  410. 
1587. — Constitutiones  ordin.fratr.  eremit.   S.  Aug.;  Mex.,  8vo. 
1589. — Forma  y  modo  de  fundar  las  cofradias  del  cordon  de  S.  Fr.  ;   Mex  ,  8vo. 
1592. — Fr.  Ac    FARFAN,  Tratado  breve  de  Medicina ;  Mex.,  410. 
~^r-  "^-  DE  LOS  REYES>  Arte  en  lengua  misteca;   Mex.,  8vo. 

Fr.  FRANC.  DE  ALVARADO,  Vocabular'w  en  lengua  mistec a  ;   Mex.,  410. 
. — J.  E.  DE  BUENAVENTURA,  Mistica  Tbeologia ;   Mex.,  8vo. 
1595. — Regla  de  losfrailes  menores;  Mex.,  410. 

"        A.  DEL  RINCON,  Arte  Mexicano  ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

"         Fundacion  e  Indulgencias  de  la  ord.  de  la  Merced;   Mex.,  8vo. 

1596."};- P.  DE  OSJA,  Primer  a  parte  de  Arauco  domado,  cotnpuesto  por  el  licenciado  Pedro 
de  Ona,  natural  de  los  infantes  de  Engol  en  Chili.  Impresso  en  la  ciudad  de 
los  Reyes  por  Antonio  Ricardo  de  Turin  ;  410,  u  +  335  11.,  portrait. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

iena.'i-Fr.  ].  BAUTISTA,  Confesionario  en  lengua  mexicana ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 

i6oo.||—  "  Ad-vcrtcncias  a  los  confesores  de  Indios ;   Mex.,  2  vols.,  8vo. 

"         Relation  Historiada  de  las  Exequias  de  Felipe  II;  Mex.,  by  P.  Balli,  410. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 


*   Vocabularia  en  la  ling,  genera!  del  Peru  y  en  — Arte  de  la  lengua  Mexicana,  compuesta  for  el 

lengua    Espanola  ;    Lima,    1586,    sm.    8vo   (Ter-  fadre  Antonio  del  Rincon  ;  Mex.,    izmo.  second 

naux.  No.  164'.  edition  (Ternaux,  No.  225). 

1  The  following,  however,  is,  as  far  as  known,  $  Pedro  de   Ona.    Tiemtlor   de   Lima   del   ano 

the  earliest  Lima  book  :  '599.  foema;  Lima,  1599  (Ternaux,  No.  230). 

"  Doctrina  Christiana  (en   Quichua  y  Aymara).  — Platicai    antiquas    que    en    la.    excellentissima 

Impresso    en   la  ciudad   de   los    reyes,    por    Antonio  lengua    NahuatI   enmendo    y    crecento    el    P.    Juan 

Ricardo.  primera  impressor  en  estos  reynos  del  Piru.  Bautista.  franciscano ,•   Mex.,   8vo  (Ternaux,   No. 

Ana  de  M.D.LXXXWI,  in-4-  de  8  ff.  prelim.  434). 

et  84  ff.  chiffres."     (Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  780.)  ||  A.  de  Onate,  Parecer  de  un  hombre  docto  en  la 


Mex.,  1593  (Ternaux,  No.  424].  bly  an  American  impression,. 


Bibliothtca  Americana.  377 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  only  "in  January,  1639,  printing  was  first  per 
formed  in  that  part  of  North  America  which  extends  from  the  gulph  of  Mexico  to 
the  frozen  ocean."*  The  first  press  and  font  of  type  were  imported  by  Rev.  Jesse 
Glover,  who  defrayed  a  part  of  the  expense,  the  balance  being  contributed  by  several 
gentlemen  in  New  England  and  Amsterdam.  A  London  printer,  called  Stephen 
Daye,  came  at  the  same  time  with  the  printing  apparatus,  in  1638,  and  the  office  was 
located  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  "  The  first  thing  which  was  printed,"  says 
Winthropf ,  "  was  The  Freemen's  Oath  ;  the  next  was  an  almanack  made  for  New  Eng 
land,  by  Mr.  William  Peirce,  mariner  J,"  both  of  which,  according  to  Thomas,  were 
issued  in  1639.  As  to  thefrst  book  printed  north  of  Mexico,  it  was  the  following: 

THE 

WHOLE 

BOOKE    OF    PSALMES 

Faithfully 

TRANSLATED  into  ENGLISH 
Metre 

Whereunto  is  prefixed  a  difcourfe   de 
claring    not    only    the    lawfullnes,    but    alfo 
the  neceffity  of  the  heavenly  Ordinance 
of  fiiging  scripture  Pfalmes  in 
the  Churches  of 
God. 

Coll.  in. 

Let  the  word  of  God  dwell  plenteoujly  in 

you,  in  all  tvifdome,  teaching  and  exhort 
ing  one  another  in  Pfalmes,  Himnes,  and 

fpirituall  Songs,  Ringing  to  the  Lord  "with 
grace  in  your  hearts. 

lames  v. 

If  any  be  afflicted,  let  him  pray,  and  if 
any  be  merry  let  him  Jing  pfalmes. 

Imprinted 
1640 

\*  8vo,  sine  loco  (Cambridge,  by  S.  Daye).  Title  one  leaf+seven  leaves  for  p~ef- 
ace  +  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  leaf  for  errata 
(Thomas  says  "  300  pages"),  in  Roman  characters.  It  is  stated  that  there 
are  some  slight  differences  in  different  copies,  indicating  alterations  introduced 
in  the  progress  of  printing  this  edition. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Cambridge  and  Boston.) 

The   work    was   prepared  for  the  press  under  the  supervision  of  Richard   Mather, 
Thomas  Weld  and  John  Elliot,  of  Indian  Bible  notoriety. 

*  Thomas,  lac.  cit.,  Vol.  I,  p.  205.  there  are  any  copies  in  existence  of  these  two  pub- 

•f  Kistn.y  of  New  England  from  1630  to  1649;  locations.     Mr.  S.  F.  Haven  is  of  opinion  that  The 

Boston,  8vo,  I8z5,  Vol.  I,  p.  289.  freeman's  Oath  was  printed  on  one  side  of  a  sheet 

%  We  have  been   unable  to   ascertain  whether  of  small  paper. 

48 


378  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  £4. 1 .  233.      PTOLEM T-SERVETUS—  Above  a  large  woodcut : 

CLAVDII\\  PTOLEM AEI  [|  ALEXAN-  || 
DRINI  ||  Geographies  Enarrationis,  ||  Libri 

OctO.  ||  EX  BILIBALDI  PIRCKE.  \\ymheri  tralatione, 
Jed  ad  Gr<eca  &  prifca  a  Michaele  Villanouano  [Serve t us]  \\ 
Jecundb  recogniti,  &  locis  innumeris  denuo  caftigati.    Adiefta 
infuper  ab  eodem  Scho  \\  lia,  quibus  &?  difficilis  ilk  Primus 
Liber  nunc  primum  explicatur,  &  exoleta  Vrbium  ||  nomina 
ad    noftri   Jeculi   morem    exponuntur.      ^uinquaginta   ilia 
quoque  cum    ueterum  turn  ||  recentium  tabula   adneffuntur, 
uarijqz  incolentium  ritus  £ff  mores  explicantur.  \\ 
Accedit  Index  locupletijjimus  hattenus  non  uifus.  || 

Pr  oft  ant  Lugduni  apud  Hugonem  a  Port  a. 

M  .  D  .  XLI  . 

Colophon  : 

Excudebat  II  Galpar  Trechfelii 
Viennae  \\  M .  D  .  XLI .  \\ 

*„,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  with  Servetus'  address  to  the  reader  on 
the  verso;  followed  by  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  numbered 
pages  -}-  one  blank  -j-  fifty  maps,  each  filling  two  leaves,  with 
descriptions  on  the  reverse  +  fifty-six  unnumbered  leaves  for 
index  +  one  for  table  +  one  for  colophon.  The  "  Tabula 
terrae  nouae"  and  ORBIS  .  TYPVS  .  VNIVERSALIS,  are  literal  re 
prints  of  the  two  maps  of  that  name  in  the  Ptolemy  of  1522, 
the  word  America  appearing  in  the  latter  only.  The  descrip 
tion  of  the  New  World  is  on  signature  28,  on  reverse  of  the 
map,  and  ends  with  these  significant  words  :  "  Tota  itaqz, 
quod  aiunt  aberrant  ccelo  qui  hanc  continentem  America  nun- 
cupari  contendunt,  cum  Americus  multo  post  Columbia  eande 
terrain  adieret,  nee  cum  Hispanis  ille,  sed  cum  Portugallensi- 
bus,  ut  suas  merces  commutaret,  eo  se  contulito." 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  De  Charlieu,  Servet  retourna  a  Lyon.  II  cut  le  bonheur  d'y 
trouver  Pierre  Palmier,  Archeveque  de  Vienne,  qu'il  avait  connu  a 
Paris ;  &  ce  Prelat  qui  aimait  les  S9avans  &  les  encourageoit  par  fes 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  379 

benfaits,  le  preflk  de  venir  a  Vienne,  ou  il  lui  donna  un  appartement 
aupres  de  fon  Palais.     Servet,  pour  temoigner  fa  reconnoiffance  a  fon 
nouveau   Mecene,  donna  une  feconde  edition  de  la  Geographic  de 
Ptolemee,  &  la  lui  dedia  .......   Cette  edition  de   Ptolemee,  qui 

eft  in-Jol.  comme  la  premiere,  fut  faite  a  Vienne  en  1541.  par  Gaf- 
pard  Trefchfel,  fameux  Imprimeur,  que  les  liberalites  de  Pierre  Pal 
mier  y  avoient  attire.  Elle  eft  magnifique,  &  en  meme  terns  d'une 
rarete  extraordinaire." 

(D'ARTIGNY1.) 

Direct  references:  f  HOFFMAN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  in,  page  319. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  —  . 
Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  20. 
Labanoff  Catalogue,  No.  24. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  page  237,  No.  3325. 
EBERT,  No.  18233. 


234.     ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

i&elacton  fll  efpatatle  terremoto  q  agora  nueua= 
mente  fja  acnntecitrn  en  la  ciitiatr  5  (iuattmala  :  eg 
cofa  to  gratre  atrmiracion  g  tre  gratre  exemplo  para 
q  totros  nog  ementremos  ^  nueftros  pecatios  g  efte= 
mos  aprefctuitros  para  quatro  Hiiojs  fuere  feruitro 
tre  nos  liamar. 

In  fine  : 

J^ue  impreffa  en  la  gra  ciutrafc  ^  Mtxiw  en 
cafa  tre  $ua  Otromterger  ano  ^  mill  g  qutnietoss  g 
quareta  g  bno. 

*+*  410,  four  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Madrid.) 

An  edition  of  the  same  plaquette  was  also  published 
in  Spain,  four  leaves,  4to. 

2^C.    APIANUS  (P.)—  "  Cofmographia   per    Gemmam 
Frifium  correda.  Norimb.  1541.  in-4°." 

(GRAESSE1.) 

1    Nouveaux  Mcmoires  fhistoire,  Sec.,  Vol.  n,  p.  65.         a  Tresor,  Vol.  i,  p.  159. 


380  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

§  4. 1 .  236.    APIANUS  (P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

—  COSMOGRA-H    PHIAE     INTRODVCTIO 


CVM  QVIBSDAM  GEOME-  ||  TRIAE  AC  ASTRONO-  ||  MIM  PRIN- 
CIPIIS  ||  AD  EAM  REM  ||  NECESSA-  ||  RIIS.  || 

Colophon  : 

Venetijs  per  lo.  Antonium  de  Nicolinis  de  Sabio,  Sumptu  £5"  || 
requifitione  D.  Melchioris  SeJ/ce.  Anno  Domini.  \\  MDXXXXL 
Men/is  lulij.  || 

*„*  Sm.  410  ;  title  one  leaf  -f-  twenty-three  numbered  leaves. 
Woodcut  on  verso  of  the  last  representing  a  cat  holding  a 
mouse  between  its  teeth,  with  the  motto:  DISSIMILIVM  .  INE- 

IDA   .  SOCIETAS   . 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See,  supra,  page  272,  and  Nos.  127,  149  and  150. 

237.    MUNSTER   (SEBAST.}—Cofmographia    Eejchreibung 
aller  Lender. 

Eajel  \_durch  Henrichum  Petri?~\  M.DXLI.  fol. 

(Labanoff  Catalogue1.} 

First  edition  apparently  of  Munster's  well-known 
Cosmographia.  See,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1544. 


238.     FRANCK  (SEE  AST.)—  First  seven  lines  of  the  title-page  : 


(Ubtnig  beg  gan- 

<Sefiaftiano  ||  gvanco  SSorbenfi  inn  bier  tw- 
djer  1 1|  namfldj  in  Wjiam  i  9tyljricam  i  Cvu-  ||  ra^iam  nnb 
Wmericamigcftett  nnb  alitctjit  autfj  atter  barin  licgriffncr 
Ian  ||  ber  i  nation  i  iproninOcn  nnb  Jnfcln  ;  gclegenlicijt  i 
groffei  nteitte  i  gctuarfjs  i  digcnfrfjafft.  1 1| 

Last  line  of  the  title-page: 

M  D  XLII. 

1  Page  19,  No.  71. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  381 

*„.*  Folio,  sine  loco  (perhaps  Frankfort1),  title  one  leaf  +  four  un- 
numbered  preliminary  leaves  -j-  leaves  numbered  iii-ccxxxvn 
+  seven  unnumbered  leaves.  This  edition  differs  from  the 
edition  of  1534  (No.  197)  only  in  the  arrangement  of  the 
lines  in  the  title,  and  is  probably  only  a  new  issue  of  the 
latter,  but  with  a  new  title-page. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Direct  references:  f SCHELHORN,  Ergotxlichkcitcn,  Vol.  i,  pages  log-iza2. 
J.  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  20,  No.  70. 
(^  GRAESSE,  Vol.  u,  page  627. 


2  7Q.     CABE$A  DE  VACA—  Under  a  large  coat-of-arms  with  the 

double-beaded  eagle  : 

c  3^a  wlacura  <{w  di0  Jtto  nu-  n 

fie{  catena  tre  baca  tre  lo  acaefcitro  eulais  Jntrta^  || 
enla  atmafta  trontre  gua  pot  gouernatror  ^a-||pi)ilo 
tre  ttartjanitreftre  ei  ano  tre  begntell  g  fiete  fjafta  el 
ano  5  ttegnta  g  fegs  ||  pe  toluto  a  g>nulla  ecu 
trespefu  compama.:.|| 

Colophon  : 

c  ^iw  impw((0  rt  pffftttf  tta-  n 

tatro  eula  magnificai noting  anttquifHina  ciutratr|| 
tre  ^amora:  pot*  log  ijanrratms  baronet  Eugu-||fttn 
to  W  8  3uan  ^iicartra  cmnpaneros  im  ||  preffore^ 
tre  libros  beimoiei  trela  tridja  fiu||tratr.  &  cofta  g 
efpenfas  trel  birtuofo  ba  ||  ton  Juan  petrro  mufetti 
mercatrer  ||  tre  litos  be{ino  tre  JEetiina  trel  II  campo. 
acatofe  en  fegs  Mas  ||  tiel  me^  tre  ©ctutre.  Eno  || 
trel  nafpimtento  5  nto  fal  II  uatror  Jefu  (Krifto  tre  1 1 
mil  g  pinienttiis  g  II  parenta  g  tins 


1  British  Museum  Catalogue.         "  Contains  also  an  interesting  sketch  of  Franck. 


382  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

***  Sm.  4to  (signatures  from  A  to  I  in  eights);  title  one  leaf-f- 
sixty-six  unnumbered  leaves,  twenty-nine  lines  to  a  full  page. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York.) 

There  are  two  distinct  works  which  bear  the  name  of 
Cabe$a  de  Vaca.  The  present,  which  is  the  Relation, 
relates  the  hardships  and  adventures  attending  the  expe 
dition  from  the  Bay  of  Tampa  to  the  village  of  Cora- 
zones  in  Sonora,  and  which  lasted  eight  years,  every  day 
almost  being  marked  with  unexampled  sufferings.  The 
other  consists  in  the  Commentaries,  which  were  written 
under  Nunez'  direction  by  Pero  Hernandez1.  This 
was  added  to  the  second  edition  of  the  Relation,  pub 
lished  in  1555.  The  latter  thrilling  narrative  was  com 
posed  by  Alvarez  Nunez,  better  known  under  the  name 
of  Cabe9a  de  Vaca,  which  he  inherited  from  his  mother. 
The  origin  of  this  strange  surname  is  thus  related  by 
Ternaux2. 

"  Au  mois  de  Juillet  1212,  1'armee  chretienne,  commandee  par 
les  rois  de  Castille,  d'Arragon  et  de  Navarre,  s'avancait  centre  les 
Maures,  lorsqu'arrivee  a  Castro-Ferral,  tous  les  passages  se  trouverent 
occupes  par  1'ennemi.  Les  chretiens  allaient  done  se  voir  forces  de 
retourner  sur  leurs  pas,  quand  un  berger,  nomme  Martin  Alhaja,  se 
presenta  au  roi  de  Navarre,  et  offrit  d'indiquer  un  chemin  par  lequel 
1'armee  pourrait  passer  sans  obstacles :  le  roi  envoya  avec  lui  don 
Diego  Lopez  de  Haro  et  don  Garcia  Romeu.  Pour  qu'ils  retrouvas- 
sent  la  route,  Alhaja  placa  a  1'entree  du  passage  qu'il  avait  decouvert  le 
squelette  d'une  tete  de  vache  (Cabe^a  de  vaca). 

"  Le  12  du  meme  mois  les  chretiens  gagnerent  la  bataille  de  las 
Navas  de  Tolosa,  qui  assura  a  jamais  leur  suprematie  sur  les  Maures. 

"  Le  roi  recompensa  Martin  Alhaja  en  1'anoblissant  ainsi  que  sa 
descendance,  et  celui-ci  en  memoire  de  I'evenement  qui  lui  avait 
merite  cet  honneur,  changea  son  nom  en  celui  de  Cabe^a  de  Vaca." 

His  mother,  Dona  Teresa,  was  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Martin  Alaja;  but  he  was  himself  a  native  of  Xeres3, 

1  Preface,  and  ANTONIO,  Biblioth.  Hisf.  dalucia,  cap.   37,  af>.  TERNAUX.      FRANCK- 
No-va,  Vol.  i,  p.  61.  ENAU,  Bib/.  Hitpanica,  p.  255,  mentions  a 

2  Recueil ;   Paris,  1837,  p.  2.  work    concerning   the    "noble    y   antigua 

3  ARGOTE  DE  MOLINA,  Nobleza  de  An-  Casa  de  Cabe9a  de  Vaca." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  383 

and  the  grandson  of  Pedro  de  Vera,  the  conqueror  of 
the  Canary  islands. 

He  was  one  of  the  three  only  survivors  of  the  un 
fortunate  expedition  of  Pamphilio  de  Narvaez  to  Florida 
above  mentioned,  who  succeeded  in  returning  to  Spain. 
There  was  a  fourth,  a  negro,  called  Estavanico,  who 
met  a  singular  fate.  He  remained  in  this  country,  found 
his  way  into  Mexico,  and  some  years  afterward  became 
the  guide  of  Marco  de  Nizza  in  the  disastrous  expedi 
tion  to  the  unknown  town  of  Cibola.  Estevanico  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  Indians,  who  put  him  to  death, 
alleging  that  he,  a  black  man,  could  not  be  the  envoy 
of  a  race  of  whites. 

Alvarez  Nunez  died  at  a  ripe  old  age4.  We  do  not 
recollect  where  we  have  seen  it  stated  that  it  was  at 
Seville  in  1564. 

The  chief  authorities  concerning  this  daring  adven 
turer,  or  his  expeditions,  are  Schmidel5,  Gomara6,  Ben- 
zoni7,  Garcilasso  de  la  Vega8,  Herrera9,  Torquemada10, 
Charlevoix"  and  Funes12. 

This  account  was  translated  into  Italian  by  Ramusio13, 
and  paraphrased  into  English  by  Purchas14.  Ternaux 
gave  a  French  version2,  and  Mr.  Buckingham  Smith  a 
new  translation  from  the  original  Spanish15. 

The  text  was  printed  by  Barcia16,  who  availed  him 
self  of  the  opportunity  to  add  a  dissertation17  vindicating 


4  N.  DEL  TECHO,  Historia  Prov.  Para-  ix     (mentions    only    Pamphilo    de    Nar- 
quarite ;   Liege,  fol.,  1673,  lib.  i,  cap.  xiv.  vaez). 

5  Vcra    hhtoria     admirandte    eujusdam  8  Histor.  gen.  del  Peru,  lib.  i,  cap.  in. 
na-vigat.  ;   Nuremb.,  410,  1599,  cap.  xxxi.  9  Decad.  in.  lib  u,  cap.  iv  5   Decad.  iv, 
Schmidel's   account   was   inserted   for  the  lib.  iv,  cap.  4-8;  Decad.  vi,  lib.  i,  cap.  3-8. 
first  time  in  an  appendix  to  the  second  part  10  Monarquia  Indiana,  lib.  xiv,  cap.  xxn. 
of  the  Wdtbuchs,  published  at  Frankfort,  n  Histoire  da  Paraguay,  Vol.  i. 

fol.,    in   1567,  the  first  volume  of  which  12  Ensayo  de  la  hist,  civil  del  Paraguay  ,• 

is    Sebastian    Franck's   well-known    work  Buenos-Ayres,  3  vols.,  410,  1816-17. 

(supra,  No.  197).      It  was  republished  in  ls  Vol.  in,  fol.  310—30. 

German,  in   1599;  but    Hulsius,  dissatis-  14  Pi/grimes,  Part,  n,  B.  vm,  pp.  1499- 

fied  with  certain  omissions,  gave  this  Latin  1556. 

translation,  which  is  the  most  complete.  1S  Washington  city,  410,  1851,  privately 

8  Hist.  gen.  de  las    Indias,  lib.  n,  cap.  printed. 

XLVI  and  LXXIX.  18  Historiadores  Primiti-vos,  Vol.  i. 

7  Hist,  del  NUC-VO  Mondo,  lib.  n,  cap.  17  By    A.  ARDOINO. 


384  Blbliotheca  Americana. 

I  542.    Cabe9a  de  Vaca  from  the  aspersions  of  Honorio  Phili- 

,  pono18,   who    deemed    it    strange    that    our   adventurer 

should  have  presumed  to  perform  miracles,  which,  as 

everybody  knows,  is  a  privilege  belonging  exclusively 

to  the  clergy,  and  not  to  mere  "scelestos  milites." 

All  the  authors  and  bibliographers  who  mention  this 
Relation,  quote  only  the  edition  of  I55519,  which,  to 
within  a  few  years,  was  the  only  one  known. 


24O.     PTOLEMY— MUNSTER— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEOGRAPHIA  ||  VNIVERSALIS,  VETVS  ET 

NOVA,  ||  COMPLECTENS  ||  CLAVDII  PTO/  || 
LEMAEI  ALEXANDRINI  ENARATIO/  ||  NIS  LIBROS 

vin.  ||  Quorum  primus  noua  tranflatione 
Pirckheimeri  et  ||  acuffione  commentarioli 
illuftrior  quam  hade  ||  nus  fuerit,  redditus 
eft.  Reliqui  cum  graeco  &  alijs  uetuftis 
exeplaribus  col/  ||  lati,  in  infmitis  fere  locis 
caftigatiores  facli  funt.  ||  Addita  funt  in- 
fuper  Scholia,  quibus  exoleta  urbium,  || 
montium,  fluuiorum  cp  nomina  ad  noftri 
feculi  mo/ 1|  rem  exponuntur.  ||  Succedunt 
tabulae  Ptolemaicae,  opera  Sebaftiani  Mun  || 
fteri  nouo  paratae  modo.  ||  His  adieclae  funt 
plurimae  nouae  tabulae,  moderna  or/  ||  bis 
faciem  literis  &  pi6tura  explicantes,  inter 

18  In  his  curious  Nova    Tyfis  Transacta  acaesido  en  las  dos  fornados  quc  hizo  a  los 
Navigatio,  s.  1.  ibl.,  1621.  Indias ;   Valladolid,  by  Fernandez  de  Cor- 

19  La  Relacion  y  comentarios  del  go'ver-  dova,  1555.     4-to,  142  +  2  11.   (Bibliothcca 
nador  Al-var  NuKez  Catena  de  Vaca  de  lo  Broivniana,  No.  104). 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  385 

quas  ||  quaedam  antehac  Ptolemaeo  non  1542.  * 
fuerunt  additae.  ||  Vltimo  annexum  eft  com 
pendium  geographies  de/  ||  fcriptionis,  in 
quo  uarij  gentium  &  regionum  ri/ 1|  tus  & 
mores  explicantur.  ||  Praefixiis  eft  quoqj  uni- 
uerfo  operi  index  memorabiliu  ||  populo- 
rum,  ciuitatum,  fluuiorum,  montium,  ter-|| 
rarum,  lacuum  &c.  || 

BASILEAE    APVD    HENRI-  ||  CVM    PETRVM.  || 
Third  line  of  the  recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

Sebaftianus  Munfterus  in  Baiilienfi  aca- 
demia  ||  Hebraifmi  profeflbr,  S.  || 

In  fine  : 

BASILEAE    APVD    HENRICVM   PETRVM.  ||  MENSE 
MARTIO,  AN.  M  .  D  .  XLII.  ||' 

*,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -f-  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  six 
of  index  +  seventeen  leaves  +  one  blank  +  one  leaf  for 
another  title-page,  beautifully  illustrated,  on  the  reverse  of 
which  is  a  mappemund,  occupying  two  pages,  and  bearing  the 
title  of  TYPVS  VNIVERSALIS.  It  contains  "  America  seu  insula 
Brasilij,"  above  which  lie  Cuba,  Hispaniola,  Terra-Florida, 
Francisia,  between  which  and  "Terra  nova  siue  de  Bacalhos," 
runs  a  passage  labeled  "  Per  hoc  fretu  iter  patit  ad  Molucas." 
Then  twenty-two  maps,  the  seventeenth  of  which  is  the 
"  NOVAE  INSVLAE  xvii  NOVA  TABVLA,"  on  the  reverse  of  which 
is  the  description.  These  maps  are  followed  by  the  Second 
Book  of  Ptolemy,  printed  in  double  columns,  and  numbering 
from  i  to  195.  The  borders  were  designed  by  Holbein*. 

(Private  Libr.,  Brooklyn  and  Owl's  Head.) 

1  The  Athena  Raurica   (p.    24)  men-  a  RUMOHR,  Holbein;  Leipzig,  1836,  p. 

tions  "  Tabula  Ptolcmaicee,   &    appendix  114,  quoted  by  GRAESSE. 

geographic,  1 540,"  but  we  are  unable  to  *  In    RICH'S    Supplement,    page    2,    we 

ascertain  whether   the  present  edition    is  find :    "  1 54z    ISLA  :    Fruto    de   todos   los 

intended.  Santos,  Folio.    Sevilla."     This  is  only  the 

49 


386  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  543*        The  present  is  Sebastian  Munster's  edition  of  Ptolemy. 

Direct  references  :  f  HEGER,  Geogr.  Biichersaal,  —  . 

-|  HOFFMAN,  Lexic.  Bibliogr.,  Vol.  in,  page  320. 
(^  GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  p.  501. 

2-4-I.     COPERNICK  (N.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
NICOLAI    CO  ||  PERNICI  TORINENSIS  ||  DE 

REVOLVTIONIBVS  oRBi  ||  vm  coeleftium,  Libri 
vi.  ||  Habes  in  hoc  opere  iam  recens  nato, 
&  aedito  ||  ftudiofe  lector,  Motus  ftellarum, 
tarn  fixarum  ||  quam  erraticarum,  cum  ex 
ueteribus,  turn  etiam||ex  recentibus  obfer- 
vationibus  reftitutos  :  &  no-  ||  uis  infuper 
ac  admirabilibus  hypothefibus  or-  ||  natos. 
Habes  etiam  Tabulas  expediffimas,  ex  || 
quibus  eofdem  ad  quodiis  tempus  quam 
facili  ||  me  calculate  poteris.  Igitur  erne, 
lege,  fruere.  || 


Norimbergae  apud  loh.   Petreium, 
Anno   M.D.XLIII. 

*„*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  four 
for  the  index  +  one  hundred  and  ninety-six  numbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

See  in  Book  i,  cap.  in.     Quomodo  terra  ctt  aqua  unum 
globft  perficiat,  especially  the  passage  on  fol.  2  :   f  {  Magis 

work  of  the  Spanish   physician  Roderick  Todos   Santos,    o   Antidoto   cfaax  contra   el 

Diaz  or  Ruy  Diaz  de  Isla,  mentioned  by  mal  Frances  hallado,  y  dispuesto  en  el  Hos- 

ANTONIO   (Bibliot.  Hisfan.  No-va,  Vol.  u,  pital    de     Todos   Santos    de    Lisboa.      Ad 

page  264),  in  these  words  :  Joannem  in.    Portugalliae  Regum  .  Hispali 

"  Tratado  contra  las  tubas,  si-vc  Fruto  de  apud  Dominicum  Robert!  in  folio  1542." 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  387 

id  erit   clarum,   si    addantur   insulae,"   &c.,    &c.      We    1543' 
should  add,    however,    that    not    only   Schoner   corre-  • 

sponded  with  Copernick,  but  he  was  one  of  the  editors 
(Andreas  Ossiander  being  the  other)  of  this  great  work. 
He  even  paved  the  way  for  it,  several  years  in  advance, 
by  the  publication  of  a  well-known  treatise1. 

"  First  and  rarest  edition  of  this  celebrated  work.  The  author's 
real  name  was  Copernick,  or  Zopernick,  the  C  being  pronounced 
like  Tz.  He  died  24th  May,  1543,  only  a  few  hours  after  he  had 
received  the  first  copy  of  his  labors  in  print." 

(LlBRl".) 

Direct  references:  f  GASSENDI,  Tych.  Brah.  V"ita>  access.  N.  Copernici,  page  319. 
J  HUMBOLDT,  Cosmos,  Vol.  ii,  pages  68 1,  687,  note. 
(  EBERT,  Dictionary,  No.  5190. 


DOCAMPO  (F.) — Below  a  large  woodcut  of  the  arms  of  Spain: 

LiSte  patro  lifcros  primeros  tie  la  <£ro  II  nica 
general  tie  iEfpana  que  recopila  el  mae-  II  ftro 
jflortan  tio  eanpo  (sic)  eriatio  g  erontfta  trel  II  lEm^ 
petatrot  i^teg  nueftro  Mot  pot  man-  II  tratro  tie  fu 
mageftaii  pefarea.  II  iBnpamora.  Ennn  .  IE  .  B  . 
xlifj .  II 

Colophon  : 

C  jFueto  impreffns  eftog 
tie  la  (Stronica  tie  3Efyaixa  que  recoptla  el 
jFlollrtan  tio  eanpo,  Ottonifta  tie  la 
Olefarea,  en  la  magni- 1|  fica,  noBle,  g  anttptftima 
eiutiati  tie  ^amora  por  el  ijonrra  II  tio  baron  Euan 
pieartio  impreffor  tie  litros,  bejino  tie  lalltiteja 
eiutratr.  E  eofta  %  efpenfag  tiel  birtuofo  baron  ||3hian 

1  AD  CLARISS.  v.  de  Jo.  ScAoncrum,  de     dam  mathematics  studiosum  narratio  prima  ; 
libris  re-volutionum  eruditiss.  -viri  et  mathe-     Dantzick,  410,  1540. 
matici   Nicolai    Copernici   .    .  .  per   quern-         *  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  1916. 


388  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I543-  petrro  muffetti  merealrer  tre  litais  befitto  19  Iftetrina 
frel  eampo.  Eeataronfe  a  quince  ||  &tag  trel  meg  tre 
Heftemtoe.  &no  *rel  nafci  II  mieto  ire  nueftro  falu? 
atror  Jefu  ejmfto  ||  tre  mil  g  ptntentos  g  quarenta  g  || 
tres  anas,  l&egnantro  en  3Etfpa-  1|  na  ei  IBmperatror 
tron  <£ar-||l0s  nueftro  Mot  glllEU  natural.  :.||S  II 


*,,,*  Title  one  leaf+  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto  from  fol.  n  to 


fol.  ccxxxv  +  ten  unnumbered  leaves  for  the  table, 
tremely  well-printed  book. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


An  ex- 


Florian  do  Canpo1,  Docampo1,  or  de  Ocampo3,  was 
born  of  a  Portuguese  family  at  Zamorra4,  about  the  year 
I5OO5.  He  studied  at  Alcala  under  Antonio  de  Le- 
brixa,  joined  the  church,  was  appointed  in  1539  chron 
icler  of  Charles  V,  and  died  in  I5556.  Mr.  Ticknor 
says3  that  <f  the  work  of  Ocampo,  in  its  very  structure, 
is  dry  and  absurd."  At  all  events  it  contains  an  inter 
esting  chapter  (xxth  on  fol.  civ)  devoted  to  the  discovery 
of  the  islands  of  Hispaniola,  Cuba,  &c.  It  is  worthy  of 
notice  that  Columbus  is  not  mentioned  by  name.  The 
work  was  reprinted  with  additions,  Medina  del  Campo, 
fol.,  1553',  Alcala,  fol.  I5784,  and  Madrid,  10  or  only 
2  vols.  4to,  1791*. 

Direct  references:  f  FREYTAG,  Analecta,  page  198. 

MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  vi,  Part  i,  page  121. 
BAUMGARTEN,  Nachrichten  von  merkwiird.,  Vol.  i,  page  115. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  v,  page  4. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvilliana,  page  113. 


1  Title-page  and  colophon. 

9  FRANCKENAU,  Biblioth.  Hispan.^.  119. 

8  TICKNOR,  History  of  Spanish  Litera 
ture,  Vol.  n,  p.  27. 

4  ANTONIO,  Bibliotheca  Hispana  Nova, 
Vol.  i,  p.  394. 

•  "The  Cortes  of  Valladolid,  1555,  in 
their  '  Peticiones'  cxxviii.  and  cxxix.,  ask 


a  pension  for  Ocampo,  and  say  that  he  was 
then  fifty-five  years  old,  and  had  been 
chronicler  from  1539.  (See  '  Capitulos  y 
Leyes,'  Valladolid,  folio,  1558,  f.  Ixi") — 
TICKNOR,  he.  cit.,  p.  28,  n.  7. 

8  REZABAL,  Biblioteca  de  los  Escrit.  de 
los  Sets  Colegios  May  ores,  p.  237. 

7  BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  150. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  389 

24.3.     VALENCIA  (M.  DE}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

C  C<m  prwil<^i0  imperial 

Then  woodcut  of  an  escutcheon. 

(E  Hftro  llamatro  Sfteforo  fce  bittu  ||  ires  btil  & 
eopiofo.  ®opilatw  pot  bn  religiofo  portugues.  ||  tie 
la  ortre  fll  ferato  palrre  fat  fracteco  Birigtoo  al 
mug  ttueftra  II  fenor  jftanctfco  peffxia  :  teforero  fil 
mug  efclarecitro  r  inu  .  .  .  .  II 

Colophon  : 

:  g  alahatiga  de  n 

tre  fu  H3entrita  JHafcre  II  la  btr^ 
gen  fancta  Watia.  jFue  impreffall  la  prefente  otra, 
llamatra  ^Teforo  tre  bittu-  II  ttes,  en  la  billa  tre  |He= 
trtna  trel  ca  II  pn,  por  ^etrro  tre  (ttaftro  im-  II  prefer 
ire  lifam  Ecatefe  allbegente  tiias  5  <&tutre.||Mo. 
ffi  .  m  .  xliij .  II 

*  *  410,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves  -|- 
one  blank  -}-  sixty-four  unnumbered  leaves  +  leaves  numbered 
LXV-CXXXV  +  one  leaf  for  the  above  colophon. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

This  anonymous  compilation  by  a  Portuguese  monk 
of  the  Franciscan  order,  interests  us  only  on  account  of 
two  letters :  one  from  Martin  de  Valencia  forwarded  to 
the  bishop  of  Mexico  to  the  general  chapter  of  the  Fran 
ciscans  held  at  Toledo  ;  the  other,  addressed  to  the  said 
de  Valencia  by  the  friars  of  the  Franciscan  Convent  or 
Talmanaco,  dated  June  i2th,  1531.  These  two  letters 
have  also  been  inserted  in  the  Latin  Cortez  of  1532 
(supra.  No.  168),  and  in  the  Novus  Orbus  of  1555'. 

Direct  reference  :  TERNAUX,  No.  50. 
1  Fol.  665,  tq. 


39°  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

4  (MARTIN  DE)  &  A.  D. 

gloria  t)  loot 


24-4-*      VALENCIA  (MARTIN  DE)  &  A.  DE  OLAVE. 


2 

trel 

Menaueturatro  patrre  frag  &n  II  tires  tre  efpleto : 
fragle  trelos  menores  treia  ortren  II  trel  ferafico  patrre 
nueftra  taut  jfranctfco.  IBi  qual  martgrio  recitio 
enla  ctutratr  tre  jFe{  porla  bertratr  II  tre  nueftra  fagra 
fe,  a  nueue  tiias  trei  meg  tre  ||  IBnero  trel  Eno  tre 
Jft  .  H  .  :rmj .  II 

*„,*  410,  eleven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,    Providence.) 

"  This  is  an  introductory  paragraph  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf 
of  a  small  410  tract  of  1 1  unpaged  leaves,  Gothic  Letter,  without 
title,  place  of  printing,  or  date.  It  contains,  first,  the  above-men 
tioned  "  Martyrio"  written  by  F.  ANTONIO  DE  OLAVE,  dated  "  en  el 
convento  de  Setuval,"  April  10,  1532,  translated,  as  the  anonymous 
author  of  the  tract  states  (on  the  verso  of  the  2d  leaf),  by  him,  from 
an  old  sheet  which  had  been  sent  by  King  JOHN,  of  PORTUGAL,  to 
the  general  chapter  of  Franciscans,  held  at  TOLEDO  "  en  el  dia  del 
sancto  pentecostes"  Then  follows  a  letter  of  F.  MARTIN  DE  VALEN 
CIA,  sent  by  the  bishop  of  Mexico  to  the  same  chapter,  accompanied 
by  another,  addressed  to  MARTIN  DE  VALENCIA  by  the  friars  of  the 
Franciscan  convent  at  Talmanaco,  dated  June  12,  1531. 

"  The  copy  before  us  bears  the  stamp  of  Mr.  Ternaux's  collection. 
It  has  the  same  contents  as  his  No.  50,  but  a  different  title." 

(Bibliotheca  Browniana1.) 

The  present  is  not  a  separate  work,  but  simply  a  por 
tion  of  the  preliminary  part  of  the  above  No.  243. 

Direct  reference  :  TERNAUX,  Bibliotkeque  Africaine,  No.  280. 


1  First  Part,  p.  zo,  No.  72.  Giovanni  di  Sacrobusto  e  da  altri,  per  An- 

*  The  following   from  ANTHONY  BRU-  tonio  Brucioli.     In  Venezia  per  Francesco 

CIOLI,  a  well-known  "  Pestifero  Eretico,"  Brucioli,  e  Frategli  1543,  in  4." 

who  occupies  such  a  prominent  place  among  (FoNTANiNrK) 

the  "  Damnati  primes  classis,"  may  contain 

a  map  :  "  Trattato  della  Sfera,  raccolto  da  f  Bibliottca  Italiana,  Vol.  n,  p.  z6y. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  391 

2 4. j).    DIONYSIUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  C/L7.  * 

DIONYSIVS     LYBICVS    POETAE  ||  = 

DE    SITV   HABITABILIS    ORBIS  ||  A  SIMONE  LEMNIO 
POETA  LAVREATO  ||  NVPER  LATINVS  FACTVS.  || 

Then  large  woodcut,  representing  two  globes,  one  issuing  out  of 
an  open  eye,  the  other  with  the  word  AMERICA ;  and  below : 

VENETIIS    M  .  D  .  XLIII  , 

Cum  gratia  <y  priuilegio. 
In  fine  : 

Venetiis  per  Bartholomeum  cognomento  Imp  er  at  or  em  :  &\\ 
Francijcum  eius  generum  .  Anno  M  .  D  .  XLIII .  \\ 

*^*  Sm.    410 ;    title    one    leaf  +  thirty-nine    unnumbered    leaves, 
printed  in  Italics. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references:  (  HOFFMANN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  n,  pages  106-7. 
•j  BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  731. 
(  GRAESSE,  Vol.  n,  page  402. 

PIGHIUS  (A.)—"  De  cequinoftiorum  folftitiorumque 
inuentione,  et  de  ratione  Pajchalis  cekbrationis,  Paris,  8voy 

1543." 

(WATT1.) 

See,  supra,  page  180,  No.  107,  for  the  first  edition  of 
this  curious  work,  which  was  several  times  reprinted. 


1  Bibliotheca Britannica^ol.  n,col.  757.  de  Medina  d'avoir  extrait  de  la   premiere 

*   DE    MEDINA    (P.) — "  Libra    de    las  edit,  de  cet  ouvrage  tout  ce  qui  forme  le 

Grandcxas  y  cosas  memorable!  de  Espafta.  sien.      Or   comme   cette    premiere  edition 

Primum  Hispali  apud  Dominicum  de  Ro-  est  de   1544,  quoique  datee  de   1543   a  la 

bertis  1 543  .  fol."    ( ANTONIO,  Bib/.  Hisf.  fin,  il  est  fort  douteux  que  celle  de  P.  de 

Nova,  Vol.  n,  p.  215.)  Medina,  de    1543.  citee    par  Antonio,  ex- 

"  Dans  une  note  de  la  seconde  edit,  de  iste."      (BRUNET,  Vol.  HI,  col.  1572.) 

sa  Chronique,  Florian  do   Campo  accuse  P.  See,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1549. 


392 


Eibliotheca  Americana. 

r/L7  24-7 •     NUEVAS  LEYES — Under  a  beautifully  ornamented  bor- 

__^___^  der  containing  the  arms  of  Spain  : 


lagouernaciontielas 

g  fcuen  trata||miento  g  eonferuaeton  tielos 
:  que  fe  ijan  tre  guartrar  en  el  ||  confejo  g 
autriecias  reales  qt  ^w  *Ha8  refitren  :  g  pot  totros  log 
otrog  ||  gouetnatroreg  i  juefes  g  perfonas  patticu? 
late 


Colophon  : 


ortrenanfais  g  treclaracion 


trias,  s  tuen  tratamiento  tre  log  II  naturata  trellas. 
jfueron  im-||  prefag  pot  tnantratro  t»e  ||  log  Mores: 
preftoete,  g  trel  eonfejo  t»e  las  $n-  1|  titas  :  en  la 
btlla  ||  tie  Eleala  ||  tre  II  Benares  :  en  eafa  tie  Joan  II 
tie  i3rocar  a  ocijo  tiias  tiel  ||  mes  tre  Julio  tiel  ano  || 
tre  n!o  faluatiorll  Jefu 


*.,,*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  +  thirteen  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Rich  calls1  this  extremely  rare  volume  <f  the  first  col 
lection  of  printed  laws  relating  to  the  new  world,"  and 
Ternaux2  "  le  premier  recueil  qui  ait  ete  public."  These 


1  Biblioth.  Americ.  fetus,  p.  5,  No.  13.        Q  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  p.  II,  No.  49. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  393 

two  assertions  have  caused  many  readers  to  misappre- 
hend  the  real  character  of  the  work,  which  is  not  a  col- 
lection  or  a  cc  Recopilacion"  but  simply  two  ordinances 
of  Charles  V,  known  among  historians  as  the  famous 
Nuevas  Leyes,  and  which  have  been  the  cause  of  so  much 
mischief.  They  were  issued  especially  for  the  better 
treatment  of  the  Indians,  and,  we  believe,  for  limiting 
the  partitions  of  lands  among  the  conquerors.  Leon 
Pinelo  states3,  on  the  authority  of  Juan  de  Grijalva4, 
that  these  laws  "  tan  odiosas,"  were  prompted  by  the 
publication  of  the  manuscript  tract  Dies  i  seis  remedios 
contra  la  peste  que  destruye  las  Indias.  They  were  issued 
at  Barcelona,  November  2oth,  1542,  completed  at  Val- 
ladolid,  July  4th,  1543,  and  ordered  to  be  printed,  and 
enforced  immediately  throughout  the  Indies. 

The  present  is  the  first  edition  of  these  laws.  The 
second  was  published  at  Madrid  in  1585*;  the  third, 
which  we  believe  was  the  last,  at  Valladolid  in  i6c>36. 

As  to  the  Ordenanzas  of  Antonio  de  Mendoza,  we 
describe  them,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1548. 

Although  as  early  as  1556  Antonio  Maldonado  had 
proposed  to  frame  a  Repertorio  de  las  Cedulas,  and  the 
work  known  as  Pugas  Cedulario7,  which  must  be  consid 
ered  as  the  first  step  in  that  direction,  had  already  been 
published,  it  was  not  until  the  rescript  of  Philip  II,  dated 


*  Epitome,   p.    63,   Cf.     HERRERA,  De-  que  en  ellas  \\  residen  :  y  for  todos  los  otros 
cad.  vn,  lib.  vi,  cap.  x,  p.  120.  Goucrna-  \\  dores,  juezcs  y  ptrsonas  parti-  || 

*  Cronica  de  la  orden  de  S.  Augustin  en  cularcs  deltas.  ||  En  Valladolid.  ||  En  la  Im- 
las  Pro-v.  de  la  Nue-va  Espana ;   Mexico,  frenta   del  Licenciado    Varez  de   Castro.  || 
4to,  1624.  Ano  de  M .  DCIII .  \\ 

5  "LEYEs,yORDENAN9Asnuevas,hechas  *#*  Fol.  Title  i  1.  +  13  numb.  11.  +  I 

por  su  Magestad,  para  la  Governacion  de  las  blank.  B.  L. 

Indias,  i  buen  tratamiento  de  los  Indios,  que  7  Philippus  Sccundus  Hispania  \\  rum,  et 

se  ban  de  guardar  en  el  Consejo,  e  i  por  to-  Indiarum  ||  Rex.    Prouisioes,    cedulas,    In- 

dos  los  otros  Governadores,  Jueces,  i  Per-  struciones  de  su  Magestad:  Orde  \\  nan^as  de 

sonas  Particulares  de  ella,  en  Madrid,  1585.  difutos,  y  audiecia  dela  nueua  Espana  :  y  pa 

fol.  en  Casa  de  Francisco  Sanchez." — PINE-  el  hue  tratamie  ||  to  y  <)scr-vacio  <f  los  yndios 

LO-BARCIA,  Vol.  n,  col.  828.  dende    el  \\  ano    1525.    hasta    el  presente  . 

*  Leyes  y  \  Ordenan^as    Nue-va-  ||  mente  de  .   63  .  ||  En  Mexico  en  casa  \\  de  Pedro 
hechaspor  su  Mages-  \  tad,  para  la  gouer-  Ocharte  .  ||  M .  D  .  LXIII .  || 

nacio  de  las  Indias,  y  buen   tratamiento  \\y  *%*  Fol.  Title  I  1.  +  3   prel.  11.  +  207 

conservation   de  los   Indies  :  que  se  han  de  numb.  11.  B.  L. 

guardar  en  ||  el  Consejo  y  Audiencias  Reales  [Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

50 


394  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  543.  I57°J  that  an  unknown  jurist  undertook  to  compile  a 
,  general  code.  All  that  we  have  been  able  to  ascertain 
concerning  this  anonymous  collection  is,  that  the  chap 
ter  treating  of  the  Council  of  the  Indies  only  was  printed 
in  1593  (sic  pro  1573?)  Leon  Pinelo  says8  that  the 
publication  was  interrupted  by  the  death  of  the  author. 

Diego  de  Encinas  was  more  successful,  although  he 
published  only  four  volumes,  not  in  I5999,  but  in 
1596'°,  which,  however,  were  suppressed  by  the  Council 
of  the  Indies,  as  Encinas  had  prepared  them  without 
having  been  previously  authorized. 

Thus  far  those  codes  had  only  been  collections  of 
cedulas  and  ordon nances  arranged  in  alphabetical  order; 
but  as  the  number  of  laws  increased,  and,  let  it  be  said, 
with  appalling  rapidity,  it  became  necessary  to  change 
the  method,  and  adopt  a  kind  of  digest,  omitting  the 
abrogated  laws  and  abridging  those  in  force.  It  was 
only  in  1608  that  the  plan  was  thus  altered,  but  instead 
of  intrusting  the  work  to  individuals  who  acted  on 
their  own  responsibility,  as  had  been  the  case  hitherto, 
a  board  composed  of  two  members  was  created.  Four 
teen  years,  however,  elapsed  before  any  appointment 
was  made.  Finally  in  1622,  Rodrigo  de  Aguiar  and 
Leon  Pinelo  commenced  the  first  volume,  but  instead 
of  continuing  the  work,  they  published  in  1628  a 
Sumario  or  abridgment  for  the  private  use  of  the  mem 
bers  of  the  Council11.  Aguiar  died,  and  the  entire 

8  loc.  cit.,  p.  120.  en  ellas.     Sacado  to  Jo  ello  de  los  libros  del  \\ 

'  LEON  PINELO,  loc.  cit.,  p.  121;  BARCIA  dicho   Consejo  par  su  mandado,  para  que  se 

even  says  (Epitome,  Vol.  n,  col.  821)  that  sepa,  cnticnda,  y  se  tenga  no-  ||  ticia  de  lo  que 

it  contains  ordonnances  of  this  date.  cerca  dello  esta"  proueydo  despucs  que  se  ||  des- 

10  Pro-visiones  ||  ced-vlas,  capifvlos  de  ||  or-  cubrieron  las  Indias  ||  hasta  agora.  \\  En  Ma- 

dcnan$as,    instructions!,  y  cartas,  libradas  y  drid.  ||  En  la  Imprenta  Real.  ||  M.D.XCVI. 

des-  ||  pachadas  en  diferentes  tiempos  for  sus  Folio.  Vol.  I.  14   prel.  11.  +  462  pp.    Vol. 

Magcstadcs  de  \\  los  seftores  Reyes   Catolicos  ji,    14   prel.   11.  +  382    pp.     Vol.  in,   13 

don  Fernando  y  dona  Tsabel,  y  Emperador  ||  prel.    11.  +  482    pp.      Vol.    iv,    10    prel. 

don  Carlos  de  gloriosa  memoria,y  dona  luana  11.  +  41  (j  pp." 
su  madre,  y    Catolico  Rey  don  ||  Felipe,  con  [Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

acuerdo  de   los  senores  Presidentes,  y  de  su         n  Svmarios\\de  la^Rccopilacion  gencral\\de 

Consejo  Real  de  las  In  ||  dias,  que  en  sus  tiem-  las  Leyes,  Ordenan^as,  Pro-visiones,  Cedvlas, 

pos  ha    auido    tocantes  al  buen  gouierno  de  Instrucciones  y    Cartas  \\  Acordadas,  que  par 

las  Indias,  _y  ||  administration  de  la  justicia  los  Reyes   Catolicos  de   Castillo  se  han  pro- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  395 

work  devolved  on  Leon  Pinelo.     It  was  in  the  course  I  54.3. 
of  these  preparations  that  the  Father  of  American  Bib-  _.-...-__ 
liography  perused  "  quinientos  libros  Reales  de  cedulas, 
manuscritos;  i  en  ellos  mas  de  ciento  y  veinte  mil  hojas, 
i  mas  de  trecientas  mil  decisiones11." 

In  1634,  Leon  Pinelo  had  accomplished  his  task;  but 
the  compilation  remained  in  manuscript.  We  think 
that  he  died  soon  afterwards,  for  we  find  Juan  de  Solor- 
zano  Pereira  appointed  to  continue  the  work.  Nothing 
more  was  done  until  1660,  when  a  new  board  or  Junta 
de  la  Nueva  Recopilacion  de  Indias  was  appointed.  They 
completed  the  code  to  the  year  1680,  and  it  was  finally 
promulgated  by  royal  decree  May  i8th,  i68in.  Four 
years  before,  however,  Juan  Francisco  de  Montemayor 
y  Cordova,  who  was  already  known  by  his  Mexican 
reprint  of  the  Sumario  of  1628,  had  published  two  Sum 
maries14  which  have  since  become  extremely  rare ;  but 
these  could  supply  the  place  only  temporarily  of  a  gen 
eral  code. 

In  the  great  Recopilacion  just  mentioned,  the  laws 
relating  to  the  Indies  are  divided  into  forty  chapters, 
each  law  bearing  in  the  margin  the  name  of  the  king 

mulgado  .   .   .   .  par  las  Indias  Occidentals,  third,    1774,  the  fourth,   1794,  the  fifth 

Is/as  y  Tierra  Firme  del  mar  \\  Occano  ....  and  last,   1841.     BRUNET  mentions  (Vol. 

Par  el  Licenciado  Don  Rodrigo  de  Aguiar  y  iv,  col.  1138)  an  edition  of  1754,  which 

Acuna  ;   Madrid,  by  Juan  Gonzales,  1628,  does  not  exist. 

fol.,  8  prel.  11.  +  1/8  pp.  +  4  11.  14  Sumarios   de   las    Ccdulas,    Ordcncs  y 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.]  Pro-visiones  Reales,  que  se  hart    despacbado 

Reprinted  in  Mex.,  fol.,  1677,  8  +  385  11.  for  su  Magestad  para  la  Nuc-va  Espana,y 

ia  Epitome,  p.  123.  otras  paries;   espccialementc  desde  el  ano  de 

18  Recopilacion  ||  de   leyes  de   los  reynos  ||  mil  seiscientos  y  -veinto  ocho,  en  que  se  im- 

de  las  Indias.  ||  Mandadas  imprimir,  y  p-vb-  primieron  los  quatro  Libros,  del  primer   to- 

licar  ||  for  la  Magestad  Catolica  del  Rey  ||  mo  de  la  Recopilacion  de  las  Lcyes  de  Indias, 

Don  Carlos  II.  ||  N'vestro  Seftor.  \\  i>a  divi-  hasta  el  ano  de   mil  seiscientos  y  sesenta  y 

dida  en  q-vatro  tomos,  \\  con  el  Indict  general,  siete  ;  Mexico,  fol.,  1678,  9  +  2,76  11. 

y  al  principio  de  cada  Tomo  el  Indict  \\  ape-          — Recopilacion  Sumaria  de  algunos  autos 

cial  de  los  titulos,  que  contiene.\\  Tomo  pri-  acordados  de  la  Real  Audiencia  y  Chancil- 

mero.  \\  En  Madrid:  Par  1-vlian  de  Paredes,  leria  de  la  Nue-va  Esfana,  que  rende  en  la 

Ano  de   1 68 1.      Fol.,  Vol.  i,   6  11.  +  300  ciudad  de   Mexico  para  la  mejor  expedicio 

pp.      Vol.  u,  3  11.  +  299  pp.      Vol.  HI,  3  de  los  negocios  de  su  cargo,  desde  el  ano  de 

11.  +  302  pp.      Vol.  iv,  2  11.  +  145  pp.  +  mil  quinietos  y  veinte  y  ocho  en  que  sefundo 

220  pp.  for  index.  hasta  este  presente  ano  de  mil  seiscientos  y 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.]  setenta  y  siete,  con  las  ordenan^as  para  su 

The  second  edition  is  dated   1756,  the  Govierno.     Fol.,  sine  anno  out  loco,  60  11. 


396  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

who  promulgated  it,  and  the  date.     Senor  Icazbalceta 
.  writes  to  us  that : 

"Ce  code  qui,  sous  une  forme  ou  sous  1'autre,  a  regi  1'Amerique 
pendant  trois  siecles,  est  encore  partiellement  en  vigueur  chez  nous. 
II  n'a  jamais  etc  positivement  abroge,  mais  le  temps,  et  surtout  les 
changements  politiques  qui  ont  eu  lieu,  en  ont  rendu  caduques  toutes 
les  dispositions.  Les  avis  sur  le  merite  de  ce  code  sont  tres  partages. 
On  doit  le  juger  d'apres  1'esprit  du  temps,  et  non  d'apres  nos  idees 
modernes.  C'est  toujours  un  monument  venerable  et  qui  devra  etre 
etudie  par  tous  ceux  qui  voudront  connaitre  1'histoire  de  1'Amerique." 

As  to  the  Nuevas  Leyes,  there  is  a  reliable  extract  in 
Herrera15,  and  an  interesting  account  in  Remesal16. 
Senor  Icazbalceta  will  publish  in  the  forthcoming  second 
volume  of  his  Colecdon  the  entire  text,  copied  from  the 
notorial  act  concerning  the  announcement  of  those  laws 
by  the  public  herald  in  Mexico,  May  24th,  1544. 

Direct  references:  I"  Bibliotheca  Gren-vil/iana,Part  n,  p.  250  (copy  printed  on  vellum). 
•^    Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  20,  No.  71. 
I   Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1731. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  1042. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  iv,  page  193. 

248.  HENRICI  ||  GLAREANI  HELVETII,  || 
POETAE  LAVREATI  DE  GEOGRA  ||  phia  Liber 

unus,   ab   ipfo    Authore   iam    no  ||  uiffime 
recognitus.  || 

Vignette,  a  hand  cutting  a  Gordian  knot. 

^f  FRIBVRGI  BRISGOIAE  ||  Stephanus  Mele- 
chus  Grauius  excu-  ||  debat,  Anno  M  .  D . 
XLIII .  || 

*„.*  410,  title  one  leaf+  thirty-five  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  fol.  35,  and  supra,  page  262. 

Direct  references  :  f  Bibliotheca  Barloioiana,  — . 

-|  Bibliotheca  Americana  Primordia,  page  12. 
(TROMEL,  No.  12. 

16  Decade  vn,  lib.  vi,  cap.  5,  pp.  1 10 — 1 1 3.         "  Hist,  de  Chiapas,  Lib.  iv,  cap.  10. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  397 

249'     ZUMARRAGA  (J.}—  Within  an  escutcheon  and  border  :         I 

jjotinm  to*  tmtg  j>-  11 

uecfjofa  tre  lag  cofas  q  ptene-  II  cen  a  ia  fe  catijolica 
g  a  nfa  cri||ftian  tratr  en  eftilo  llano  pa  co-limit 
inteligecia.  Otopuefta  pot  II  el  laeueretriffimo  .  g>  . 
tro  frag  II  3M  pumartaga  primer  otpo  II  5  We.ttco. 
Bel  cofejo  5  fu  ma  II  geftatr.  $mjpffa  e  la  mifma 
ciu-  II  tratr  U  JEexico  por  fu  matratro  II  g  a  fu  cofta. 


Colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  fourth  leaf  of  signature  I  : 

IT  &1jora  g  alatan^a  tre  n!o  fenor  iPefu  Xpo  g  tie 
la  gllo-  II  fa  birge  fancta  Warta  fu  matrre  :  aq  fe 
acata  el  prefen-  1|  te  tratatrc.  iBl  pal  fue  bifto  g 
examinatro  g  corregi||tro  por  matratro  Ul  .  ia  .  S>  . 
3io  frag  $uan  ^umar||raga:  primer  ©ttfpo  tre 
ifEexico  :  g  tiel  eofejo  :  5  fu  JEageftatr. 
pmiofe  enfta  gra  ciu||tratr  3  s:enuci)titla 
trefta  nueua  ||  iBfpafta  :  en  cafa  tre  Jua  croberger 
por  ||  matratro  fll  mifmo  feftor  obpo  lio  II  frag  Jua 
eumarraga  g  a  fu  eofta,  II  Ecabofe  tre  imprimir  a  . 
xiiij  .  II  trias  trel  mes  tre  Junto  :  trel  II  ano  tre  M  .  tr  . 
quare  II  ta  g  qtro  anos.  || 

e 

*#*  410,  eighty-four  unnumbered  leaves  ;  signatures  A-LIIII. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 


Direct  references:  (  Bulletin  du  Bibliophile  for  1859,  page  183. 

<  Diccionario  Univ.  de  Hist.y  Geograf.,  Vol.  v, 


page  962. 


Crijwrttto 


398  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

GERSON  (J.)— Within  a  border: 

<£i)rifttaniffimo 
'  g  confolatollrio 
tioetor  3hian  (feerfon  tie  ||  tioetrina  Cftriftiana:  a 
qual- 1|  piera  mug  guecfjofa.  Era-  II  tiu^itio  tie  latt 
en  legua  (ftaflltellana  para  el  tie  fl  mucijog||neceg= 
fario.  impreffo  en  Mt-  \\  xico :  en  cafa  tie  $uan 
crom-llterger.  $or  matiatro  g  a  cof||ta  tiel  i& .  g . 
otifpo  tie  la  mef||ma  ciutiati  dfrag  $ua  pumarll 
raga  .  Heutfto  g  ezaminatio  ||  por  fu  mantiatio .  || 
Mo  tie ,  ffi  .  ti .  xliiij .  || 

Colophon : 

If  Ecatofe  el  Cripartito  tie  $uan||  gerfon:  a  gloria 
g  loor  tie  la  fanctiffima  trtnitiati :  g  fl  ||  la  facratif^ 
fima  birge  fancta  Plaria  regna  S  log  an- 1|  geleg. 
I?  tie  loss  gloriofiffimog  fant  $uan  USaptifta :  II 
^  fant  Eofepf).  g  fant  jfracifco.  iBl  pal  fe  im? 
pri- 1|  mio  en  la  gra  ciutiati  5  Cenucf)tiltlan  JHexico 
tie  II  fta  nueua  SBfpana  en  cafa  tie  $ua  croterger  q 
tiiog  ||  aga  .  Ecatofe  tie  imprimir  .  Mo  tie  .  IE  .  ti . 
xliitj .  II 

%.*  410,  twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves,  thirty-three  lines  to  a 
full  page.  Long  lines,  no  catch-words,  signatures  a,  b,  c,  in 
eights,  d,  in  fours.  The  colophon  is  on  the  verso  of  the  last 
leaf.  Large  woodcut  on  the  verso  of  the  title-page. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

Direct  references :  I  Bulletin  du  Bibliophile,  1859,  page  183. 
(  Diccionario  Univ.  de  Hist,  y  Geogr. 

A  copy  of  this  and  of  the  above  No.  249,  were  dis 
covered  a  few  years  ago  in  a  curiosity  shop  at  Toulouse. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  399 

2  CI.     CORDOVA  (P.  DE)—  Within  an  ornamented  border  :  I  C  A.A.t 

ffi  ©  Potritw  rjjnana  per  "  " 

inftructon  r  informaeto  tielos  intii-llos:  par  manera 
tie  ijgftorta  .  <£om-  1|  puefta  pot  el  mug  reuerentio 
patire  |frag  ^etiro  tie  &orirmia:  tie  tuena||me= 
moria:  primero  funtiatwr  flla  or||tien  tielos 
tiicatiores  elag  gflaslltreimat  ©ceano  :  g  por 
reltgio  ||  fog  troctos  33la  tnifma  ortre.  Ea  ql 
ttina  fue  btfta  g  examinatra  g  a  p  II  uatra  pot  ei 
mug  .  %l  .  £  .  el  licecia  1  1|  tro  ^Eello  tre  Satroual 
Jnqutfttatror  en  efta  nueua  iEfpafta  II  per  fu  M&z 
geftatr.  Ha  qual  fue  em-  II  preffa  en  ffitxiw  par 
mantratro  trel  ||  mug  .  H  .  §b  .  tio  frag  $ua  pumar^ 
ta-Hga  pmer  otifpo  trefta  eiutiatr  :  trel  co  llfejo  tie  fu 
J&ageftafc  .  re  .  g  a  fu  tofta.  II  Uno  tre  .  ffi  .  tr  .  xlttij.  || 
preuilegio  *e  fu  .  £  .  2,  .  H 


.....  Jmpreffa  en  la  grange  g  mas  leal  ciutratr 
tre  iWe-  1|  xiw  :  en  eafa  tie  $uan  Otromterger  :  que 
faneta  gloria  aga  a  eofta  tiel  tiidjo  fenor  otpo. 

.....  Ecatofe  tie  tmprimir  .  Eno  tie  M  .  ti  .  artiij  .  || 

*^*  410,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-nine  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence  and  Mexico.) 

"  Petrus  de  Corduba,  ein  spanischer  Dominicaner  von  Corduba, 
welches  auch  sein  Geschlechts-Nahme  war,  gebohren  um  1460,  stu- 
dirte  zu  Salamanca  die  Rechte,  trat  aber  hernach  daselbst  irx  obge- 
dachten  Orden,  gieng  1510  als  Missionarius  nach  Domingo,  wurde 
Provincial  seines  Ordens,  schrieb  el  vocabulario  en  lengua  zapoteca, 
und  starb  den  29  Jun.  1525." 

(JdCHER1.) 

1  Allgtmtina  Gelehrt.  Lcxic.t  Vol.  in,  col.  1462. 


400  Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  544'        We  om^t  t^6  l°ng  colophon  at  the  end,  which  con- 

-  tains  the  imprint. 


Direct  references :  (  Bibliotheca  Hcbcriana,  Part  vn,  No.  4780. 
Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  ai,  No.  73. 
RICH,  page  5,  No.  14. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  464. 


252.     FRISIUS  (G.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

^GEMMA 

PHRYSIUS    DE    PRINCI- 

pijs   aftronomiae   &  Cofmographie, 

Deqg  vfu  Globi  ab  eodem  edi- 

ti.    Item  de  Orbis  diuifione, 

&  Infulis,  rebufcg  nu- 

per  inuentis. 

Then  woodcut  of  a  mounted  globe  and: 

fi@r  Antuerpiae  excudebat  Ioannes||  Rich 
ard.  An  .D.i  544  .  || 

Colophon  : 

C  Antuerpise  typis  excudebat  ||  loannes 
Grauius .  Anno  .  ||  M  .  D  .  XLIIII .  || 

*„,*  Small  8vo  ;  title  one   leaf  +  eighty-eight  unnumbered  leaves 
+  three  for  tables. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See 

"  €  Caput .  xxx  .  De  America.  '  Amer 
ica  ab  inuentore  Amerio  [sic]  Vefputio 
nomen  habet/  "  &c. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

253.     APIANUS—  FRISIUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

La  Colmographie  de  Pierre 

Apian,  libure  trefutile  traiclant  de  toutes 
les  regions  &  pays  ||  du  monde  par  artifice 
Aftronomicque,  nouuellemet  traduicl:  ||  de 
Latin  en  Francois.  Et  par  Gemma  Fri- 
fon  Mathema-||ticien  &  Docteur  en  Medi 
cine  de  Louuain  corrige.  || 

Auecq  aultres  libures  du  mefme  Gemma  Fr.  appartenantz  || 
audicl:  artifice,  come  la  page  enfuyuante  la  declaire.  || 

Then  woodcut  of  a  mounted  globe,  below  which  M  .D.XLIIII.  and: 

^f  On  les  vend  en  Anuers  fur  le  pont  de 
chambre  chez  Gregoire  Bonte  ||  a  1'efcu 
de  Bafle,  imprimez  en  Latin,  Francois,  & 

Flameng.  || 

i 

Colophon  : 

^f  Abfolut  eft  cest  oeuure  Cofmographicque  de  Peere  Apian, 
auecq  aul  ||  tres  liures  de  la  mefme  fcience,  Aux  defpens  com- 
muns  de  Gemma  ||  Frifon,  &  Gregoire  Bonte.  Imprimes  en 
Anuers  ||  par  Gillis  de  Dieft,  au  moys  Daouft.  ||  .  1544  •  ||  22'  || 


*  * 
* 


Elongated  410  ;  title  one  leaf  -f-  one  unnumbered  leaf  +  leaves 
numbered  III-LXV  -\-  °ne  unnumbered  leaf  with  printer's  mark 
on  the  verso.  Many  woodcuts ;  revolving  diagrams  on  verso 
of  leaves  xi,  xm,  XLIX,  and  recto  of  ^XLVIII.  Mappemund 
covering  verso  of  xxv  and  recto  of  xxvi,  inscriptions  in  Latin 
and  Dutch  ;  word  AMERICA  inscribed. 


Direct  references:  f  Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  page  24,  No.  zio. 
^  BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  342. 
(  GRAESSE,  Vol.  i,  page  159. 

51 


402  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  544*  2^4*     DE  LERfTIS  OR  RIKEL— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

<[  lEfte  eg  bn  eopetrio  foreue  que  traeta  18  la  II 
nera  ire  eomo  fe  p  ire  fjajer  las  pceffto  line*  : 
puefto  pot  Hionifio  l&tcfjel  eartu  II  xano :  5  efta  e 
latt  e  la  pmera  pte  fl  fug  pctofog  II  opufculog :  ro= 
manpatro  pa  comu  btilttratr.  II 

Then  the  text  on  the  same  page. 
Colophon  : 

(E  &pra  g  gloria  tre  n!o  feftor  $efu  a:jpo  g  fl  la 
bttge  fcta  JHa- 1|  ria  fu  ntatrre :  atjui  fe  aeata  efte 
ireue  copentrio  i  pe  ttaeta  tre  la  II  tnanera  que  fe  f)a 
tre  tenet  en  el  fja^er  tre  lag  ^roceffioneg.  iBlll  pal 
fe  imprtmio  en  efta  gran  ettrtrair  5  ®:entici)titlan 
iftlej:tco  II  fcefta  nueua  IBfpana  por  mantratro  tiel 
mug  reueretio  feftor  iron  ||  jFrag  $ua  pumarraga : 
pmer  ©tifpo  tre  la  mifma  ciutratr.  23 el  II  eofejo  tre 
fu  mageftatr .  xt  g  a  fu  cofta  .  IBn  eafa  tre  $uan 
eromier  II  ger  .  ^Ifto  tre .  ffi  .  H  .  xltiij .  II 

*#*  410,  signature  a  in  eight,  b,  in  four,  twelve  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

We  suppose  this  Richel  to  be  the  Denys  Leewis  men 
tioned  by  Foppens1  and  Fabricius2,  known  among  the 
scholastics  as  the  Doctor  extaticus.  This  prolific  mystic 
was  born  at  Rickel  in  Belgium,  in  1394,  and  died  in 
1471.  He  belonged  to  the  order  of  the  Carthusians, 
and  his  Speculum  was  the  first  work  printed  in  Belgium3. 

Direct  references:  (  Mondidier  Catalogue,  page  98,  No.  1872. 

\  Dicionario   Uni-v.  de  Histor.  y  Gcogr.,  Vol.  v,  page  961. 

1  Bibliotheca  Bclgica,  Vol.  i.  p.  241.  •  LA    SERNA    SANTANDER,  Dictionnaire 

"  Bibl.  med.  et  infm.  Lat.,  Lib.  iv,  p.  95.     Bibliografhique,  Vol.  i,  p.  293. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  403 

2CJ5.     DE  LEEWIS  OR  RIKEL—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  1 

C  HEfte  eg  bn  copetrto  treue  que  tracta  flla  manera 
tre  como  fe  ija  tie  ijajer  lag  pceffioueg  :  ampuefto 
per  Biomfto  Midjel  cartuzano  :  q  efta  e  latt  e  la 
jpmera  pte  5  fugs  pciofos  opufculos  :  tomanpatro  pa 
eomu  btilitratr. 

Colophon  : 

(E  Eq  fe  aeata  efte  tteue  copetrio  ire  Btongfic 
cartuxano  :  co  la  afctcion  tre  los  II  argutnetos  co  fuss 
tefpueftas  .  &c  .  q  trata  tre  lo  q  es  matratro  g  betratro 
e  lag  p  II  cetttoes  :  e  efpecial  e  la  5  (Corpus  Xpl  : 
pot  cuga  caufa  fe  totnapo.  $mjpffa  e  mext  II  co 
por  matratro  fll.  s.  dtp  to  frag  $ua  pumarraga  :  e 
cafa  fl  $ua  croterger  .  || 


*+*  410,  //'/?^  ^»»^,  sixteen  leaves  instead  of  twelve  like  the  above, 
owing  to  a  long  exhortation  at  the  end,  wherein  it  is  stated 
that  the  present  is  a  second  edition  of  the  above  No.  249. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 
Direct  reference:  Dicionario  Uni-v.  de  Hist.y  Geogr.t  Vol.  v,  page  962. 

256.  (BIONDO  M.A.}—"  M.  A.  Blondi  De  Ventu  et 
navigatione,  cum  defcriptione  a  Gadibus  ad  Novum 
Orbem.  Venetiis^  1544,  in-8." 

(BRUNET1.) 

See,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1  546. 


2^y.  MAFFEI  OF  roLTERRd—"  Commentarii  rerum 
urbanarum,  lib.  xxxvm.  cum  Oeconomico  Xenophon- 
tis.  Baftl  .  per  Frobenium,  1544,  fol." 

(FABRICIUS*.) 
1  Manuel,  Table,  No.  1977*.  "  B'tbL  Lot.  MeJ.,  Vol.  vi,  p.  142. 


404  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2^8.     MUNSTER   (SEE  AST.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


COSMOGRAPHIA. 

aUet  genber 

<Setiafttanmn  9&htnftetnm  in  metier  6ea,tiffen  1  1|  fitter 
toolrfet,  §ettfrf)afften  1  1|  @tetten,  tmb  namljttfftiget  flerfen 
Ijethnnen  :  ||  bitten  fldiveitti)  t  otbnnng  \  glaukn  ;  fcctcn  i  tiub 
Ijantie-llrwngibntdj  bie  gan^e  toeltitmb  fittnem-  1|  lidj 
Seittfdjet  nation.  ||  Sl*ag  anrli  liefnnbeto  in  iebent  lanbt 
gefnnbem  ||bnnb  bavin  bcfrfjcnfeij.  ||  Cilice  mit  ftpven 
tinb  f^anen  (anbt  fatten  evKettmnb  fnr  angen  gcftelt..  || 
©etrntft  jn  Safe!  bnv^  §enria^nm  ||  gJetvi.  5(nno 


*„,*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf,  +  six  preliminary  leaves,  +  twenty-four 
woodcut  maps  of  two  leaves  each  +  pages  numbered  to  dclix. 
Mappemund,  with  the  words  :  America  sen  insula  Brasilij, 
and  map  xxiiij,  with  the  following  inscription  on  the  verso  : 


netoe  ||  toelbt  bet  gtoffen  ||dnb  uiicn  jnjVl!  fen  tion 
ben  S^ja  ||  nietn  gefnnben.  || 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York.) 


See  the  chapter  Son  ben  nettfoen  infeln  from  leaf 
DCXXXVI  to  leaf  DCXLIJ, 

SEBASTIAN  MUNSTER  was  born  at  Ingleheim  in  1489, 
and  died  of  the  plague,  at  Basle,  in  May,  1552.  He  was 
a  most  prolific  author  (forty  printed  works  ;  see  the  list 


*  AngHce :  Cosmography.     Description  tion.     Also,  which  particulars  have  been 

of  all    countries,    by    Sebastian    Miinster,  found   in   each   country   and    therein    ob- 

wherein  are  contained  the  origin,  customs,  served.     All    explained    by  drawings    and 

habits,  laws,  creeds,  sects  and  occupations  fine    maps,    and    placed    before    the    eye. 

of  all  nations,  governments,  cities  and  re-  Printed  at  Basil,  by  Henry  Petri,  in  the 

markable  towns  through  the  whole  world,  year  1 544. 
and  particularly  through  the  German  na- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  405 

in   HEGER'),  and  not  only  a  great  mathematician  and     I  544' 
cartographer,  but  one  of  the  best  Hebrew  scholars  of  — 

his  time  :  "  Germanorum  Esdras  hie  Straboque  conditur1'" 
says  his  epitaph.  Modest  and  learned,  this  good  and 
conscientious  man  did  not  escape  the  centure  of  a  cer 
tain  school  of  critics. 

The  Athenae  Rauricae*  mentions  editions  of  this  work, 
"  Lat.  1543  .  1545  .  1550  .  Germ.  1544  .  1546  .  1550  . 
1559  .  1564  .  1578  .  1621  .fol" 

Extended  extracts  have  been  published  in  English4. 
Brunet  mentions5  an  Italian  translation,  under  the  date 
of  1558,  printed  by  Petri,  at  Basle.  The  French  edi 
tion,  by  Belleforest6,  is  well  known. 

Direct  references:  f  STRUVE,  Biblioth.  Histor.  Select.,  cap.  xvi.,  page  761. 
Catalog.  Biblioth.  Buna-v.,  Vol.  n.,  page  35. 
NAPIONE,  Del  Primo  Scopitrore,  pages  8—14,  21- 26. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1954. 


259.  GLAREANUS  (HENRY  LORiT.)—"  De  Geographia 
liber  unus  ab  ipfo  aucthore  jam  tertio  recognitus.  Ve- 
netiis,  apud  Petrum  et  Jo.  Mariam  fratres  et  Cornelium 
nepotem  de  Nicolinis  de  Sabio,  ad  inftantiam  Mel- 
chioris  SefTae,  anno  Dm  M  .  D  .  XLIV,  in  8°." 

(LANCETTI1.) 

1  Geogr.  Buchersaal,  Vol.  i.,  pp.  79-140.  the    Cosmographye    of  Sebastian    Munster; 

8  "Here  lies  the  Esdras  and  Strabo  of  London,  i6mo,  1574,  101  11.  (Bibl.  He- 

the  Germans."  beriana.) 

8  Page  24.  8  Manuel,  Vol.  in,  col.,  1945. 

*  A  treaty  se  of  the  ncivc  India  with  other  *  La  Cosmographie  uni-vcrscllc  de  tout  le 

neive  founde  landes  and  Ilandcs,  as  'well  monde  ....  Auteur  en  partie  Munster, 

eastivarde  as  ivestivarJe,  as  they  are  knoivcn  mais  beaucoup  plus  augmentee  ornee  et  en- 

and  founde  in  these  oure  days,  after  the  de-  richie  par  F.  de  Belleforest,  tant  de  let 

scripcion  of  Sebastian  Munster  in  his  boke  recherches,  comme  de  faide  de  plusieurs  me- 

of  uniuersall  cosmographie  ;  London,  by  moires  par  hommes  amateurs  dePhhtoire  et 

Edward  Sutton,  izmo,  1553,  102  pp.  de  leur  patrie ;  Paris,  z  vols.,  fol.,  1575. 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.]  [Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.] 

— A  briefe  Collection  and  compendious  7  Memorie  Intorno  at  poet!  Laureati ; 

Extract  of  straunge  Thinges,  gathered  out  of  Milan,  1839,  8vo,  page  348. 


406  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

26o.     GIAMBULLARI  (P.  F.}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

PIER    FRAN  ||  CESCO    GIAMBVL  ||  LARI 

ACCADEMI-  ||  CO   FIOR.  || 

De'l  Sito,  Forma,  &  Mifure,  dello  ||  Inferno  dl  Dante.  || 
Then  oblong  vignette  representing  Noah's  ark,  with  the  motto  : 

L'ACQVA  CH'  10  PRENDO  GIAMAI  NON  si  CORSE. 

In  Firenze  per  N'eri  Dortelata  M.D  .  XLIIII  . 

*i*  Sm.  8vo  ;  title  one  leaf,  -f-  pages  numbered  from  3  to  153,4- 
a  table  of  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves,  -|-  leaf  with  register, 
and  vignette  on  the  verso. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York.) 

This  work,  from  one  of  the  founders  of  the  famous 
Academy  of  La  Crusca,  is  certainly  curious  and  inter 
esting  (especially  to  philologists,  on  account  of  the 
introduction  of  accents  for  the  purpose  of  showing  the 
pronunciation  of  the  Florentines),  but  it  requires  no 
little  stretch  of  imagination  to  place  it  among  the  books 

O  L  O 

relating  to  America,  on  the  strength  of  a  small  fanciful 
map  on  page  18,  which  exhibits  on  the  West  a  kind  of 
promontory  with  the  inscription  :  TERRA  INCOGNITA, 
and  on  the  South  :  MONTE  DEL  PVRGATORIO. 

Direct  references:  f  Bibliothcca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  1816. 
NEGRI,  istor.  de  Fiorent.  Scritt.,  page  453. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  1582. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  in,  page  78. 


1545.          26l.    FERRER  (JAIME.)—11  Scntendas  catholicas  del  Divi 
-poet  a  Dant. 

"  Barcelona,  —  I545«" 

"  Cartas  del  gran  Cardenal  de  Espana  y  de  los  Reyes  Catbolicos  a 
Mosen  Jaime  Ferrer  ;  las  contestations  de  este  y  su  dictamen  sobre  la 
partition  del  mar  Oceano  con  el  Rey  de  Portugal;  y  otra  carta  de  Ferrer 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  407 

a  D.  Cristobal  Colon.  (Hallanse  impresas  en  Barcelona  el  afio  mil 
quinientos  cuarenta  y  cinco  en  el  raro  libro  que  compile  el  mismo 
Ferrer  y  titulo  Sentencias  catbolicas  del  Divi  poeta  Dant.") 

(NAVARRETE*.) 

See  in  Navarrete's  Coleccion,  Ferrer's  letter  "  Al  muy 
magnifico  y  spetable  Senor  el  Senor  Almirante  de  las  Indias^ 
en  la  gran  isla  de  Ciban"  dated  August  5th,  1495. 

This  James  Ferrer  de  Blanes  (who  should  not  he 
mistaken  for  another  James  Ferrer,  /.  £,  Jacques  Ferer, 
the  discoverer  or  supposed  discoverer  of  Cape  Boja- 
dor2)  seems  to  have  been  a  native  of  Catalonia,  a  cos- 
mographer  by  taste  and  a  jeweler  by  occupation.  The 
only  traces  we  could  find  of  this  mysterious  personage, 
who,  together  with  Pighius,  gave  us  more  trouble  than 
all  the  authors  cited  in  the  Bibliotheca  together,  are  in 
dialogue  XLV  of  Oviedo's  ^fuincuagenas*,  where  he  is 
made  one  of  the  interlocutors  ;  and  the  following  ex 
tract,  the  discovery  of  which  we  cannot  but  compare  to 
the  finding  of  a  needle  in  a  hay-stack  : 

"  lacobus  (Mosen  laume)  Ferrer  de  Blanes.  Catalunus  sub  Regi- 
bus  Catholicis  Ferdinando  &  Elisabetha  scripsisse  dicitur  Lemosino 
sermone  :  Sentencies  Catoliques  del  Divi  Poeta  Dant  anno  MDXLV. 
(alicubi)  editas :  quode  D  Thomas  Ant.  Sanchez  Syll.  Poem.  Hisp. 
ann.  MD.  T.  I.  Pro/eg,  pag.  xxvn.  seq" 

(ANTONIO*.) 

262.     APIANUS  (P.}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

+?  COSMOGRAPHIA  ||  PETRI  APIANI, 
PER  GEMMAM  FRisivM  ||  apud  Louanienfes 
Medicum  &  Mathematicu  infignem,||iam 
demum  ab  omnibus  vindicata  mendis,  ac 
non-||nullis  ipfius  quoq;  locis  au&a.  Ad- 
ditis  eiufdem  argu-  ||  menti  libellis  ipfius 
Gemmae  Frifii.  || 

i  Coleccion,  Vol.  n,  page  97.  J  apud  CLEMENCIN. 

i  NAVARRETE,  Discrtacion  sobre  la  His-  4  Bibliotheca  Hisfania  fetus,  Vol.  u, 
tor.  de  la  Nautica,  page  120.  p.  337,  note. 


408  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

54*5*         Then  a  large  mounted  sphere,  and: 

M  .  D  .  XLV  .  ||  Vaeneunt  Antuerpiae  fub 
fcuto  Bafilienfi,  Gregorio  Bontio.  || 

Colophon  : 

«4£  Excufum  Antuerpiae,  opera  Aeg  . 
Diefthemij  ||  Anno  a  Chrifto  humanae  falu- 
tis  ||  Authore  nato,  ||  .  1 545  .  || 

*„.*  410,  title  one  leaf-|-  sixty-six  numbered  leaves  for  text;  on 
the   verso    of  the    last,   printer's    mark  with   the   quotation : 

GRAVIORA   .   LEGIS    MISERICORDIA,    FIDES,    IVDICIVM.   MAT.   XXIII   . 

Three  revolving  diagrams  (on  folios  28,  49,  and  verso  of  ll) ; 
large  mappemund,  folded,  with  a  few  words  in  Dutch;  the 
inscriptions  in  Latin.  This  continent  bears  on  the  Southern 
part  the  word  AMERICA,  and  on  the  Northern,  which  is  only 
a  very  elongated  prolongation,  Baccalearum. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Direct  references  :  (  Catal.  Biblioth.  Bunav.,  Tom.  n,  page  34. 
J.  TROMEL,  No.  13. 
(  GRAESSE,  Trescr,  Vol.  i,  page  159. 


263.     KING  4LPHONSUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

+>   DIVI    ALPHONSI  ||  ROMANORVM    ET 

HISPANIARVM  REGIS,  ||  aftronomicae  tabulae  in 
propriam  integritatem  reftitutae,  ad  calcem|| 
adiedis  tabulis  quae  in  poftrema  editione 
deerant,  cum  plurimoru  ||  locoru  correc- 
tione,  et  acceffione  variarii  tabellaru  ex  di- 
verfis  au- 1|  toribus  huic  operi  infertaru,  cum 
in  vfus  ubertate,  turn  difficultatis||fubfidiu: 
Quorum  nomina  fumma  pagellis  quinta, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  409 

fexta  &  feptima  ||  defcribuntur.     Qua  in  re   1 545« 
Pafchafius  Hamellius  Mathematicus  infi- 1|  = 
gnis  idemq ;    Regius  profeffor,  fedula  ope- 
ram  fuam  praeftitit.  || 

Then  printer's  mark. 

PARISIIS,  Ex  officina  Chrifliani  wecheli  fub 
fcuto    Bajtlienji)    in    vico    lacobceo.      Anno 


*  *  410',  — . 


*      -  . 

(Private  Library,  Paris.) 

We  insert  the  .present  on  the  authority  of  Bishop 
Kennett*.  It  is  evident  that  it  is  not  in  the  Alphonsian 
tables  (which  were  composed  only  in  1252,  although 
printed  for  the  first  time  in  1492,  ten  years  after  the 
death  of  King  Alphonsus)  that  we  must  look  for  some 
passage  relating  to  America,  but  in  the  notes  or  preface 
of  Pascal  Du  Hamel.  M.  D'Avezac,  however,  who  had 
the  kindness  to  examine  the  work,  states  that  it  does 
not  contain  anything  germane  to  the  subject  before  usj. 


264..     OVIEDO—  COHORT—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

L'hiftoire  de  la  II  TERRE  NEVVE 

DV  ||  Peru  en  1'Inde  Occidentale,  qui  ||  eft 
la  principale  mine  d'or  du  ||  monde,  na- 
gueres  defcou-  ||  uerte,  &  conquife,  &  || 

1  GESNER,  Bibliotheca  Univcrsalis,  p.  325  proved  to  be  the  case  with  several  books 

FABRICIUS,  Bibliotheca  Latina  Media  et  in-  mentioned  in  the  Bibliotk.  Am.  Primordia, 

Jim.  tetat.,  Lib.  i,  p.  192.  as  for  instance  PONTANUS'  poem  de  Meteo- 

a  Biblioth.  Amtrlces  Primordia,  p.  12.  rum  liter  (p.    n),  and  THOMAS'    Historic 

3  We  should  state  that  such  has  likewise  of  Italic  (p.  1 3). 


41  o  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1545.  nommee  la  nou-||uelle  Caftille,||Traduitte 
=  d'  Italien  en  Francoys.  || 

derofj,. 


On  les  vend  a  Paris  au  Palais  en  la  Galerie  ||  par  ou  on  va  a 
la  Chancellerie  en  la  ||  boutique  de  Vincent  Sertenas.  ||  1545. 
AVEC  PRIVILEGE.  || 

Last  line  of  leaf  Bij  : 

L'au£teur  eft  Gonzalo  Ferdinadi  del 
Ouiedo  natif  de  Ma  ||  dril  q  a  faid:  1'hif- 
toire  generale,  dot  eft  extraid;  ce  fum- 
maire.  || 

Colophon  : 

Imprime  a  paris  par  Pierre  Gaul-  ||  tier, 
pour  lehan  Barbe  &  Vincent  Sertenas.  || 

1  545-  II 

*„*  Small  elongated   410,  title  one   leaf  +  three  preliminary  un 
numbered  leaves  +  forty-nine  unnumbered  leaves.     The  copy 
in  the  Imperial  Library,  at  Paris,  contains  a  map  which  is 
not  in  the  copies  which  we  have  examined  in  this  country. 
(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Moreri  and  Jocher  ascribe  to  Jacques  Gohory  a  His- 
toire  du  Perou;  Barcia-Pinelo1  and  Brunet  state  that 
this  Gohory  was  the  translator  of  the  present  extract, 
which  the  latter  considers  "la  troisieme  partie  d'un  re- 
cueil  italien  impr.  a  Venise  et  a  Milan  en  1535  \_supra, 
Nos.  200  and  201  ?]." 

The  opinion  that  Jacques  Gohory  is  the  translator  is 
borrowed  (if  our  memory  serves  us  right,  as  we  have 
not  the  book  before  us  and  cannot  procure  it  at  present) 

1  Epitome,  Vol.  n,  col.  645,  with  the  date  of"  1553." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  411 

from  the  Bibliotheque  frant^oise  of  La  Croix  du  Maine, 
The  title  shows  that  it  was  a  translation  from  the  Ital- 
ian  ;  and  the  note  in  signature  Bij  states  that  the  au 
thor  of  the  original  work  was  Oviedo.  Now,  the  f c  re- 
cueil  it  alien  impr.  a  Venise  et  a  Milan  en  1535"  is  only 
the  translation  of  Xeres'  Conquista,  by  Gaztelu.  The 
only  work  of  Oviedo  in  Italian  which  corresponds  to 
the  present,  is  the  Libro  Jecondo  delle  Indie  occidental^  or 
second  part  of  the  collection  printed  at  Venice  in  1534 
(supra,  page  314).  We  regret  that  we  are  not  in  a 
position  to  compare  again  these  two  works. 

As  to  Gohory,  Gohorri  or  Jean  de  Gorris,  he  was  a 
French  astrologist,  poet,  historian  and  prolific  writer 
on  almost  every  subject,  well  known  for  his  eccentrici 
ties,  and  who,  "disgusted  with  the  world  and  all  within," 
ended  his  days  in  1576,  poor  and  almost  forsaken.  We 
notice  that  a  number  of  his  works  were  published  by 
Sertenas. 

Direct  references  :  C  TERNAUX,  page  II,  No.  52. 
<  BRUNET,  Vol.  HI,  col.  188. 
(  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  23,  No.  77. 


26C.     RESENDE  (GARCIA  DE) — Surmounted  by  two  woodcuts, 
one  representing  a  sphere,  the  other,  the  arms  of  Portugal : 

Hguro  trag  atras  tie  Garcia  tre  Kefetre  que  trata 
tra  bttra  e  gratiifttmas  birtufoes :  e  toirafces :  tnag= 
nanhno  estopo :  excellentes  otftumes  e  manijas  e 
mug  crams  feitos  to  djrtftianiffimo  :  muito  alto  e 
tnuito  potietofo  prtncipe  tl  Heg  t»6  ^oao  o  feguntro 
trefte  notne :  e  tio^  iRess  tre  Portugal  o  tteieno  tre 
gloriofa  memoria:  come^atrc  tro  feu  nafeimentn  e 
totra  fua  bitia  ate  a  fjora  tie  fua  motte :  eo  nutras 
que  atiiante  fe  feguem.  (Eom  prtuilegto 


412  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1545          In  fine: 

a  lowiflt  ire  ireas  e  ira  gloriofa  birgem  noffa 
fenijora  fe  acatcn  o  iiuro  ira  biira  e  fegtos  irelreg 
irom  Joan  n  fegunira  tie  Portugal  ____  fog  tm= 
pretto  em  cafa  Ire  Etigg  roirrigues  Itbmrc  irel  teg 
notto  fenfjor  aosi  sit  irias  iw  mes  ire  Junijo  ire  mil 
e  quinftentosi  e  patenta  eineo  annas. 


*#*  Folio,  "  au  titre  succede  PAlvara  accordant  le  privilege.  Le 
feuillet  suivant  donne  un  prologue  de  1'auteur,  puis  viennent 
ces  mots  :  Fey  foes  :  virtudes  :  costumes  :  e  manbas  tfel  Rey 
dom  loam  o  Segundo  qui  sancta  baya.  Ceci  conclu,  commence 
la  vie  du  roi  (avec  un  titre  special)  ;  elle  debute  a  la  p.  I  et 
finit  a  la  p.  ccxxiiij.  La  biographic  achevee  commence  :  A 
tresladafao  do  Corfo  do  muy  catolico  e  muy  esfor$ado  Rei  do 
loao  o  Segundo  deste  name,  &c.  Apres  le  feuillet  cxxxvj 
vient  :  Ida  da  Iff  ante  dona  Beatriz  per  a  Sayboya  ;  le  feuillet 
cxliiij  presente  une  grande  estampe  divisee  en  petits  comparti- 
ments  representant  la  vie  du  Christ  :  au  centre  on  remarque 
ce  titre  :  Comessasse  a  paixao  de  nosso  senhor  Jesu  Chris  to  toda 
inteira  :  Segundo  os  quatro  evagelistas  :  tirada  de  todos  elles  em 
linguagem  portugues,  ajuntada  e  concertada  par  Garcia  de  re- 
sende.  Get  opuscule  est  mentionne  comme  inedit  par  Barbosa 
dans  sa  Bibliotheque  Lusitanienne.  Dans  un  ecusson  le  feuil 
let  cliij  continue  ce  titre  :  come$asse  o  sermao  sobre  e  vinda  dos 
sactos  tres  Reys  magos.  Foi  visto  e  examinado  pelos  deputados 
da  sacta  inquisifao.  (Ce  dernier  opuscule  a  ete  entierement  in- 
connu  a  Barbosa).  La  table  vient  en  definitive.  L'ouvrage 
est  imprime  a  deux  colonnes  en  caracteres  gothiques.  On 
n'en  connait  que  trois  exemplaires.  Ces  details  sont  em- 
pruntes  a  la  bibliographic  de  M.  Innocencio  da  Sylva." 

(FERDINAND  DENIS.) 

Garcia  de  Resende,  one  of  the  greatest  poets  and 
chroniclers  of  Portugal,  was  born  at  Evora  about  the 
year  1470,  and  is  supposed  to  have  died  after  1554. 
His  intimacy  with  King  John  II,  and  the  position 
which  he  held  at  the  Court,  must  have  enabled  him  to 
witness  the  scenes  which  he  relates  with  so  much  zest 
and  originality.  It  is  in  the  present,  which  contains  a 
life  of  the  greatest  of  Portuguese  kings,  that  the  reader 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  413 

will  find  a  spirited  and  authentic  account  of  the  inter-    I  545' 

view  between  John  II  and  Columbus  at  the  palace  of  — 

Almeria,  when  the  great  navigator,  after  being  driven  by 

a  furious  storm,  had  been  compelled  to  land  in  the  port 

of  Cascaes,  March  ist,  1492,  thus  imparting  to  almost 

a  personal  enemy  the  first  tidings  of  the  successful  issue 

of  his  voyage.     The  work  has  been  frequently  reprinted. 

Direct  reference  :  Jo.  DA  SYLVA,  Diccionario  bibl.  fortugas,  Vol.  u,  page  20. 

2OO.    MEDINA  (P.)  —  Under  a  large  escutcheon  of  Spain  : 


en  que  fe  contienen  totras  las  i&eglas, 
clones,  j5wi:eto0,  g  Euifris,  q  a  la  fcuenanaue^ 
gacio  fon  neceffarios,  g  it  treue  fa&er,  jecja 
el  maeftro  ^etrro  tre  iiletrina.    Birigitra  al 
niffimo   $  mug  efclareftitro  Mot,  t»on 
ptincipe  tre  IBfpana,  g  trelas  iros  giciltas  .  re  . 

£*  (!ton  preuilesio  imperial  »<? 

Colopbony  within  a  frame  : 

A  GLORIA  DE  II  DIGS   NVESTRO   SENOR, 

proue  II  cfjo  g  bttlitratr  tela  nauegacum,  f  enefee  el  pre^ 
fente  litaHlllamatw  ARTE  DE  NAVIGAR,  ijrrfto 
g  or||t»enatro  pot  el  maeftro  ^etrro  tre  |Bctiina|| 
be{ino  tre  g>*uilla.  jfue  bifto  g  aprouatio,  en  la 
tnft  II  pe  eafa  tre  la  (Kontraetacion  tie  lag  Jnlitas, 
pot  el  ^i-llloto  mapr  g  (Kofmogtapfjot  tre  fu 
Jftageftatr.  II 

P  affi-||tnefmo  fue  mantratro  ber  g  examtnar  pot 
el  eonfejo  real||tre  fu  Wageftatr,  en  la  noble  billa  tre 
TrJallatrolitr,  eftan-  1|  tro  enella  el  ^rineipe  nueftto 


414  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

1 545.  Mot,  2  fu  teal  eotte.  Jm  ||  pttntto  fe  enla  triefja 
billa,  en  cafa  tre  Jftaneifco  fetnan- litre?  tre  OTot= 
troua  imptettot,  junto  a  las  efcuelas  map-  II  teg : 
Ecaio  fe  ptimeto  tria  trel  meg  tre  <©ctui)te.  Eno 
trel  ||  nafcimiento  tre  nueftto  fenot  Jefu  cfjtifto,  tre  g 
ciut-llnientos  g  gtiatenta  g  eineo  anas.  || 

*.,.*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -f-  five  unnumbered  leaves  4-  one  hundred 
numbered  leaves  -\-  one  leaf  for  colophon.  On  the  recto  of 
leaf  xxn,  a  map  exhibiting  the  Isthmus,  Florida  and  Peru. 

(Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.,  Provid.,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Pedro  de  Medina  was  born  at  Seville1  about  the  year 
1493*.  He  seems  to  have  led,  for  a  short  time,  a 
sea-faring  life*.  He  was  examiner  of  the  pilots  for  the 
Indies ;  and  acquired  great  repute  as  a  cosmographer 
and  historian4.  The  present  work  was  translated  into 
French  by  N.  de  Nicolai,  in  1554;  in  Italian  by  V. 
Palentino  de  Corzutu,  in  1555;  in  German  by  Michael 
Coignet,  in  1576;  and  in  English  by  J.  Frampton,  in 
1581.  Navarrete  states2,  in  noticing  these  numerous 
reimpressions  : 

"  Esto  prueba  el  aplauso  universal  con  que  fue  recibido  el  tratado 
de  Medina,  como  elemental  para  dirigir  la  ensenanza  de  la  nautica  en 
las  naciones  extrangeras,  hasta  muy  entrado  el  siglo  xvn.  Fue  su 
autor  examinador  muy  principal  de  los  pilotos  y  maestres  de  la  car- 
rera  de  Indias,  y  viendo  entonces  cuan  pocos  sabian  lo  que  concernia 
a  su  profesion,  quiso  simplificar  y  facilitates  esta  ensenanza  publicando 
un  compendio  de  su  Arte,  que  con  el  titulo  de  Regimiento  de  naviga- 
cion  se  hnprimio  en  Sevilla  en  1552  y  1563.  Con  el  mismo  objeto 
escribio  una  Suma  de  cosmografia  en  1561,  que  sa  ha  conservado  ine- 
dita  y  vimos  original  en  la  libreria  del  conde  del  Aguila  en  Sevilla." 

Direct  references:  f  RICH,  page  6,  No.  15. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  HI,  col.  1572. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  IT,  page  462. 
Bibliothcca  Browniana,  page  22,  No.  75. 


1  ANTONIO,  Bit/.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  u,  8  See  Lib.  iv.,  cap.  n,  of  the  present 

p.  215;  FRANCKENAU,  Bibl.  Hisp.,  p.  344.  work. 

a  NAVARRETE,  Disert.  s.  la  Histor.  de  la  *  Cf.  infra,  under  the  date  of  1548, 

Nautica,  p.  161.  his  Libra  de  grandexas. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

267.     CARTIER  (JACQUES)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

<*£  BRIEF  RECIT,  & 
fuccin£te  narration,  de  la  nauiga- 
tion  fai£te  ef  yfles  de  Canada,  Ho- 
chelage  &  Saguenay  &  autres,  auec 
particulieres  meurs,  langaige,  &  ce- 
rimonies  des  habitans  d'icelles :  fort 
dele&able  a  veoir. 


415 


Avec  priuilege 

On  les  uend  a  Paris  au  Jecond  pillier  en  la  grand 
Jalle  de  Palais  &  en  la  rue  neufue  Nojlredame  a 
I 'enfeigne  de  lejcu  de  frace^  par  Ponce  Roffet  dift 
Faucheur^  &  Anthoine  le  Clerc  freres. 

1545- 


*„.*  8vo,  title  one  leaf  (with  privilege  on  the  verso)  -f-  one  unnum 
bered  leaf  +  leaves  numbered  3,  3,  5,  +  text  beginning  with  one 
unnumbered  leaf,  followed  by  leaves  numbered  7-48  (leaf  8  marked 
7  by  mistake).  The  last  two  and  a  half  leaves  contain  a  vocabulary 
of  the  "lagage  des  pays  &  Royaulmes  de  Hochelaga  &  Canada." 

(British  Museum.) 


4i  6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  545*  ^or  a  l^e  °^  Jacclues  Cartier,  born  at  Saint  Malo, 
.  December  jist,  1494,  and  who  died  after  1552,  we  re 
fer  the  reader  to  the  documents  published  by  Charles 
Cunat1,  M.  Michelant2,  and  the  excellent  introduction 
added  by  M.  D'Avezac  to  the  Tross  reprint3. 

If  we  are  to  believe  Lescarbot,  Cartier  made  four 
voyages  to  New-France ;  but  we  have  authentic  accounts 
of  three  only,  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  Saint  Malo 
navigator  wrote  any  of  them. 

The  French  original  of  the  account  of  the  first  voy 
age  is  lost.  The  earliest  version  is  to  be  found  in  Ra 
musio4,  whence  it  was  translated  into  English5,  and 
afterwards  into  French8.  This  French  version  was 
added  by  Lescarbot  to  his  well-known  Uistoire1^  and  in- 


1  Saint  Malo  illustre  far  set  Marins ; 
(St  Malo,  1864,  8vo?) 

*  Voyage  de  Jaqves  Cartier  a-v  Canada 
en  1534,  nou-vclle  edition,  publiee  d"apres 
[""edition  de  1598  et  d*apres  Ramusio,  far 
M.  H.  Micbelant  a-vec  deux  cartes,  docu 
ments  inedits  sur  Jaques  Cartier  et  le  Cana 
da,  communiques  par  M.  Alfred  Rome  ,• 
Paris,  8vo,  1865. 

3  Bref  recit  et  succinctc   narration  de  la 
navigation  faite    en    MDXXXV   et   MDXXXVI 
par   le  capitaine  Jacques   Cartier  aux   ties 
de   Canada,  Hochelaga,  Saguenay  et  autres. 
Reimpression  figur'ee    de    ["'edition    originale 
rarissime  de  MDXLV  a-vec  les  variantes  des 
manuscrits  de  la  Bibliotheque  Imp'erialc, pre- 
cedec   d"une   breve  et   succinctc   introduction 
historiquc  par  M.   D^A-vczac ;  Paris,  8vo, 
1863. 

4  Vol.  in,  fol.  423-441. 

8  A  short  and  ||  briefe  narration  of  the 
two  ||  Navigations  and  Discoueries  ||  to  the 
Northweast  partes  called  ||  Newe  Fravnce :  || 
First  translated  out  of  French  into  Italian, 
by  that  famous  ||  learned  man  Gio  :  Bapt : 
Ramutius,  and  now  turned  ||  into  English 
by  John  Florio  :  worthy  the  rea-  ||  ding  of 
all  Venturers,  Trauellers,  ||  and  Discouerers. 

Imprinted  at  Lon-  ||  don,  by  H.  Bynne- 
man,  dwelling  ||  in  Thames  Streate,  neere 
vnto  ||  Baynardes  Castell.  ||  Anno  Domini. 
I58o.ll 

*55*  410,  4  11.  +  80  pp. 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.] 


•  DiscovRs||Dv||VOYAGE||FAITPAR 
LE  CAPI-IITAINE IAQVES  CARTIERH 
aux  Terres-neufues  de  Canadas,  No-  ||  rem- 
bergue,  Hochelage,  Labrador,  et  ||  pays  adia- 
cens,  dite  nouuelle  France,  ||  auec  particu- 
lieres  mceurs,  langage,  et  ||  ceremonies  des 
habitans  d'icelle  ||  A  ROVEN,  ||  DE  L'IMPRI- 
MERIE  ||  de  Raphael  du  Petit  Val,  Libraire 
et  Imprimeurlldu  Roy,  a  1'Ange  Raphael.  || 
M.  D.  xcvin.  a-vcc  permission. 

*x*  8vo,  title  i  +  7  11.  +  pp.  17—71. 

Having  been  informed  that  there  was  a 
copy  of  this  extremely  rare  work  in  a  pri 
vate  library  on  Long  Island  N.  Y.,  we  wrote 
to  the  owner  thereof,  but  our  letter  having 
met  the  fate  of  a  number  of  similar  re 
quests,  we  feel  constrained  to  make  our 
collation  from  Tross'  reprint.  When  we 
see  how  little  disposed  certain  collectors 
are  to  promote  the  cause  of  science,  we 
feel  tempted  to  exclaim  with  MOMMSEN 
(apud  his  edit,  of  Pindar)  : 

"  Inclementiores  tenacioresque  eos  tantum 
bibliothecarios  invent,  qui  -vcl  paucos  -vel 
deteriores  tantum  libros  custodiebant,  ut  de- 
negando  aliquid  dignitatis  assumere  -vide- 
rentur" 

7  Lib.  in,  cap.  n-v,  in  Histoire  de  la 
Nouvelle  France,  contenant  les  navigations, 
decou-vertes  et  habitations  faites  par  les  Fran- 
fois  es  Indes  Occidentals  et  Nou-velle  France 
sous  rauthorite  de  nois  Rois  Tres  Chretiens, 
et  les  diverses  fortunes  d"iceux  en  /'execution 
de  ces  c/ioses,  depuis  cent  ans  jusques  a  hui 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  417 

serted  by  Ternaux  in   his  Archives*,  and  by  the  Societe    1 
Litteraire  et  Historique  de  Quebec  in  a  volume  composed 
exclusively  of  such  reprints9. 

The  account  of  the  second  voyage  is  the  present  No. 
267,  of  which  only  one  original  copy  is  known  to  exist. 
This  sold  at  the  Courtanvaux  sale  for  thirty  cents.  The 
British  Museum  possesses  the  copy  from  which  the 
Tross  reprint5  was  made.  Ternaux's  version10  was 
copied  from  two  manuscripts  (Nos.  10025  &  10265  .3  . 
in  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris).  We  think  that  the 
Quebec  reprint  was  borrowed  from  Ternaux's. 

The  French  original  of  the  third  voyage  is  also  lost. 
We  have  only  fragments,  collected  by  Hakluyt11,  whence 
they  were  copied  by  Purchas12. 

Direct  references:  (  Santander  Catalogue,  Vol.  iv,  No.  5799. 
-|  Bibliotheca  Gren-villiana,  page  828. 
(  BRUNET,  Vol.  i,  col.  1605. 

268.     MAR1NEO  (L.)— Recto  of  the  frst  leaf:  j 

g>umarur  tre  ia  clarittima  bitra  g  Jermcos  i)eef)os 
tre  los  teges  turn  ^ernantro  g  trona  Ufatel,  facatro 
tic  la  ote  grantre  tre  las  cofag  memoratte  tr'IBfe 
pana  compuefta  pr  Hucto  Hflartneo  g>iculo.  &$z 
letio  en  cafa  tre  Jua  tre  Egala,  mil  g  qninteto  g 
quareta  g  feges  anos. 

*#*  Sm.  410,  title  one  leaf  -f-  seventy-seven  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  epitome  gives  the  chapter  and  repeats  the  blun 
der  mentioned  supra,  page  360. 

.  .  .  En  quoi  est  comprise  rHistoire  Morale,          B  Archives  ties  Fay  ages.  Vol.  I,  p.  1 1 7. 

Naturelle  et   Geographique  de  la   dite  pro-          9  Voyages  de  Dicouverte  au  Canada,  entre 

•vince  ,•  Paris,  I2mo,  1609,  24  11. +  8 88  pp.,  les  ann'ecs  1534  et  1542,  par  Jacques  Car- 

3  maps ;  id.,  1612;  id.,  1618,  55  11.  +970  tier,  le  Sieur  de  Rober-val,  Jean  Alfhonse 

pp.,  4  maps  (all  three  in  a  private  library,  de  Xanctoignc,  Sec.  ;    Qiiebec,  8vo,   1843, 

New    York).     These    are    the    only    real  pp.  1-23. 

editions.     The   publications  of  1611    and         10  loc.  cit.,  Vol.  n,  pp.  5—66. 

1617  are  merely  new  issues,  differing  from          n  Vol.   i,   pp.  232-240;  contains   also 

the  first  and  second  editions  solely  in  the  pp.  201-232,  the  first  and  second  voyages. 

date  on  the  title-page.  12  Pilgrimes,  Book  vm,  cap.  iv. 

53 


41 8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  54-6.  269.    LERCHER  (L.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 


<»d)ifflent   einen  || 

groffen  ntann  jafcen  ju  toegen  firadjt  i  jeifft 
(£!jrifUatt  groffOttbiainiieer  fidj  toertnaljeftljatintit  eiuer 
sj)itnrt frniucu  Me ||  (^(jviftcnljcit  (vuro^n  genannt i  tuiirbt  fein 
Icib  tnit  f einen  g(i- 1|  dernim  anfang  fdiim^jfflirf)  bc|d)ri- 
(en i  after  jnlctft  (^ fjriftcn- 1|  ltd)  ttnftnelcgt.5(ndj  mte  Me 
gnntffrani  bie  ^riften^eit  II  dnrojw  }m  toerbe  finber 
gebereninnb  in  cincr  ||  furijcnjeit  anff  iuad)f(cu  but)  jm 
jjelf-Hfen  fdegen  toiber  ben  5itrrfen!|mtb  allc  unnleit- 
Bigen.  ||  *  *  *  \\  2)ifeg  gtojfen  mans  tmb  feineg  gema- 
l)c(0  ftebefittnngi||ninrt^riftenUi|  ttnftgelegt:bnrdj  t'aur 
Vcrdjeru  ||  bait  fftieblingen.  II 

In  fine  : 

Wctrnjft  tinb  tjolcniit  anff  bad  tanfent  fnnff  Ijuu- 1| 
bert  bnb  fcdj^  tinb  nier^igft  jar  nuff  ben  ||  anberntag 
be§  3ennerg.  || 

*,,,*  410,  sine  loco,  title  one  leaf  -f-  six  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  regret  that  the  want  of  space  prevents  us  from 
describing  this  curious  parody.  It  strictly  belongs, 
however,  to  a  Bibliotheca  Africana. 


Direct  references :  C  F.  DENIS,  Le  Monde  encAantc,  page  325. 
j  TZRNAUX,  Bibliothcquc  j4fricairte,  — . 
~]  GRAESSE,  Vol.  iv,  page  171. 
v  Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  12, 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  419 

27O.    ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

$n  ecella  bolo  quq[  ber||foa  fenfu  meo  loqui: 
bt  ||  altos  inftruat.  ilaul?  II  pme  co#  siiij.  eapite.  II 


na  :  mm  cierta  g 
b'trairera  pa  gete  fin  erutri||eui  g  letras:  en  q  fe 
cotiene  el  catectfmo  n  in  ||  formacio  pa  intriog  co 
totro  lo  principal  g  ||  neceffario  q  el  xptano  treue 
fater  g  otrar.  || 

€  Swpreffa  en  Jftexico  pot  matratro  trel  Heuere= 
Mttimo  fe-llnor  J3o  frag  $uan  (Eumarraga:  primer 
otifpo  Ire  Wexico.  || 

Colophon  : 

C  E  gloria  tre  $efu  e^rifto  g  tre  fu  tentrillta 
matrre:  aquife  acafca  lo  anetritro  al  eatijeci^mo  por|| 
troetrina  mas  faeil  para  log  infcios  menos  enten  || 
fciiros  g  mas  rutros  i  g  negros,  iSl  pal  fue  II  im= 
preffo  en  la  mug  leal  g  gran  ciutratr  II  tre  ffimw 
por  mantratro  51  reue-  1|  rentJtffimo  fenor  tro  frag 
$uan  II  pumarraga  :  primer  ofctfpo  S  ||  fEexieo.  Bel 
cofejo  5  fu  II  J&ageftafr,  &t.  ^cato  II  fe  5  imprimir 
e  fin  fll  ||  ano  5  mil  r  quinie  ||  tos  g  paren-  II  ta  g 
fegs  II  anos.  II 


*  * 


,,,    410,   signatures  in   eights,  except  K,  which  is  in  four ;  sixty 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 


271.    HONTER  (j.)—"  Rudimenta  cosmographica  .  Ti- 
ij  apud  Froschoverum,    1546,  in-8,  cartes  grav.  sur 

(Walckenaer  Catalogue1.) 

1  Page  176,  No.  2182. 


420  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

54-^  272.     ENCISO  (M.  DE)— Under  a  large  sphere  held  by  a  hand : 

(E  Suma  to  geograpfjia  q  trata  tre  totras  I!  las 
partttras  g  prouincias  trel  mttntro  :  en  II  efpectal  tre 
las  intrias .  g  trata  largamete  II  trel  arte  trel  marear 
jutamente  co  la  ef  llpera  en  romace :  con  el  regimi^ 
ento  II  trel  fol  g  trel  norte :  agora  nueua  ||  mente  en= 
mentratra  tre  algu=  II  nos  trefectos  que  tenia  II  en  la 
imprettton  paffatra.  II M  .  33  .  xlbj. 

In  fine : 

. . .  fue  impreffa  enla  mug  nofcle  r  mug  leal  ciu= 
tratr  tre  S^titlla  en  ||  eafa  tre  Entrreg  tre  turgos  :  en 
el  ano  tre  la  encarnacton  tre  nueftro  feftor  Je^  II  fu 
Otijrifto  tre  mil  r  pimentos  r  quarenta  r  fegs  anos.  || 

*,,,*  Folio;  title  one  leaf+  seventy  numbered  leaves,  the  last  ten 
wrongly  numbered. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Direct  references :  f  RICH,  No.  1 6. 

-I  TERNAUX,  No.  53. 

(^  Bibliotheca  Brotuniana,  page  23,  No.  78. 


273.     FOCARD  (JACQUES)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
PARAPHRASE 

DE    L' ASTRO 
LABE. 

Les  Principes  de  Geometric, 

La  Sphere, 

L'Aftrolabe,    ou,   declaration 


contenant 


des  chofes  celeftes, 
Le   Miroir    du    Monde,   ou, 
expofition  des    parties    de 
la  terre. 


*  The  date  of  1 546  ascribed  by  MZUSEL  DIAZ  DE  LA  CALLE'S  Memorial y  Noticias 
(Vol.  in,  Part  I,  p.  335),  and  by  PINKER-  del  Impcrio  de  las  Indias,  -viz.  :  1546,  is 
TON  (J^oy ages,  Vol.  vn,  p.  206)  to  JOAN  erroneous.  It  should  read  1646. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  421 

Then  vignette,  and  :  I  £4.6, 

A    LYON,    PAR    JEAN    DE    TOVRNES  ||  M.D.XLVI.|| 

*„,*  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred 
and  eighty-seven  pages.     Text  in  talics. 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 

See  the  passage  on  page  155. 

"  Telle  eft  la  defer iption  des  parties  du  mode  felon  le  tres  excellent 
Ptolomee  y  les  autres  ancles  Geograpkes:  depuis  lefquels  ne  f'eft  gueres 
trouve  terre  dicle  continens  tant  dec, a  qu  de  la  fequinotlial  exc'ept'e  tine 
appel'ee  Amerique,  de  la  quelle  ne  fommes  encore  bien  afleures ;  a* IJles 
plufieurs  lefquelles  je  tais  a  caufe  de  briefvet'e.  U Amerique  (Ja  quelle 
eft  appel'ee  F  Am'eque  !  ?)  te  decrirai  fuccinftement,  n' ay  ant  egard  a  tous 
ceulx  qui  ont  navig'e  &  pour  le  jour d' buy  navigent  a  intention  feulement 
de  traffiquer  ou  gaigner,  et  d'icelle  parlent  obfcurement  tellement,  qu'il 
fault  prefque  deviner  ce  que  par  leurs  fonges  veulent  dire,  fffr." 

Direct  reference  :   BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  1314. 


274..     BIONDO  (M.  A.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

DE    7ENTIS   ET   NAVIGA-\\ 
TIONE,  LIBELLVS||AVTTORE  MICHAELE|| 

ANGELO  BLONDOHINQ^VO  N  A  V  I  G  A- 
TIONIS  VTILIS-HSIMA  CONTINETVR  DOC- 

TRINA  CVM  ||  Pixide  nouO)  Sf  diligenti  exam 
ine  ||  uentorum,  et  tempeftatum.  ||  CVM  AC- 
CVRANTISSIMA  DESCRIPTIONE\\ 
diftantiae  locorum  intern!  marls,  &  Oceani, 
a  Gadibus  ad  ||  nouum  orbem,  vtique  valde 
neceflaria,  Nam  ||feruantes  do6trinam  hanc, 
cum  citius  ||  turn  fecurius  vtruncp  mare  || 
transfretabunt.  ||  OPUS  RECENTISSMVM.  || 


422  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

CAO.         Then  a  woodcut  and: 

===      Cum  Priuilegio  Summi  Pontificis  atq:  Illuftriffimi\\Senatus 
Venetiarum  in  Decennium.  \\ 

Colophon  : 

Venetijs  Apud  Cominum  de  ||  I'ridino  Montisferrati  \\ 
M  .  D  .  XLVI.  || 

*„,*  410,  eighteen  numbered  leaves.  Text  in  italics.  On  the 
verso  of  leaf  5,  on  recto  of  leaf  6,  and  on  recto  of  leaf  7, 
wood-cut  diagrams  showing  the  cardinal  points.  On  the 
recto  of  leaf  16  begins  :  De  nauigatione  oceani  ad  nouu 
orbem.  Cap.  xxv. 

(British  Museum.) 

Michael  Angelo  Biondo  or  Blondus  was  born  at 
Venice  in  1497,  and  died  about  the  year  1560.  He 
was  a  great  physician1,  but  as  a  poet  "  poco  stimate  al 
suo  tempo,  e  meno  ancora  nel  nostro2." 


BORDONB  (B.}—  Within  a  border: 
ISOLARIO  ||  DIBENEDETTO  BORDONE  ||  Nel 

qual  fl  ragiona  di  tutte  1'Ifole  del  mondo,  || 
con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  moderni,  hif- 
torie,  ||  fauole,  &  modi  del  loro  viuere,  &  in 
qual  ||  parte  del  mare  ftanno,  &  in  qual 
pa-  1|  rallelo  &  clima  giaciono.  Ri-  1|  coreto, 
&  di  Nuouo  ||  riftampato.  || 

CON  IL  BREVE  DEL  PAPA  ||  Et  gratia  &  pri- 
uilegio  della  Iluftriffi-  1|  ma  Signoria  di  Ve- 
netia  co-  ||  me  in  quelli  appare.  || 

Colophon  : 

In   Vinegia    ad    inftantia,  &   fpefe   del 

1  VANDER  LINDEN,  de   Scriftis  Medich         a  APOSTOLO    ZENO,    afud    FONTANINI, 
(edit.  1651),  8vo,  p.  456.  Vol.  n,  p.  413. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  423 

Nobile  huomo  ||  M  .  Federico  Torefano.     1547- 
M  .  D  .  XLVII . 

*+*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -f-  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  seventy- 
four  numbered  leaves  +  six  leaves  for  three  double  maps,  + 
one  hundred  and  eight  small  maps  in  the  text. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Direct  references:  f  Bibliotheca  Gren-uil/iana,  Part  n,  page  57. 
•I    Bibliotheca  Brotvniana,  page  23,  No.  79. 
j    Ste-vens"  American  Bibliogr.,  page  41. 
Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  2,6. 

276.     ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

<®uicu$  ijac  regula  fecuti  fuerit :  pax  fup  illog  r 
mifericortria  tret .  ^aul?  atr  gal .  bj  eapitu 
djriftiana  treuc :  pa  ottrenar  (a  bitra  g  !po  tiel 
ano  q  fe  qt^e  faiuar  g  tenet  fu  alma  trifpuefta :  pa 
qt  ^efuxpo  more  en  ella  .  Jmpreffa  pot  matiatro  trel 
teuerentriffimo  fenor  t»o  ftag  $ua  pumarraga, 
met  ofcifpo  tre  il^exico  .  Bel  confejo  tre  in 
geftatr  &t. 

Colophon  : 

(L  &  gloria  g  loor  tre  la  Mttima  trinitratr  g  tre  la 
facrattttima  r  tmmaeulata  birge  faneta  Waria  fe= 
neee  g  aeata  efta  troctrina  tre  log  profictetes  i  q[  trata 
^  la  regla  g  bitra  xpiana :  eo  la  forma  tre  la  oracio 
metal :  g  aparejo  ^  tien  morir,  Jfue  impretta  en 
la  grantre  g  mug  leal  eiutratr  tre  iEexico  por  man= 
tratro  ^l  reueretrifftmo  fenor  tro  frag  $ua  pumarraga 
pmer  ofcpo  ^  lEexico.  3iel  eofejo  t)  fu  mageftatr  ^e. 
%L  quie  por  la  eogregaeio  tre  log  Mores  ofcpog  fue 
cometitra  la  eopilaeio  g  e^ame  r  imprettio  Uella. 
Ecatofe  ^  imprimir  e  fin  ^l  meg  tre  enero  Ul  ano 
tre  mill  g  quinietog  g  quarenta  g  fiete  anog. 

*„,*  410,  one  hundred  and  sixteen   unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 


424  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ICJ47.  277«     XERES  (F.  DE)— Within  a  border: 


flmi. 
rclacum 


tre  ia  conquifta  trel  ^eru  r  prouincia  trel  (Eujco  lia|| 
matra  ia  nueua  (tfaftilla.  (Eonquiftatra  pot  Jfran-  1| 
cifeo  piparro  :  capitan  tre  la.  S>.  (E.  (E.  W.  trel 
IBrnpe-  II  ratror  nueftro  fenot.  ISmtiatro  a  fu  ttta= 
gcstatr  pot  II  jptancifco  tre  Xere{  natural  tre  la  mug 
noble  g  leal  II  etutratr  tre  Seuilla  :  fecretarto  trel 
fobre  trteijo  capt-  II  tan  en  totras  las  ptouinctas  r 
conpifta  tre  la  nue-  ua  (Eaftilla  :  g  bno  tre  los  prk 
merog  eonqtniftatro-  II  res  trella.  II 

(E  jTue  btfta  g  examinatra  efta  obra  por  man= 
tratro  litre  Ixris  Mores  Enquifitrores.  II 

Colophon  : 


fe  aeabo  el  prefente  tractatro  llamatro  Ha 
con-  II  quifta  trel  ^eru.  jFue  ^mprefo  en  Sala= 
tnaneallpor  Juan  tre  Junta:  acafoo  fe  a  eineo  trtasll 
tref  mes  tre  Julio  ano  trel  nafetmien-llto  tre  nueftro 
fenor  Jefu  OTljrifto  II  tre  Mil  r  dHuintentos  r 
rentar  fie-  lite  ailos.:.!! 


*„,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-one  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Direct  references:  f  TERNAUX,  page  12,  No.  54. 
-j  BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  299. 
(  Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  23,  No.  81. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  425 

278,    OVIEDO  (G.  DE}—  Within  an  ornamented  border:  I  54-7 

(Corontca  Mn0 

Then  the  double-headed  eagle  escutcheon,  and  : 


Nutrias  agora  nueuamente  im 
ptetta  cottegitra  g  ananiraira. 

I547- 
$  con  la  amqutfta  trel 


*+*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  4-  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hun 
dred  and  ninety-seven  numbered  leaves.  Woodcut  of  a  coat- 
of-arms  of  Columbus  on  fol.  x. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Second  edition  of  our  No.  207,  which  (as  the  title 
indicates)  is  frequently  found  bound  in  one  volume 
with  the  Xeres  of  1547. 

Direct  references:  f  ANTONIO,  Bibliotheca  Hispan.  Nova,  Vol.  I,  page  555. 
MEUSEL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  i,  page  226. 
RICH,  page  6,  No.  17. 
TERNAUX,  page  12,  No.  54. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  23,  No.  80. 


FRISIUS  &  SCHONER—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEMMA  PHRYSIVS  ||  De  Principiis  ||  ASTRONOMIAE 

ET  ||  COSMOGRAPHIAE,  DEQVE  vsv  ||  Globi  Cofmographici  ab 
eodem  editi.  ||  DE  Orbis  diuifione  &  Infulis,  rebufq3  nuper  inuen- 
tis.  ||  EIVSDEM  De  Annuli  Aftronomici  vfu.  ||  IOANNIS  SCHONERI  || 
De  vfv  Globi  Aftriferi  opufculum.  || 

Then  mounted  sphere  within  a  frame,  below  which  : 
ANTVERPI.E:,  ||  In  aedibus   loan.  Steelfii.  Anno  ||  M.D.XLVIII.  || 

Second  title-page,  on  the  recto  of  unnumbered  leaf  73  : 
VSVS  Annuli  Aftro-||  NOMICI  GEMMA  ||  FRISIO  MATHEMAT- 
ico  ||  Authore.  || 

54 


426  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Woodcut,  hand  holding  astronomical  rings,  then: 
ANTVERPIJE,  In  aedibus  loannis  Steelfii.  ||  M.D.XLVIII.  || 

Third  title-page  on  recto  of  unnumbered  leaf  89 : 

IOANNIS  SCHONERI  ||  DE  vsv  GLOBI  ASTRIFERI  ||  Opuf- 
culum.  || 

Woodcut,  mounted  sphere,  below  which  :  M.D.XLVIII  : 

Colophon : 

Typis  loan.  Graphei  Anno  a  Chrifto  hu-  ||  manae  falutis  Au- 
thore  nato,  ||  M.D.XLVIII.  || 

*„.*  Sm.  8vo,  title-page  three  leaves  +  one  hundred  and  sixteen 
numbered  leaves  -{•  one  unnumbered  leaf.  Woodcuts  on 
recto  of  83,  84,  85,  and  verso  of  86. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See,  especially,  on  leaves  69-72,  chapter  xxx,  "De 
America:  America  ab  inuentore  Americo  Vesputio  no- 
men  habet,  alii  Bresiliam  vocat ..."  &c. 

2OO.     ANONYMOUS— Termination  of  the  last  leaf. 

jfue  imptta  e  efta  mug  leal  eiutratr  3 

memo  e  eafa  fl  jua  patios  pot  matratro  fll  reuere^ 
trittimo  Mor  tro  frag  jua  pumaraga  primer  ofcpo 
tre  Mtxito  .  P  porq  enla  cogregacio  q  los  fenores 
otpos  tubiero  it  nrtreno  q  fe  Iji^ieffen  tog  fcoctrinas : 
bna  treue  g  atra  larga :  %  la  treue  eg  la  q[  el  ano 
tre.iil.tr.  xlbj .  fe  imprimio  .  Wantra  fu  Moria 
reueretriffima  q  la  otra  grange  puetre  fer  efta ;  pa 
Maradon  tre  la  Dtra  pequeila .  &cafcofe  tre  tmprimtr 
a  sbij .  trias  trel  mes  tre  enero  .  Mo  5 .  M .  tr .  xlbiij . 
aflos.  (E  g»oli  Heo  fjonor  r  gloria  in  ferula  feru^ 
loru .  Erne . 

*„.*  410,  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  numbered  leaves  in  a  complete 
copy  (the  first  nine  leaves  are  wanting  in  the  present) ;  printed 
in  two  columns. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

First  work  with  the  imprint  of  Juan  Pablos. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  427 

28l.    MEDINA  (P.  DE)—  Recto  of  the  second  leaf:  I 


Libro  de  grandezas  y  cofas  men 

morables  de  Efpana  .  Agora  de  nueuo 
hecho  y  copilado  por  el  ||  Maeftro  Pedro 
de  Medina  vezino  de  Seuilla  .  Dirigi||do 
al  fereniffimo  y  muy  efclarecido  ||  Senor 
don  Philipe  Principe  de  ||  Efpana  &c  .  Nu- 
eftro  ||  Senor.  || 

Then  escutcheon  of  Spain,  and  : 

M  .  D  .  xlviii  . 


V  Folio. 


(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  find  this  title  dated  1548,  in  the  edition  of  the 
same  work  printed  at  Alcala  de  Henares,  by  Pedro  de 
Robles  and  Juan  de  Villanueva,  in  1566'.  The  Biblio 
theca  Grenvilliana1-  contains  an  edition  of  1549,  and, 
leaving  aside  that  of  1543,  mentioned  by  Antonio*, 
which  is  an  impossibility  (see,  supra,  note  on  page  391), 
we  believe  that  the  above  reproduces  the  text  of  the 
title  of  an  edition  which  may  bear  the  date  of  1548  on 
the  title-page,  and  1549  in  the  colophon.  We  must 
say,  however,  that  this  curious  reproduction  belongs  to 
the  edition  of  1566,  as  the  privilege  of  the  latter  date 
is  on  the  verso.  We  also  suppose  that  the  edition  of 
1548  contains  the  interesting  chapter  "  h  .j  .  de  la  villa  y 
puerto  de  palos"  which  relates  the  expedition  of  Colum 
bus,  and  exhibits  a  map  borrowed  from  the  A rte  de  Nav- 
egar  of  the  same  author.  (No.  266.) 

1  Folio,  I  +  I  +  I+7  +  clxxxvii  11.  *  Bibliotheca    Hispana   No-va,    Vol.    n, 

a  Vol.  i,  page  452.  page  215. 


428  Eibliotheca  Americana. 

282.     MENDOZA  (A.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


Then  double-headed  eagle  escutcheon,  and  : 

©rtrenacas  g  eopila  ||  eion  tre  leges :  Jeeftas  por 
el  mug  illuftre  Mor  tron  &nto-||nio  5  metropa 
Sltforeg  g  <§ouernatror  trefia  nueua  IEfpa||na:  g 
^refitrete  trela  &utriecia  i&eal  q  en  ella  refitre:  g 
por  los  ||  Mores  ©gtrores  5  la  tricija  autrieeia :  pa 
la  tuea  gouerna  ||  eio  g  eftilo  5  los  ofteiales  trella. 
&no  5  Jft  .  tr .  xlbiij ,  || 

Colophon  : 

&  gloria  g  jonrra  tre  nue  ||  ftro  Mor  $efu  xpo 
aqui  it  aeatan  las  ©rtrena||eas  ^  eopilacion  tre 
leges  nueuamete  ortrina  ||  tras  g  eopilatras  por  el 
mug  Muftre  Morlltro  Entonio  3  liletropa  Stforeg 
g  (§o  ||  uernatror  trefta  nueua  efpafta :  g  ^refilltrete 
trela  autrieeia  Meal  que  en  ella  re  II  fitre :  g  por  los 
Mores  ©gtro||res:  pa  la  tuena  gouernaeio  g|| 
eftilo  tre  los  oficiales  tUla  .  gllfuero  por  fu  matro 
impref  II  fas  e  la  mug  leal  g  gra  eiu  II  tratr  5  ffitxito 
e  eafa  II 5  3M  patios  :  aca  II  taronfe  5  impmir  ||  a 
xx\\ .  trias  51 II  mes  5  mar  II  £0  5  .  Jft.  II  tr .  xlbiij .  || 
aftos ,  II 

*„.*  Folio,  forty-eight  numbered  leaves,  the  forty-sixth  errone 
ously  marked  xlv ;  marginal  references  in  very  small  black 
letter ;  the  coat-of-arms  on  the  title  is  repeated  on  the  recto 
of  the  forty-seventh  leaf. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

Contains  :  Ordenanzas  para  Escribanos,  Relatores,  Ab- 
ogados,  ProcuradoreS)  Receptores,  Porteros  y  Receptores  de 
las  penas,  Alguaziles,  Carceleros,  Interpretes,  and  Orde 
nanzas  de  la  Audiencia  dadas  por  el  Emperador  en  Madril 
(sic)  a  22  de  Abril  de  1528. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  429 

283.     APIANUS  (P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

£*  Libro  dela||COSMOGRAPHIA||De  Pedro 
Apiano,  el  qual  trata  la  defcripcion  del  Mun-  ||  do,  y  fus  partes, 
por  muy  claro  y  Undo  artificio  augmeta-  ||  do  por  el  do£tiffimo 
varon  Gemma  Frifio,  doctor  en  Me  ||  decina,  y  Mathematico 
excellentiffimo  :  con  otros  ||  dos  libros  del  dicho  Gemma,  de  la 
materia  mefma.  ||  Agora  nueuamete  traduzidos  en  Romace  Caf- 
tellano.  || 

Then  Globe,  and  below  : 

M.D.XLVIII.  ||  Vendefe  en  Enveres  en  caia  de  Gregorio  Bontio 
enel  ||  efcudo  de  Bafilea.  Cum  Gratia  &  Priuilegio.  || 

*„.*  Sm.  410,  title  one  leaf  -f-  one  unnumbered  leaf -J-  sixty-eight 
folioed  leaves  -f-  table  in  two  leaves,  on  verso  of  which  is  a 
vignette,  with  the  motto :  S^°  DILIGERE  PA  ||  RENTES,  PRIMA 
NATVR^E  LEX.  VA.  MAX.  LIB.  v.  Signature  K  is  a  folding  wood 
cut  map  ;  five  revolving  diagrams. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  account  of  America  is  on  the  recto  of  fol.  34. 

Direct  references :  (  RICH,  No.  20. 

{  Stevens'  American  Bibliogr.,  page  12. 

204*  "  Augufti  (Hieronymi  Oliverii,  Poetse  Lau- 
reati)  de  Imperio  Romano  Liber,  de  Partitione  Orbis 
Libri  IV  .  et  Epigrammata,  woodcut  portrait  of  Charles 
V  (full-length).  4tQ  .  Aug  .  Vind.  1548. 

"  The  Poem  de  Partitione  Orbis  is  very  interefting  to  the 
American  collector.' 

(Libri  Catalogue1.) 

The  only  notice  we  could  find  of  this  Poet  Laureate 
is  the  following,  which  we  borrow  from  Jocher1,  who 
himself  copied  it  from  Koenig3 : 

"  Gebohren  zu  Bergamo  1509,  und  Starb  1558." 


1  For  1861,  p.  24,  No.  212.  *  Bibliotheca    fetus   et   Nova}  Altdorf, 

*  Allgem.  Gelehrt.  Lex.,  Vol.  I,  col.  646.     fol.,  1678. 


43  o  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C  4. 8  •  28^.    P TOLEMY-MATTIOL 0—  Within  a  border : 

t+  PTOLEMEO  ** 

LA  GEOGRAFIA  ||  DI  CLAVDIO  PTOLEMEO  || 
ALESSANDRINO,  ||  Con  alcuni  comenti  &  aggi- 
unte  fat  ||  teui  da  Sebaftiano  munftero  Ala  || 
)  Con  le  tauole  non  folamente  [|  antiche 
moderne  folite  di  ftapan  ||  y?,  ma  altre 
nuoue  aggiuenteui  di  Me  \\Jer  lacopo  Gaftaldo 
Piamotefi  cofi  ||  mographo^  ridotta  in  uolgare 
Italia  \\no  da  M .  Pietro  Andrea  Mat/  \\  tiolo 
Senefe    medico    ExcelletiJ/imo  \\  CON    L'AGGI- 

VINTA  D'  INFINITI  ||  nomi  modernt,  di  Citta,  Prouincie,  Caf- 
tella,  et  ||  altri  luoghi,  fatta  co  grandiffima  diligenza  ||  da  ejjo  Mefer 
lacopo  Gaftaldo,  il  cbe  in  ||  nijjiin  altro  Ptolemeo  fi  ritroua  .  Opera 
ueramente  non  meno  utile  ||  cbe  nicejfaria  .  ||  In  Venetia,  per  Gioa  . 
Eaptifta  Pedrezano  .  ||  Co' I  priuilegio  dell'  Illitftrifs  ,  Senato  Veneto 
per  Anni  x  \\  M  .  D  .  XLVIII  || 

Colophon  : 

In  Venetia,  ad  Inftancia  di  mefler  Giouabattifta  Pedrezano  || 
libraro  al  fegno  della  Torre  a  pie  del  ponte  di  Rialto .  ||  Stampato 
per  Nicolo  Bafcarini  nel  Anno  del  ||  Signore.  1547,  del  mefe  di 
Ottobre.  || 

*„*  8vo,  title  one  leaf-f-  unnumbered  leaf  with  woodcut  of  an 
astronomer  +  six  unnumbered  leaves  +  leaves  numbered  i- 
214  +  one  leaf  containing  register,  and  colophon  on  the  recto 
+  one  blank  +  sixty  double  leaves,  each  containing  a  map  and 
descriptions  +  sixty-four  unnumbered  leaves  for  table.  At 
fol.  54  begins  the  account,  DELLA  TERRA  NVOVA.  On  the  verso 
a  map  of  S.  America,  CASTILL  DEL  ORO.  Fol.  55,  DELLA  NOVA 
HISPANIA  ;  verso  the  map.  Fol.  56,  DELLA  TERRA  NOVA  del 
Bacalos;  verso  the  map.  Fol.  57,  DELL'  ISOLA  CVBA  nuoua ; 
verso  the  map.  Fol.  58,  DELL'  ISOLA  SPAGNOLA  ;  verso  the 
map.  Fol.  59,  DELL'  VNIVERSALE  nuoua. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Eibliotheca  Americana.  431 

"Mais  a  partir  de  1548  (voyez  la  carte  qu'on  trouve  dans  le  Ptol- 
emee  de  Mattiolo)  toutes  les  cartes  que  j'ai  examinees  representent 
1'Amerique  meridionale  comme  un  continent  ....  Ainsi  done,  ce 
ne  fut  que  quarante-huit  ans  apres  la  decouverte  du  Bresil  que  les 
cosmographes,  abandonnant  la  theorie  systematique  des  anciens,  ont 
en  general  figure  dans  leurs  carte  1'Amerique  meridionale  comme  un 
continent  .  .  .  ." 

(SANTAREM1.) 

Direct  references:  f  FABRICIUS,  Biblioth,  Grace.,  lib.  iv,  page  413. 
-|   RAIDEL,  Comment,  de  Cl.  Ptol.,  page  69. 
I   A.  ZENO,  afud  FONTANINI,  Vol.  n,  page  277. 
Walckenaer  Catalogue,  page  184,  No.  2.259. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  1  8. 

286.     PORTUGUESE  LAWS—  Under  an  e  scute  be  on  of  Portugal  : 

t  mr* 

iia  fafentra  .  M  .  JB  .  3$  .  xlbiij  . 

Colophon  : 

i     acaba  \)o  li 


tra  fa^entra  trel  reg  noffo  fenijot.  dFog  impteffo  || 
pet  autorttratre  r  pteuilegio  tie  fua  Elteja  II  efta  fe= 
gutia  be?:  em  a  citrate  5  Utoboallem  eafatie  (§etmao 
galijartrellaois  .  *xb  .  trias  tro  meg  trelljFeueresto  tre 
mil  rllquinftentos  r||quareta  r  0gto||annos.||  ^  || 


*„.*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves,  -j-  text  from 
i-cxvj  +  unnumbered  leaf  containing  the  above  colophon  -(- 
one  leaf  for  register  -f-  one  blank  +  thirty-five  unnumbered 
leaves,  nearly  all  printed  on  the  recto  only. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  contains  twenty-seven  tracts  or  hand 
bills  relating  to  the  trade  of  Portugal  with  Brazil  and 
the  colonies. 

1  Bulletin  de  la  Societe  de  Geogr.  for  May,  1847. 


432  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  548.  287.    HONTER  (y.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

RVDIMEN-  ||  TORUM  COSMOGRAPHICO-  ||  rum  loan,  Honteri 
Coronenjis  libri  in  cum  ||  tabellis  Geographicis  elegant  iffimis  .  ||  De 
uariarum  rerum  nomenclaturis  per  ||  clafles,  liber  I  .  || 

Then  woodcut,  and  : 

TIGVRI  APVD  FROSCHO-  ||  uerum  .  Anno  M.D.XLVIII. 

Then  after  leaf  3 1  : 

CIRCVLI    SPHAERAE  ||  CVM    V.    ZONIS.  || 

*!|c*  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf -f-  twenty-nine  unnumbered  leaves  -j- 
two  blank  leaves  +  one  leaf  for  a  title  -f-  twenty-five  leaves 
for  thirteen  maps.  The  first  of  these  bears  the  inscription 
VNIVERSALIS  cosMOGRAPHiA,  and  at  the  bottom :  TIGVRI,  a 
monogram  composed  of  the  letters  H.  V,  E.,  and  the  date 
M.D.XL.VI.  In  this  map  there  is,  on  the  west,  a  continent 
named  AMERICA,  and  a  narrow  strip,  separated  from  the  latter, 
with  the  word  Farias. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Humboldt  seems  to  think1  that  the  little  atlas  is  a 
different  work,  sometimes  bound  with  Honter's  Cosmog- 
raphia ;  yet  the  words  "cum  tabellis  Geographicis"  imply 
that  the  maps  are  part  of  the  original  work.  We  have 
before  us  another  edition  (Antwerp,  1552),  which  con 
tains,  also,  but  with  a  new  set  of  signatures,  the  CIRCVLI 
SPHAERAE.  In  this,  the  first  map  lacks  the  date,  mono 
gram  and  place  where  it  was  printed. 

"John  Honter  ein  evangelifcher  Theologus,  von  Cronftadt  aus 
Siebenbiirgen,  ftudirte  zu  Cracau  und  Bafel,  fiihrte  in  feinem  Vater- 
lande  die  Reformation,  und  ftarb  1549." 

(JOCHER3.) 

Direct  references:  f  PINELO-BARCIA,  col.  1319. 


:  f  PINELO-BARCIA,  col.  1319. 

\   MAITTAIRE,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  n,  Part  i,  page  384. 
I    Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  Part  I,  No.  3492.. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  17. 


1  Exatnen  Critique,  Vol  n,  p.  27.  '695,  on   the  authority  of   STARAVOLSKI 

8  Allgem.  Gelehrt.  Lexic.,  Vol.  in,   col.     and  CZWITTINGER. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  433 

288.  "  ORDINATIONES  legumque  collectiones  pro 
conventu  juridico  mexicano.  Mexici^per  Joannem  Paulum 
Brissensem^  1 549,  in  -  fol. 

"  C'est  a  tort  que  ce  livre  rarissime  a  passe  pour  etre 
le  premier  qui  ait  etc  imprime  a  Mexico,"  &c.,  &c. 

(BRUNET*  and  GRAZSSE".) 

The  question  in  regard  to  this  title  is  not  so  much 
whether  it  represents  the  first  book  printed  in  Mexico, 
as  whether  it  ever  was  printed  at  all,  anywhere.  The 
title  as  above  given  would  imply  the  existence  of  such 
a  work  printed  in  Latin^  and  in  the  year  1549.  We  are 
inclined  to  believe  that  such  a  work  has  never  been  seen, 
and  does  not  exist. 

The  first  Latin  title  of  the  above  alleged  ordinances 
is  to  be  found  in  Eguiara3 ;  but  that  prolix  bibliogra 
pher  does  not  state  that  he  ever  saw  the  work ;  he  only 
quotes  it  on  the  authority  of  Pinelo.  As  the  Epitome 
of  Leon  Pinelo  does  not  contain  a  single  line  referring 
to  such  a  collection  of  ordinances,  it  is  in  Barcia's  edi 
tion  that  we  must  search  for  Eguiara's  prototype.  Now, 
in  Pinelo-Barcia4  we  only  find  the  following : 

"Ordenan$as,  Recopilacion  de  Leies,  para  el  Govierno  de  la  Audi- 
encia  de  Mexico,  imp.  Mexico,  1545,  fol." 

Had  not  Eguiara  given  Pinelo  as  his  authority,  we 
might  be  led  to  believe  that  he  had  seen  the  work  ;  but, 
in  view  of  this  assertion,  we  must  infer  that  his  title  is 
only  a  Latin  translation  of  Barcia's,  with  additions  of 
his  own,  and  a  mistake  of  the  printer  or  copyist. 

Beristain  de  Souza  says5,  in  speaking  of  Mendoza : 
"  Deben  atribuirsele  tambien  :  Ordenanzas  y  Coleccion 
de  leyes  para  el  govierno  de  la  Audiencia  de  Mexico. 

1  Manuel,  Vol.  iv,  col.  208.  *  Epitome,  1738,  Vol.  n,  col.  287. 

2  Tresor,  Vol.  v,  p.  37.  '  Biblioteca  Hi 'spano- Americana  Septen- 
8  Bibliotheca  Mcxicana,  p.  221.                    trional,  Vol.  n,  p.  292. 

55 


434  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ImP-  J549>  f°l-"     But  here  again  we  have  a  title  evi- 
dently  made  out  of  Barcia's  and  Eguiara's. 

The  N.  T.  Historical  Magazine*,  in  an  article  on  the 
First  Book  printed  in  Mexico,  quotes  the  same  Latin 
title,  but  on  the  authority  of  Falkenstein's  Geschichte  der 
Buchdruckerkunst1 ',  a  compilation  sumptuously  illustra 
ted,  but  inaccurate8. 

As  to  those  apocryphal  Ordinationes,  even  if  the  ear 
liest  of  the  two  dates  (1545,  apud  Barcia)  were  the  cor 
rect  one,  it  could  not  well  be  called  the  first  book 
printed  in  Mexico,  since  we  present  our  readers  with 
the  titles  of  not  less  than  seven  tangible  works  printed 
in  the  "city  of  the  Montezumas,"  before  1545.  Nor 
can  it  be  asserted  that  Juan  Pablos  was  imported 
by  the  Vice-Roy  for  the  purpose  of  printing  that  first 
book,  since  we  show  that  there  certainly  was  a  print 
ing  press  in  operation  in  Mexico,  at  least  as  early  as 
1540,  while  the  first  book,  as  yet  found,  which  bears  the 
imprint  of  Pablos,  is  dated  1548  (see  our  No.  280). 

A  more  plausible  theory  is  that  the  Ordinationes  of 
Barcia,  Eguiara,  Brunet,  Falkenstein  and  Graesse  is 
only  the  above  No.  287.  We  can  find  no  traces  of  any 
digest  or  collection  of  laws,  intended  for  Mexico,  writ 
ten  in  any  other  language  than  the  Spanish.  Why 
should  there  have  been  an  exception  in  this  instance  ? 
If  so,  we  must  leave  aside  Eguiara's  title,  and  con 
sider  Barcia's  a  mere  abridgment  of  that  of  the  Orde- 
nanzas  of  1548.  M.  Icazbalceta  is  of  opinion  that  such 
is  actually  the  case — a  conclusion  which  we  were  not 
long  in  forming  the  moment  we  were  placed  in  pos 
session  of  the  latter  title. 


*  Vol.  ix,  page  44.  and  no  authority  is  quoted  for  it.    "Lom- 

7  Leipzig,  410,  1840,  p.  329.  bardo"  and  "of  Brescia"  are  synonymous. 

8  For   instance,  FALKENSTEIN  calls  the  Paoli  or  Pablos  sometimes  called  himself 
Jirst   Mexican    printer    "  Girolamo    Paolo  "  Lombardo,"  because  he  was  a  native  of 

Lombardo,   of    Brescia."     The    name    of  Brescia,  a  city  of  Lombardy,  just  as  he  fre- 

Girolamo  is  to  be  found  only  in  his  work,  quently  signs  "  Bressano"  or  "  Brissensis." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  435 

28o.     BRAVO  (F.}— Within  a  woodcut  of  a  portico:  I  549' 

Qui  non  intrat  per  oftium  fed  ad  ||  cen-  ~ 
dit  aliunde  ille  fur  eft.  || 

Within  a  scroll : 

Veritas  et  vita  ego  fum  via  .  IOAN  .  x  . 

Then: 

(E  OPERA  ME  ||  dicinalia,  in  qbus  ||  eg  plu- 
rima  extant  ||  fcitu  medico  ne  .  ||  ceffaria 
in  .  4  .  ii .  [sic]  di  ||  gefta,  que^  pagina  ||  verfa 
cotinentur,  ||  Authore  Francis  ||  co  Brauo 
Orfurne  ||  fi  doclore,  ac  Me  ||  xicano  med 
ico.  ||  1 549.  || 

(T  Mexici,  apud  Petrum  Ocharte.  ||  Cum 
priuilegio.  ||* 

***  Very  small  410,  title  one  leaf-}-  three  unnumbered  prelimi 
nary  leaves  +  three  hundred  and  three  numbered  leaves ;  text 
in  black  letter,  many  woodcuts  of  plants,  &c. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  notice  a  dedication  to  the  Vice-Roy  "  Martino 
Zrriquio  None  hispani<£  dignissimo  Proregi ;"  a  letter  to  the 
same  vice-roy  from  ilFrandscus  Ceruantes  Salazarus  (sacr<e 
theologize  doctor}"  and  a  distich  from  one  Melchior  Tel- 
lez  (?)  These  names  indicate  that  the  date  of  1549  on 
the  title-page  is  a  mistake  of  the  printer.  Martin  En- 
riquez  was  Vice-Roy  of  New  Spain  from  November  5th, 
1568,  to  December  4th,  1580'.  Francisco  Cervantes 
Salazar  came  to  Mexico  only  in  1550,  where  shortly 
afterwards  he  was  made  Rector  of  the  University1.  As 

*  Anglic e :    Medicinal    works    contain-  can  Physician.     1549.    Mexico,  at  Peter 

ing  very  many  things  which  a  physician  Ocharte's.     With  privilege, 
should  know.    Distributed  into  four  books,          *  ALAMAN,  Discrtacioncs  sobre  la  hhtor. 

contained  in  the  following  pages.    By  Fran-  de  la  Republ.  Mejic.,  Vol.  n,  appendix, 
cis  Bravo,  of  Ossufia,  Doctor  and  Mexi-         *  Diccionario  univers.  de  Hhtor.  y  Geogr. 


436  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  549*  to  Pedro  Ocharte  he  is  believed  to  have  exercised  his 
'  arf  in  Mexico  only  between  the  years  1563  and  1592. 
To  admit  a  transposition  of  figures  would  give  us  a 
date  fourteen  years  later  than  the  administration  of 
Enriquez,  who  is  addressed  in  the  dedication  as  still 
filling  the  position  of  vice-roy.  To  complete  the  last 
signature  there  should  be  a  leaf,  which  is  wanting  in  the 
present  copy.  It  may  be  that  this  contained  a  colophon 
with  the  correct  date.  But  as  the  date  on  the  title-page 
is  not  a  forgery,  we  insert  the  present  work  under  the 
year  1549. 

290.  ALBERINO  (N.DE)—"  Verdadera  y  copiofa  rela- 
cion  de  todo  lo  nuevamente  fucedido  en  los  reynos  y 
provincias  del  Peru  dende  la  ida  a  ellos  del  Virrey 
Blafco  Nunez  Vela  hafta  el  defbarato  y  muerte  de  Gon- 
zalo  Pizarro :  fegun  qe  lo  vio  y  efcrivio  Nicolas  de  Al- 
berino,  Florentin  al  beneficiado  Fernan  Suarez  vecino 
de  Sevilla,  &c." 

At  the  end  : 

"  Acabofe  la  prefente  obra  en  la  ciudad  de  Sevilla  a  2 
dias  de  Enero  de  1549.  En  cafa  de  Juan  de  Leon,  &c." 

*„*  Small  8vo,  eighty  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  only  a  manuscript,  the  original  of 
which  is  or  was  preserved  in  the  Imperial  Library  at 
Paris.  The  arrangement  and  colophon  indicate  that 
this  work  was  actually  printed  ;  but  we  know  of  no 
printed  copies.  (See  our  Appendix.) 

Direct  reference  :  f  Catalogue  of  a  Collection  of  MSS.t  principally  in  Spanish,  relating  to 
<  America,  in  the  possession  of  0.  Rich;  London,  n.  d.,  8vo,  p.  25, 
(  No.  95. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

291.  THOMAS  (W.}— Within  a  border: 

c  Ifo  hfetow  0f  I 

V_J 

a  tote  excetrgng  profitable  ||  to  te  retrtre:  ISeeang  it 
in- 1|  treatetf)  of  tf)e  aftate  ||  of  mang  antr  tuners  || 
common  toeales  ||  fjoto  tijei  f)ane||fcen,  &  notollte 
goner- 1|  neir,  ||  $- 1| 

ANNO  DOMI- 1|  NI.  M.  D.  ||  XLIX.  ||  ^-  || 

Colophon : 

IMPRINTED  AT  LONDON  ||  IN  FLETESTRETE  IN||THE  HOVSE 
OF  THO-  ||  mas  Berthelet  .  ||  Cum  priuilegio  ad  imprimen-  ||  dum 

folum  .  ||  ANNO  .  M.D  .  ||  XLIX.  || 

*+*  410,  title  one  leaf -f-  two  hundred  and  sixteen  numbered  leaves. 

(King's  Library,  London.) 

We  insert  this  work  of  an  author  who  was  hanged 
and  quartered  at  Tyburn,  on  the  authority  of  Bishop 
Kennett1,  although  a  friend  reports  that  it  does  not  con 
tain  any  passage  or  passages  relating  to  America. 

292.  GARIMBERTO  (H.)— "Problemi  Naturali  e  Mo- 
rali.     Ven.  1549,  8vo." 

(WATT9.) 

293.  IDEM  OPUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

PROBLEMI  II  NATVRALI,    E    ,550. 

MORALI  ||  DI    HIERONIMO    GARIMBERTO.  ||        = 

Con  gratia,  &  priuilegio  di  Papa\\  Paolo  III.  &  del?  II- 
luftrijjima  \\  Signoria  di  Vinegia  \\per  anni  X  .  \\ 

Then  a  woodcut,  and  : 

IN     VINEGIA  ||  NELLA     BOTTEGA     D'ERASMO  || 
DI    VICENZO    VALGRISI.  ||  M.    D.    L.  || 

1  Biblioth.  Amcr.  Primord.,  p.  1 3.         a  Bibliotheca  Britannica,  Vol.  i,  col.  400. 


438  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Colophon  ; 

IN     VINEGGIA  ||  NELLA      BOTTEGA      D'fiRASMO 
DI  ||  VINCENZO    VALGRISI  .  ||  M  .  D  .  L  . 

*^*  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  two  hundred  and  thirty-nine  pages  + 
seven  leaves,  all  printed  in  Italics. 

(British  Museum.) 

"The  7oth  Problem  (pp.  119-122)  is  most  interesting,  as  it  ex 
plains  the  reason  why,  at  the  discovery  of  America,  many  laws  and 
customs  were  found  similar  to  those  of  the  Old  World." 

(Libri  Catalogue1.) 

All  we  could  learn  concerning  this  Gerolamo  Garim- 
berto  is  that  he  was  a  native  of  Parma,  and  Bishop1  of 
Gallese*.  His  Problems  were  translated  into  French,  by 
Jean  Louveau4. 

Direct  references:  (  FONTANINI,  Biblioteca,  Vol.  n,  page  326. 
(  BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  1486. 


294.  MUNSTER  (5£5.)— "  Cofmographei  oder  Befchrei- 
bung  aller  Lander,  Herrfchaften,  furnemften  Stetten, 
Gefchichten,  Gebrenchen,  Hantierungen,  etc.  Zum 
dritten  mal  trefflich  fere  gemerft  u.  gebeflert.  Baf.  H. 
Petri,  1550,  fol.,  1233  pages,  with  woodcuts. 

"  This  edition  is  the  best  for  the  admirers  of  ancient  good  wood 
cuts,  on  account  of  the  views  of  towns  being  added  to  it  for  the  first 
time.  It  contains  14  leaves  in  maps.  The  ist  edition  of  this  Ger 
man  original  appeared,  Bas.  H.  Petri,  1544,  fol.  [supra}.  That 
of  1541,  mentioned  in  Aretin's  Lift.  Handb.  fur  die  baier.  Gescb.  I. 
142,  is,  perhaps,  only  a  typographical  error,  instead  of  1544,  as  the 
author  says,  in  his  dedication  of  1544,  that  he  had  been  for  two 
years  before  occupied  with  this  work.  The  editions,  Bas.  1569,  '74, 
and  '78,  fol.,  have  26  maps,  but  bad  impressions  of  the  woodcuts. 

1  For  1861,  p.  30,  No.  272.  *  A  city  of  Italy,  near  the  Tiber.      See 

3  APOST.  ZENO,  afud  FONTANINI,  Vol.  the  title  to  his  file,  o-vcrro  Fatti,  mcmora- 

n,    p.    307,    and,    we    believe,    UGHELLI,  bill  di  alcuni  Pafi ;  Venice,  410,  1567. 

Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  x,  col.  109.  *  Lyons,  8vo,  1559. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  439 

The  editions,  Bas.  1592,  '98,  and  1614,  fol.,  contain  26  newly-drawn 
maps  and  several  new  woodcuts.  In  Latin,  by  the  author  himself, 
Bas.  1550,  fol.  [infra]  (which,  in  the  goodness  of  the  woodcuts, 
resembles  the  German  edition  of  this  year).  In  the  edition,  Bas. 
1572,  fol.,  several  passages,  displeasing  to  the  Roman  Catholics,  are 
omitted  (Crenii  Animadvv.  vin,  94,  sq.)  In  French,  by  Fr.  de  Belle- 
forest,  Par.,  Sonnius,  1575,  fol.,  2  parts,  in  3  vols.,  with  fine  (but 
fewer)  woodcuts.  In  Italian,  col.  1575,  fol. 

"  Consult  Hager's  Geogr.  Bucbessaal,  i,  79-140,      Woltersdorf  Re- 
pertor  der  Land-u.     Seekarten  i,  63,  etc." 

(EUERT1.) 


2Q5.    ANONYMOUS—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

C  Ueritag  tromint  manet  in  sternum. 

Then  escutcheon  of  the  order  of  St.  Dominick,  and  : 

d)rifitmut 

en  legua  ISfpanola  g  fftemana  :  ijerija  por||log 
religion  tre  la  ortren  tre  fc!o  33ominp  .  ||  Egora 
nueuamete  corregitra  $  enmetratra  .  Eno  1550  .  || 

Colophon  : 

(tton  preuilegio  Jmperial||([  ^  gloria  g  alatan^a 
tre  mo  retremptor  Jefu  ||  xpo  $  tre  fu  tentrita  matrrei 
aqui  fe  acata  la  treclaracio  trela  tro  ||  ctrina  a:piana 
en  legua  (J^fpanola  g  IBemana:  g  una  coluna 
cor||refpotre  aotra:  fentecia  por  fentecia:  S  gratre 
btilitratr  g  puecijo  ||  pa  la  falutr  U  laf  ata^  :  g  en 
efpecial  pa  log  naturales  ^fta  tierra  ||  pa  q  fea  fun= 
tratro  g  roborattog  enlag  eofas  tre  n?a  fcta  fe  catf)o|| 
lica:  g  anamatros  pa  la  guartra  tre  log  matramietos 
g  pa  ||  p  totros  fepan  log  gr&reg  troneg 


1  Dictionary,  No.  14500. 


44-O  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1550.*  g  rtqtiefas  q  n!o  clementittlmo  ||  retremptor  qutfo 

eomuniear  mediate  fu0  fttos  facrametos  con  el|| 

emctclo  tre  lag  otrag  tre  mta :  attt  corporate  como 
fpuales :  totro  II  lo  ql  fe  cottene  en  los  qrenta  fer^ 
monicos  aq  cotenitrog.  2Ia  faca  II  tra  la  legua  e 
tata  clarttratr  cnmo  a$  parece :  atti  porq  merer  fe 
ire  II  totro  a  entetret  a  eftpg  natutales  i  eorno  table 
porq  tnejcrllec  tome  tre  coro  log  q  lo  qfiere  tomar.H 

Four  lines  before  the  last : 

tre  tmpttmtt  a  II  xi\ .  trlas  trel  mesi  tre 
.  Mo  $  IIJ&  .  ft  .  I .  anog  II  Ha  ql  fja  fitro 
agora  nueuamente  eorregitra  g  emetratra .  II 


410,  title  printed  in  black  and  red,  with  text  beginning  on  the 
verso  one  leaf  -|-  eight  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred  and 
forty-seven  numbered  leaves.  Printed  on  two  columns,  one  in 
Spanish,  the  other  in  the  Mexican  language. 

(Private  Librar.,  Washington  City  and  Mexico.) 


296.  SdBELLicus.—"  Chronica geralde  Sabellico  des  ho 
comeco  do  mundo  atee  nojfo  tempo,  trajladada  do  Latim  em 
Lingoagem  Portuguez  por  Z)[ofia]  Leonor  de  Noronha 
[daughter  of  the  Marques  de  Villareal].  Coimbra,  Ba- 
reira  e  Alvarez.  1550-52.  2  vol.  in-fol." 

(GRAESSE1.) 

*  The  translation  into  French  of  ALES-  (Walckenaer  Catalogue,  p.  176,  No.  2181), 

SANDRO    PICCOLOMINI'S    Delia    Sfera    del  may  contain  some  passages  relating  to  the 

Mondo  ,•    Venice,    4to,    1 540,    viz. :     La  subject  before  us. 

Sphere  du  mondc,  composee  par  Alex.  Pic-          1  Vol.  vi,  p.  202;  and  EBERT,NO.  19676, 

colomini,  traduittc  de  tuscan  enfranfois,par  on   the    authority  of  the    catalogue    pub- 

Jac.  Goufy/,  Paris,  by  Cavellat,  1550,  8vo  lished  by  the  Academy  of  Lisbon. 


im 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  441 

297*     CORTES   (F.}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

FERDINANDI  ||  CORTESI.  || 

fcent  9Jctoett  £ifyatriett,  fo 

9Jlcer  gegem 9tibergang i  $m  gan^  (nftige  dnnb  || 
frnrfjtreidje  giftorienian  ben  groffmadjtigtften 
dnnftertdinbt-IIIidjiften  §erren,  CAROLVM  .  v .  $tomifdjen|| 
$aifcr  &c.  $nnig  in  §ifjwnien  &c.  ||  $ie  erft  im  IB.  33. xx 
jar  jngeftfjrifteniin  toeflidjer  grnnbt-||  lidj  dnb  glanfttoir- 
big  er$elt  tuirbt,  ber  ^ftenbtfanben,  dnnb  ||  fonbcrlirfj  ber 
«§oa^fternmvten  ftatt  ^emif titan  eraBernng.  ||  5)ie  anbere 
im  1524.  jar.  28ie  ^emiytitan,  fo  aftgefatten  i  miber 

finbnng  beg  9Jleerg  SVR  i  80  man  fnr  bag  3«biantfdi 
9Jleer  ttdjtet.||$arji  audj  DonuUen  anbern  Sanbtfa^afften 
3nbiaei8o  erfnnben  dan  bem  1536  .  Mff  ang  bag  42  . 
3nr .  II  SSetttdjer  dilfaltige  frurfjtinu^  dnb  (nft^arlaiti 
in  ainer  Sunn  ||  anff  bag  Inrjteft  i  ainer  tyettoerben  $\\= 
torien  dalgenbeg  ||  Sittd  Oegriffen  dnb  ange^aigt  ntirbt.  || 
^rftHc^  in  §if^janif^er  8^rad3  don  (£ortefio  felftft  Be- 
fdjriOen,  9iad)tna(g  ||  don  Socbr  $eter  Sanurgnan  anff 
griantin  Sateinifd^e  f^rac§  ^rangferierti||(^nt(i^  after 
in  §od^tentfc^e  f^jracji  ....  etc. 

©etrntft  inn  ber  ^aifertid^en  Oteid^g  8tatt  9faggjwrg, 
tinvrf)  ||  ^fjiti^  SBUjart,  3«  ^M  Alirdjgaff en  i  Octj  S.ilUrirfj  II 

Anno  Domini  M  .  D  .  L  .     Cum   gratia  &  Priuilegio 
Ro  :   Regiae  Maieftatis  in  Decennium.  ||  * 

*  Anglic e  :  Hernando  Cortes.  'Concern-  teresting  and  useful  stories.  To  the  most 
ing  New  Spain,  which  is  situated  in  the  powerful  and  invincible  Lord  Charles  V, 
Ocean,  towards  the  West.  Two  very  in-  Emperor  of  the  Romans,  &c.,  and  King 

56 


442  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

***  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  five  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves  + 
text  thirty-nine  numbered  leaves  +  one  blank  +  two  unnum 
bered  leaves  +  sixty  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

German  translation  of  the  Second  and  Third  Rela 
tions  (erroneously  called  the  First  and  Second),  by  Six- 
tus  Birck  or  Betuleius1,  a  noted  Swabian  poet  and 
philologist,  and  Andreas  Diether,  his  colleague  in  the 
Faculty  of  the  Augsburg  Gymnasium.  The  present 
volume  contains,  also,  the  extract  from  Peter  Martyr's 
Fourth  Decade,  another  from  Oviedo,  and  quite  a  num 
ber  of  interesting  documents,  not  found  in  any  of  the 
Spanish  or  Latin  editions,  referring  to  voyages  to  the 
Canary  Islands,  Venezuela,  battles  with  the  Indians  and 
Amazons,  and  the  expedition  of  Gonzales  Pizarro  to 
discover  "  Zinnamon." 

Direct  references:  f  TERNAUX,  page  14,  No.  57,  bis. 
TROMEL,  page  6,  No.  14. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  n,  col.  312. 
Bibliotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  24,  No.  82. 
Bibliotheca  Barlonoiana,  page  13. 
Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  258. 

of  Spain,  &c.,  the  first  of  which  was  writ-  Andreas   Diether,   of  Augsburg,    both    of 

ten  only  in  the  year  1520,  and  wherein  is  them   Latin  teachers  of  the  city, 

mentioned,  in  a  thorough  and  most  relia-  Printed  at  the  Imperial  city  of  Augs- 

ble  manner,  of  the  Western  countries,  and  burg,  by  Philip  Ulhart,  in  Church  Street, 

especially  of   the   most   celebrated  city  of  near  St.  Ulrich,  A.  D.  1550.     With   per- 

Temixtitan;  the  second,  in  1524,  relating  mission  and  privilege  of  His  Imperial  and 

how  Temixtitan,  which  had  revolted,~was  Royal  and  Roman  Majesty,  for  ten  years, 

conquered.     Then  of  several  splendid  vie-  *"  Epistolasecundade  NovaHispania,  Ger- 

tories,  together  with  the  discovery  of  the  manice.  Durch  Doctorem  Petrum  Savorgna- 

Southern  Sea,  which  is  believed  to  be  the  num  ausz  Spanischer  sprach  um  das  Latein 

Indian    Ocean ;    besides,    of   many    other  gebracht,  und    netzt   inns   Teutsch    durch 

countries  in  the  Indies  which  have  been  Andream  Diether  Lateinischen  Schulmais- 

discovered  from   1536  to  1542;   contain-  ter  zu  Augspurg.     S.  1 .  et  a  .   Fol .  B.  L. 

ing    many    things  ^useful^  and    interesting,  u  This  is  an  early  German  Translation  from  the 

mentioned  and  indicated  in  a  concise  form,  Latin  of  Savorgnanus,  of  the  Second  Epistle  of 

under  the  title  of  each  history.     First,  writ-  FerJ!»?"d   Cortes  of  1512,  and  is  of  such  rarity 

_        .  ,                       {                '  that  it  is  unknown  to  Meusehus,  Camus,  &c.    The 

ten  in  the  Spanish  language,  by  Cortes  him-  Dedication  of  Savorgnanus  to  Clement  vn.  dated 

self,  and  afterwards  translated  into  Latin  by  'Nurnberg,  den  Ictsten  tag  Martii,  1524.'  " 

Dr.  Peter  Savorgnan,  of  Forli;  lastly,  into  (Biblioth.  Grenvill.,  p.  167;  Li-vres  cu- 

High  German,  in  honor  of  and  in  the  hum-  rieux,  No.  132.) 

blest  obedience  to  the  most  illustrious  and  This   "  unknown "   work  is,  in  reality, 

powerful  Prince  and  Lord,  Ferdinand,  Em-  only  the  last  half  of  the  above  No.  297. 

perorof  the  Romans,  King  of  Hungary  and  *  Born  in  1500,  died  in  1554.     See,  for 

Bohemia,  &c.,  Infant  of  Spain,  Archduke  biographical    and    bibliographical    details, 

of  Austria,  &c.,  by  Sixtus    Betuleius   and  Athena  Raurica,  p.   310. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  443 

298.    APIANUS  (P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  C  COt 

COSMOGRAPHIA 

PETRI  APIANI,  PER  GEMMAM  FRISIFM 

apud  Louanienjis  Medicum  £s?  Mathematicus  infignem^  || 
iam  demum  ab  omnibus  vindicata  mendis,  ac  non-  ||  nullis 
quoque  locis  auffa.  Additis  eiufdem  ar-  \\gumenti  libellis 
ipjius  Gemmo  Fri/ij.  \\ 

Then  a  mounted  globe,  and  : 
Vaeneunt  Antuerpiae  fub  fcuto  Bafilienfi,  Gregorio  Bontio. 

M.  D . L . 

Colophon  : 

*|[  Antuerpiae    excufum    Gregorio    Bontio  ||  typis    Deifthemij, 
anno  a  Chrifto  1550.  || 

*„,*  Sm.  410,  title  one  leaf  4-  one  preliminary  leaf  unnumbered  -f- 
sixty-four  numbered  leaves  -\-  two  unnumbered  ;  map  on 
fol.  31. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  fol.  41,  for  INSULAE  AMERICAE. 

Direct  references:  f  GRAESSZ,  Vol.  i,  page  159. 

-j  Sttvcns's  American  Bibliographer,  page  13. 
(^  Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  1 2. 

299.    IDEM  OPUS—"  Bafil .  1550  .  in-4to." 

(GRAESSE.) 

We  had  a  thorough  search  made  in  the  British  Mu 
seum  and  Imperial  Library  at  Paris  for  this  edition, 
but  it  could  not  be  found.  We  are  inclined  to  think 
that  the  bibliographer  from  whom  we  borrow  this  notice 
mistook  the  meaning  of  the  words  "fub  fcuto  Bafilienfi'' 

O  *r  %/  *J  J    j 

in  the  imprint  of  the  above  No.  298. 


444  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CCO.  3OO.     MUNSTER   (SEBAST.}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

COSMO  ||  GRAPHIAE  ||  uniuerfalis  Lib.  vi. 

in  ||  quibus,  iuxta  certioris  fidei  fcriptorum  ||  traditionem  defcri- 
bundur,  ||  Omniu  habitabilis  orbis  partiu  p'priae  q3  dotes.  ||  Regi- 
onum  Topographies  effigiis.  ||  Terrae  ingenia,  quibus  fit  ut  tarn 
differetis  &  uarias  ||  Specie  res,  &  animatas  &  inanimatas,  ferat.  || 
Animalium  peregrinorum  naturae  &  picturae  ||  Nobiliorum  ciuita- 
tum  icones  &  defcriptiones.  ||  Regnorum  initia,  incrementa  & 
tranflationes.  ||  Omnium  genticu  mores,  leges,  religio,  res  geftae, 
mu- 1|  tationes  :  Item  regnum  &  principuum  genealogiae.  || 

Autore  Sebast.  Munstero. 

In  fine : 

BASILEAE    APVD    HENRICHVM    PETRI,  ||  MENSE 
MARTIO    ANNO    SALVTIS  ||  M  .  D  .  L  .  || 

*,,,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  on  reverse  of  which  a  fine  portrait  of 
Munster,  "  anno  aetatis  suae  60  "  +  nine  pages  -f-  one  page  for 
catalogue  of  authors  quoted  -|-  twelve  pages  for  Index  -j-  eleven 
hundred  and  forty  pages  for  text.  According  to  the  Bibho- 
tbeca  Colombian^,  this  edition  should  contain  a  mappemund, 
which  is  only  a  reproduction  of  the  one  inserted  in  the  Ptol 
emy  of  1540. 

(British  Museum.) 

See  Book  v,  pages  1099—1113  :      cc  DE  NOVIS  INSVLIS, 

quo  modo,  quando  &  per  quern  ilia  inuentte  sint" 

Direct  references:  f  FREYTAG,  Analecta,  page  619. 

-j    BANDINI,  fesp.,  cap.  iv,  page  58. 
I   CANOVAI,  Vita,  page  217. 

CANCELLIERI,  Dissertation!,  page  47*. 

BRUNET,  Vol.  in,  col.  1945. 

Catal.  Biblioth.  Buna-v.t  Vol.  n,  page  35. 

1  Page  2,  No.  7.  men  est  sortita  ....  notandum,  ab  aliis 

*  CANCELLIERI    quotes,    in    connection  Americam    vocari    Hispanam,"    "  Erasmi 

with  the  above,  and  the  well-known  pas-  Osiv.   Shreckenfuchsii   Oratio    funebris    de 

sage:  <{  America  ab  Americo  inventore  no-  obitu  Sebast.  Munstcri,  Basil.,  1553,  8." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  445 

.    BENITO  (FERNANDEZ)— "Doctrina.  christiana  en 
lengua  mixteca.     In-4°,  1550." 

(TERNAUX*,  BRUNET*,  GRAESSE'.) 

We  had  prepared  an  elaborate  dissertation  concerning 
this  work,  which  is  not  to  be  found  in  any  public  or  pri 
vate  library,  either  in  America  or  in  Europe;  but,  as  we 
were  going  to  press,  we  received  from  our  esteemed 
friend,  Senor  Icazbalceta,  a  disquisition,  which  we  gladly 
substitute  in  the  place  of  our  own.  It  may  give  to  the 
uninitiated  an  insight  into  the  kind  of  labor  which  every 
conscientious  bibliographer  is  frequently  compelled  to 
undergo,  to  ascertain  a  date  or  correct  an  often-repeated 
error: 

"  La  premiere  mention,  a  ma  connaissance,  de  cet  ouvrage,"  says  the 
learned  Mexican  bibliographer,  "  remonte  a  Davila  Padilla.  II  ra- 
conte  la  vie  de  1'auteur  dans  son  Historia  de  la  fun da  don  y  discurso  de 
la  Provincia  de  Santiago  de  Mexico,  de  la  or  den  de  Predicadores',  et  dit : 

'  Enviaronle  a  la  Misteca,  donde  estudio  con  tanto  aprovechamiento 
de  discipulo,  que  fue  depresto  maestro,  y  compuso  un  tratado  de  doc- 
trina  cristiana  con  la  mayor  propiedad  y  elegancia  de  lenguaje  que 
hasta  agora  se  ha  hecho.  Su  libro  se  imprimio  en  Mexico  el  ano  de 
1550.'  ^ 

Le  meme  passage  se  retrouve  dans  1'edition  de  Brusselas* .  Je  n'ai 
pas  vu  1'edition  de  Valladolid,  1634. 

Un  autre  dominicain,  Fr.  Alonzo  Fernandez,  dans  son  Historia 
ecclesiastica  de  nuestros  tiempos*,  dit : 

'  Uno  delos  que  en  aquellas  naciones  mas  fruto  hizo,  fue  el  siervo 
de  Dios  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez.  Varon  verdaderamente  apostolico  y 
de  excelentes  virtudes.  Estudio  la  lengua  misteca  con  tanto  aprove 
chamiento,  que  compuso  un  tratado  de  doctrina  cristiana  con  la  mayor 
propiedad  y  elegancia  de  lenguaje  que  hasta  ahora  se  convie.  Impri- 
miose  en  Mexico  ano  de  mil  quinientos  y  cincuenta.' 

II  me  semble  evident  que  cet  auteur  (qui  n'a  jamais  etc  en  Aine- 
rique)  n'a  fait  que  copier  Davila  Padilla,  dont  il  compte  1'Histoire 
parmi  les  ouvrages  dont  il  s'est  servi  pour  composer  le  sien. 

Nous  avons  encore  un  autre  dominicain  qui  raconte  en  detail  la 
vie  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez.  Fr.  Francisco  Burgoa7  dit : 

'  Compuso  un  libro  de  la  doctrina  christiana,  de  los  principales 
misterios  de  nuestra  santa  fe,  empezando  desde  la  creacion  del  mundo, 

1  Bibliotheque  Americainc,  p.  12,  No.  56.  '  1625,  fol.,  p.  484. 

a  Manuel,  Vol.  11,  col.  1225.  *  Toledo,  1611,  fol.,  p.  120. 

3  Tresor,  Vol.  I,  p.  569.  7  GeogrAfica  Descrifcion,  &c.,  t.    I,  fol. 

4  Madrid,  1596,  fol.,  p.  600.  156,  col.  3. 


446  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

C  CO.  Encarnacion  del  Divino  Verbo con  tan  levantado  estilo, 

^^_S!=s.  tanta  propiedad  en  los  termino  y  tal  fuerza  en  los  discursos,  que  des- 
pues  de  ciento  y  veinte  anos  que  ha  que  se  imprimio,  no  se  ha  hallado 
palabra  que  enmendar,'  etc. 

Quoique  1'ouvrage  de  Burgoa  ait  ete  imprime  en  1674,  la  preface 
est  datee  du  couvent  de  Oajaca  le  20  Janvier,  1671.  Le  livre  a  done 
ete  ecrit,  au  plus  tard,  en  1670,  ce  qui  fait  tomber  la  date  de  1'edition 
de  la  Doctrina  du  P.  Fernandez,  juste  en  1550.  On  ne  peut  pas  dire 
que  Burgoa  ait  copie  Davila  Padilla.  11  donne  sur  le  P.  Fernandez 
des  details  tres  longs  et  tres  minutieux  qui  ne  se  trouvent  pas  dans  Da 
vila.  II  etait  ne  a  Oaxaca  vers  la  fin  du  i6e  siecle,  et  avait  longtemps 
vecu  parmi  les  indiens  misteques,  dont  il  possedait  parfaitement  la 
langue.  II  doit  avoir  vu  le  livre  du  P.  Fernandez ;  et  par  cela  meme 
qu'il  en  marque  la  date  d'une  maniere  indirecte,  on  doit  croire  qu'il 
n'a  pas  copie  un  auteur  qui  la  fixe  en  chiffres. 

Davila  Padilla,  ne  a  Mexico  en  1562,  mort  en  1604,  appartenait 
au  meme  ordre  religieux,  et  redigea  son  "  Historia"  sur  les  memoires 
d'autres  freres  ses  devanciers,  comme  il  le  dit  dans  sa  Preface.  II 
finit  son  travail  en  1592. 

Le  temoignage  concordant  des  P.  P.  Davila  et  Bugoa  me  semble 
etre  d'un  grand  poids  en  faveur  de  1'existence  de  1'edition.  Voyons 
ce  qu'en  disent  les  bibliographes. 

Antonio  de  Leon8  dit  seulement :  '  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez,  Domin- 
ico  Doctrina,  Epistolas  y  Evangelios  en  Lengua  Misteca :  imp.'  sans 
designer  aucune  date. 

C'est  dans -la  2e  edition  de  F Epitome*  que  Barcia  a  introduit  les 
dates:  'imp.  1550,  4°;  1564,  4°;  1568,  4°';  sans  indication  de 
source,  comme  a  1'ordinaire. 

Nic.  Antonio10  n'indique  que  1'edition  de  1568;  4°. 

Voici  en  entier  1'article  consacre  a  notre  auteur  dans  les  Scriptoris 
Ordinis  Prtedicatorum11 : 

<F.  Benedictus  Fernandez,  Hispanus,  professione  Salmanticensis, 
exactio  ibidem  studiis,  in  novum  orbem  missus,  Indorum  saluti 
curandae  totum  se  dedit  medio  seculo  xvi.  Plura  in  vastis  illis  pro- 
vinciis  gessit  ordinis  munia  in  quibus  ardentissimam  conversionis 
indigenarum  sitim  in  pectore  ferventem  propalavit.  Lingua  Mistecam 
ita  comparaverit  ut  elegantissime  loqueretur  &  ut  missionariis  viam  in 
Evangelii  praedicatione  faceret  planiorem,  scripsit  ac  edidit  '  Catechis- 
mum  seu  de  Doctrina  Christiana  opus  absolutissimum  lingua  Misteca, 
Mexico,  1550,  in-4.'  Haec  de  eo  Davila  Padilla,  Hist.  Prov.  Mex., 
lib.  2,  cap.  37.  Antonius  in  Bibl.  Hisp.  referat  alteram  editionem 
anno  1568,  in-4.  '  Epistolarum  &  Evangeliarum  totius  anni  in  eam- 


8  Epitome  de  la  Biblioteca  Oriental  y  Oc-          ™  Bibl.    Hisp.    Nova;    Matriti,    1783, 
ci 'dental ;  Madrid,  1629,  4(0,  p.  108.  fol.,  t.  i,  p.  211. 

9  Madrid,  1737-38,  3  vols.,  fol.  "  Paris,  1719-21,  Vol.  n,  p.  136. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  447 

dem  linguam    mistecam  versio'   ei    tribuitur  ab   Antonio    Leonio  in     1C  CO« 
Bibl.  Ind.  quern  excipiunt  Antonius  citatus  et  Altamura  ad  1558.' 

On  voit  que  les  P.  P.  Quetif  et  Echard  ne  font  que  suivre  Davila 
Padilla ;  il  faut  remarquer  cependant  qu'ils  donnent  le  format,  ce  que 
Davila  Padilla  ne  fait  pas. 

Eguiara12,  apres  avoir  donne  le  titre  (traduit  en  latin)  d'une  edition 
de  1568,  in-4  '  typographia  Petri  de  Ocharte,'  dit  :  '  Alteram  mexi- 
ceam  itidem  editionem  de  1550  in-4  memorant  Scrip.  Ord.  Praed. 
torn.  2,  p.  136,  quam  videre  nobis  non  licuit.' 

D.  Antonio  de  Alcedo13  indique  une  edition  de  1586,  in-4.  -^ 
est  permis  de  croire  qu'il  y  a  ici  une  transposition  de  chiffres  dans  la 
copie  (envoyee  par  M.  Prescott)  que  j'ai  sous  les  yeux,  et  que  cette  edi 
tion  n'est  que  celle  de  1568,  dont  parlent  Pinelo  (ou  plutot  Barcia) 
et  Antonio. 

Beristain14  dit  au  sujet  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez: 

"  Escribio  en  lengua  misteca  :  Doctrina  en  que  se  explican  la  crea- 
cion  del  mundo,  la  Encarnacion  del  Verbo  Divino,  la  vida,  Pasion  y 
Muerte  de  Jesucristo,  con  otros  misterios  y  los  sacramentos  y  ora- 
ciones.  Imp.  en  Mexico,  por  P.  Ocharte,  1568,  y  antes  en  1550  y 
1564,  en  4°.' 

Ce  titre  factice  est  evidemment  forme  d'apres  Burgoa,  et  les  dates 
sont  prises  dans  les  bibliographes.  II  n'y  a  rien  de  visa. 

Ternaux  cite  les  editions  de  1550  et  1568. 

Des  trois  editions  (vraies  on  supposees)  du  livre  (1550,  1564, 
1568)  je  n'ai  vu  que  celle  de  1568,  qui  se  trouve  a  la  Bibliotheque  de 
la  "  Sociedad  de  Geografia  y  Estadistica."  C'est  un  exemplaire  fort 
maltraite,  auquel  il  manque  le  premier  f.  II  commence  par  le  f.  n., 
sign.  aij.  Comme  le  texte  ne  commence  pas  sur  ce  f.,  on  doit  croire 
que  le  commencement  se  trouvait  sur  le  verso  du  titre.  L'exemplaire, 
tel  qu'il  est  aujourd'hui,  se  compose  des  ff.  n  a  cc.  Au  verso  de  ce 
dernier  on  trouve  cette  souscription  : 

(L  &  gloria  g  alabanpa  ire  nueftro  He- 1|  treptor 
#efu  Xpo.  Eqtii  it  acata  la  Boctrta  Xpta  II  na  en 
lengua  fEifteca :  eopuefta  por  el  mug  1&.  II  patrre 
frag  13enito  |^ernaittre{.  jfut  impre  II  fta  en  IHe^ 
tco,  en  cafa  tre  ^etjro  ©-  II  eijarte,  impreffor  tre 
litrosi.  E- 1|  cafoofe,  a  begnte  g  patro  II  trias  ^l  mes 
fl  IBnero3J||  1568.  aftwll 

11  Bill   Mcxicana,  Vol.  l,  p.  414.  I4  Biblioteca  Hispano- Americana  Septen- 

13  Biblioteca  Americana,  MS.  trional,  Vol.  I,  page  497. 


448  Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Vient  ensuite  un  f.  non  numerote  (sign.  1313),  en  langue  mis- 
teque  :  le  reste  manque.  In-4  goth  (excepte  les  chiffres  des  f°  qui 
sont  en  remain)  a  2  col.  (tout  en  misteque)  avec  plusieurs  fig.  sur 
bois,  et  des  notes  de  plain-chant,  rouge  et  noir.  On  peut  remarquer 
que  la  souscription  ne  porte  pas  '  agora  nuevamente  impressa'  ou 
quelque  chose  d'equivalent,  comme  il  etait  alors  d'usage  toutes  les 
fois  qu'il  s'agissait  d'une  nouvelle  edition.  Mais  je  ne  donne  pas 
cette  omission  comme  une  preuve  suffisante  pour  nier  1'existence  des 
editions  de  1550  et  1564  (quoique  cette  derniere  ne  repose  que  sur 
la  foi  de  Barcia). 

Ce  qu'il  y  a  de  plus  remarquable  encore,  c'est  qu'il  existe  une 
edition  de  1567  dont  aucun  des  auteurs  cites  ne  parle.  Le  premier 
qui  1'a  fait  connaitre,  en  la  citant,  a  etc  M.  Pimentel  dans  son  Cuadro 
descriptive  y  comparativo  de  las  lenguas  indigenas  de  Mexico".  Elle 
se  trouve  aussi  dans  la  bibl.  de  la  Soc.  de  Geog.,  y  Est.  ;  mais  Pex- 
emplaire  en  est  malheureusement  fort  endommage.  En  voici  la  de 
scription  :  Les  5  premier  ff.  manquent  ;  1'exemplaire  a  ff.  VI-CLXXXIX. 
Sur  le  recto  du  189"  se  trouve  la  souscription: 

C  &  gloria  g  ala  ||  tanca  tie  nueftro  Hetiep  ||  tor 
#efu  (Eijrttto,  g  tie  fu  II  tentiita  Watire  ganeta  || 
J&aria,  $  prouecijo  tie-  II  los  proximo^.  &cj  fe  aca  || 
ta  la  Hoetrina  en  lenpa  II  mifteca  :  eotnptiefta  por 
el  ||  mug  Keuerantio  ^atire  II  frag  ISentto  l^ernan^ 
tie{  II  Wcario  prouineial  tre  la  ||  IHifteea  tie  la  ortien 
tie  II  los  ^retiicatroreis  en  efta  nueua  3Bfpana.  jFue 
im-  II  pretta  en  Mtxiw  en  eafa  II  tie  ^etiro  ©cfjarte  II 
tmprefor  tie  litrog  II  acaijofe  a  22.  tre  II  iBtoutemtre.  || 
tie  1  567.  II  anois.  II  <E  Eaus  Beo  ||  *. 

Les  derniers  ff.  manquent.  In~4  goth  a  2  col.  a  30  lign.  par  p., 
tout  en  misteque,  fig.  sur  bois. 

L'edition  de  1567  ayant  etc  terminee  le  22  novembre,  et  celle  de 
1568  le  24  Janvier,  il  en  resulte  qu'elles  ont  etc  simultanement  sous 
presse,  puisqu'il  est  probable  que  ces  deux  mois  d'intervale  n'etaient 
pas  suffisants,  a  cette  epoque,  pour  1'impression  d'un  in-4  de  plus  de 
400  pp.  en  langue  inconnue  aux  ouvriers.  Mais  cela  s'explique  en 
apprenant  qu'il  ne  s'agit  pas  de  deux  editions  du  meme  ouvrage, 
mais  bien  de  deux  ouvrages  tout-a-fait  divers. 

18  Mexico,  1862,  Vol.  i,  page  40. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  449 

Deja  le  Pere  Jr.  Antonio  de  los  Reyes,  dominicain,  avait  indique19 
que  la  Doctrina  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez  avait  etc  imprimee  en  deux 
dialectes  differents : 

"  Aunque,  dit-il,  despues  de  la  impresion  de  la  doctrina  del  padre 
Fray  Benito  Hernandez,  por  haberse  hecho  en  lengua  de  Flachiaco 
y  Achiutla ;  despues  en  la  que  se  traslado  en  lengua  de  Tepuzculula 
se  ponen  algunos  vocablos  que  no  tenian  antiguamente,"  etc. 

Mais  il  ne  donne  aucune  date,  et  1'indication  est  trop  vague  et  le 
livre  du  P.  Reyes  trop  rare,  pour  que  les  bibliographes  y  eussent  fait 
attention.  M.  Pimentel  lui-meme  ne  cite  que  1'edition  de  1567; 
aujourd'hui  qu'il  a  pu  voir  toutes  les  deux,  il  a  trouve  que  celle  de 
1567  se  rapporte  au  dialecte  de  Flachiaco  et  Achiutla,  tandis  que  celle 
de  1568  appartient  au  principal  dialecte,  celui  de  Tepuzculula,  le  tout 
conformement  a  1'indication  du  P.  Reyes.  II  est  facile  d'ailleurs  de 
voir  que  les  textes  sont  differents.  Le  P.  Fernandez,  connaissant  a 
fond  la  langue  de  cette  contree,  aura  voulu  etre  plus  utile  encore  a 
ses  confreres  en  leur  donnant  la  doctrine  dans  deux  des  principaux 
dialectes.  Cette  particularite  est  restee  inconnue  aux  bibliographes, 
et  meme  le  P.  Burguoa,  qui  nous  a  transmis  la  biographic  du  P.  Fer 
nandez  avec  un  telle  surabondance  de  details,  n'en  dit  rien. 

A  la  meme  bibl.  de  la  Soc.  de  Geogr.  y  Est.  se  trouve  un  vol. 
MS.  in-4  de  220  ff.,  qui  commence  ainsi  :  '  Aqui  comienzan  algunos 
modos  de  bien  hablar  en  lengua  Chuchona  de  Cuextlahuaca'  (un  autre 
dialect  du  misteque).  II  y  a  en  tete  de  la  table  trois  lignes  en  latin 
ainsi  concues :  '  Index  seu  tabula  oim  contentorx  in  hac  salubri  doc 
trina  f.  Benedict!  fernandii  bone  meme  viri  aplici.'  D'apres  cela  le 
pere  Fernandez  serait  aussi  1'auteur  de  ce  vol.,  et  il  aurait  ecrit  la 
Doctrina  en  trois  dialects  du  misteque. 

II  y  a  encore  dans  la  meme  bibl.  un  autre  vol.  MS.  in-4  4ui  con~ 
tient,  selon  M.  Pimentel,  '  Doctrina  y  oraciones  y  moral  cristiana,  en 
lengua  de  Tepuzculula.'  Sur  1'un  des  ff.  j'ai  apercu  une  note  de 
quelques  lignes  en  misteque,  ou  j'ai  pu  seulement  lire  le  nom  de 
'  Fray  Benito'  ce  qui  me  fait  croire  que  ce  livre  est  encore  un  ouvrage 
de  cet  infatigable  missionnaire. 

Malgre  1'abondance  de  details  de  la  biographic  donnee  par  Bur- 
goa,  nous  savons  tres-peu  sur  le  P.  Fernandez.  On  ne  connait  pas  la 
date  de  sa  naissance  ;  on  sait  seulement  qu'il  fit  sa  profession  au 
couvent  de  Salamanca,  en  Espagne,  et  qu'il  vint  a  Mexico  avec  le  P. 
Vincent  de  las  Casas,  parti  d'ici  pour  recruter  des  missionnaires  de 
bonne  volonte  dans  les  couvents  d'Espagne.  Envoye  dans  la  Misteca, 
aussitot  apres  son  arrivee,  il  sut  se  concilier  1'affection  des  indiens,  et  il 
y  passa  presque  toute  sa  vie,  jusqu'a  sa  mort,  dont  j'ignore  la  date.  Je 
n'ai  pu  non  plus  parvenir  a  fixer  la  date  du  voyage  de  Fr.  Vincent  de 
las  Casas,  qui  nous  donnerait  celle  de  1'arrivee  du  P.  Fernandez  dans 


16  Dans  la  Preface  de  son  Artc  en  lengua  Misteca;   Mexico,  1593,  8C 

57 


450  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C  £O.     ce  pays.     Je  trouve  seulement  que  le  P.^Casas  accompagna  le  celebre 
________  P.  Betanzos  dans  le  dernier  voyage  qu'il  fit  en  Espagne,  ou  ils  arri- 

verent  au  mois  de  Juillet  1549".  Si  ce  fut  dans  ce  meme  voyage  que 
le  P.  Casas  lit  son  pieux  recrutement  de  missionnaires,  il  semble 
evident  que  la  Doctrine  du  P.  Fernandez  n'a  pu  etre  imprimee  en 
1550;  mais  je  n'oserais  1'affirmer." 


3O2.     ALBERTI  (L.\-  Recto  of  the  frst  leaf: 

DEscRiTTioNE||DI  TVTTA  ITALIA||di 
I.  Leandro  Albert!  Bolognefe,  Nella  quale 
fi.  contiene  il  Sito||di  effa,  1'Origine,  &  le 
Signorie  delle  Citta,  &  delle  Caftilla,  ||  coi 
Nomi  Antichi  &  Modern!,  i  Coftumi  de 
Popolo,  le  Condicioni  de  Paefi :  ||  ET  PIV-GLI 

HVOMINI    FAMOSI    CHE    I/HANNO  ||  Illuftrata,  1 

Monti,  i  Laghi,  i  Fiumi,  le  Fontane,  ||  i 
Bagni,  le  Minere,  con  tutte  1'opre  marau- 
igliofe  in  lei  ||  dalla  Natura  prodotte.  |  ^  || 
Con  Priuilegio  ||  In  Bologna  per  Anfelmo 
Giaccarelli  ||  M.D.L.  || 

*+*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  -f-  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  four  hun 
dred  and  sixty-nine  leaves  for  text  +  twenty-eight  unnum 
bered  leaves  for  index. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  work  is  quoted  by  the  Nova  Acta  Eruditorum1*, 
in  reference  to  the  alleged  claims  of  Vespuccius  to  the 
discovery  of  the  New  World. 

Direct  references :  (  HAYM,  Bibliotheca  Italiana,  Vol  i,  page  63. 
-I  FONTANINI,  Biblhteca,  Vol.  n,  page  274. 
(^  CLEMENT,  Bibliotheque  Curicuse,  Vol.  i,  page  117. 

1T  DAV.  PADILLA,  lib.  i,  cap.  32.         18  Leipzig,  1749,  p.  483. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  451 

303.    SEPULVEDA  (j.  G.}—"Apologiam  pro  libro  dejuf- 

tis  belli  caufis  contra  Indos  fufcepti.     Romae  1550.  in  8." 

(ANTONIO1.) 

After  Columbus,  Vespuccius  and  the  "  Conquista- 
dores,"  historians  consider  Las  Casas  as  the  most  im 
portant  character  in  the  early  history  of  this  continent, 
while  a  complete  set  of  the  tracts  published  by  the  good 
Bishop  of  Chiapas2  always  occupies  a  choice  place  on 
the  shelves  of  American  libraries.  To  make  the  collec 
tion  still  more  valuable,  the  collector  should  add  the 
works  published  in  reply,  not  to  the  Tratados  (the  ear 
liest  of  which  was  printed  only  in  1552),  but  to  the  ar 
guments  they  contain,  and  which  had  been  set  forth 
several  years  before,  in  two  or  three  public  assemblies. 
The  greatest  of  Las  Casas'  adversaries,  in  fact  the  only 
one  whose  name  is  now  remembered,  was  Juan  Gines  de 
Sepulveda.  This  bold  champion  of  absolutism,  one  of 
the  most  eloquent  and  erudite  writers  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  was  born  near  Cordova,  and  died  in  1572,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-one3. 

The  noted  and  decried  works  of  Sepulveda,  relating 
to  the  right  of  waging  war  against  the  Indians,  with  the 
additional  privilege  of  exterminating  them — a  practice 
then  novel  and  misunderstood,  but  now  accepted,  ad 
mired,  rewarded,  and  a  matter  of  every-day  life  have 
engrossed  our  attention,  without  enabling  us  to  form  a 
decided  opinion  upon  their  existence  as  printed  volumes, 
anywhere  and  at  any  time. 

We  will  state  all  the  facts  which  we  have  gathered, 
leaving  it  to  the  reader  to  draw  his  own  conclusions : 

Sepulveda  first  wrote  a  Dialogue,  known  as  Democra- 
tes,  which  was  actually  printed  in  Latin4  and  in  Spanish5. 

1  Biblioth.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  703.  sum  Roma  apud  Antonium  Bladum.     Anno 

*  Notes  on  Columbus,  pp.  18-24.  Domini,  MDXXXVJ  410.    Reprinted  at  Paris, 

3  NICERON,  Memoires,  Vol.  xxm,  p.  345.  by  Simon    de  Colines,   1541,   8vo,  "cum 

4  lo.  Genesii  SefulveJa  Cordubcnsis,  Ar-  aliis   auctoris   operibus ;"    and   inserted   in 
tium  &  Theologize  Doctoris  de  Con-vcnicntia  Vol.  iv,  pp.  225-328,  of  the  Madrid  reprint 
Militaris  Discipline  cum   Christiana  Reli-  of  Sepulveda's  works. 

gione  qui  inscribitur  DEMOCRATES.    Impres-         *  Dialogo  Ilamado  Democrates  compuesto 


452  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

This  work  does  not  contain  a  single  line  relating  to  the 
.  subject  before  us. 

He  then  wrote  another  Dialogue,  called  Dejustis  belli 
causis  sive  DEMOCRATES  ALTER,  the  object  of  which  was 
to  prove  i°,  that  it  was  right  and  proper  to  wage  war 
against  the  Indians;  2°,  that  the  Emperor  had  the  right 
to  bind  them  over  to  the  conquerors  as  vassals  or  slaves. 

Was  this  work  ever  printed  ? 

In  the  first  place,  we  should  state  that  notwithstand 
ing  the  most  diligent  searches  in  several  of  the  leading 
libraries,  both  public  and  private,  in  Europe  and  Amer 
ica,  and  after  a  careful  perusal  of  a  large  collection 
of  catalogues  of  sales,  from  the  time  of  De  Thou  to 

O 

the  present,  we  have  not  yet  succeeded  in  finding  a 
single  copy  or  mention  of  the  work. 

As  to  second-hand  assertions,  they  are  plentiful 
enough,  but  may  all  be  traced  to  the  following: 

Nic.  Antonio6  states  that  the  Democrates  alter  was 
actually  printed  at  Rome  "  paucis  admodum  exemplari- 
bus,"  and  cites,  as  his  authority,  Sepulveda's  own  epis 
tles,  LXIX,  LXX7. 

When  we  turn  to  these  two  letters,  we  find  that  one 
only  was  written  by  Sepulveda.  This  is  dated  Vallado- 
lid,  August  25,  1549,  and  is  thus  analyzed  by  the  ed 
itors  : 

"  Ant.  Augustino  S.  P.  Auditor!  mittit  libellum  a  se  conscriptum, 
jure  ne  an  injuria  Barbari  in  Christianorum  potestatem  redigantur, 
ejusque  judicium  expetat  nunc  libellus  edendus  sit,  an  secus  ?" 

And  it  must  be  said  that  the  body  of  the  letter  is  not 
more  explicit.  The  other  letter,  dated  April  i,  1550, 

for  el  Doctor  Juan  de  Sepul-veda,  capellan  berger  DIFUNTO  QUE  DIOS  AYA.     Acabose  a 

y  corotiista  de  su  S.  C.  C.  M.  del  Empcrador.  -veynte  y  ocho  dios  del  mes  de  Mayo  de  mil  y 

Agora  nueuamente  imprcsso.     We  beg  leave  quinientosy  quarentay  un  anos.   [i  541],  410. 
to  call  the  attention  of  the  reader  to  the         9  loc.  cit.,  Vol.  i,  p.  703. 
colophon,  which   is    not   without  interest          7  Republished    in  Sepulveda's   collected 

to    ascertain     the     date    of    Cromberger's  works :      Opera  cum  edita,  turn  inedita,  ac- 

death,  viss. :  curantc  regia  historic  Academia ;   Madrid, 

Fue  impresso  en  la  muy  noble  y  muy  leal  4  vols.,  4to,  1780.  Vol.  iv,  pp.  250-251. 
ciudad  de  Sevilla :  en  casa  de  Juan  Crom-  [Harvard  Coll.  Libr.] 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  453 

is  the  reply  from  Antonio  Augustine.     This  only  con- 
tains  the  following  lines  : 

"Cum  optimo  antistite  .  .  .  atque  .  .  .  aliis  .  .  .  communicavi  .  .  .  Ita- 
que  libellum  ipsum  pluribus  exemplis  describi  edique  permisimus." 

Thus  far  we  see  nothing  positive,  and  the  only  pas 
sage  which  can  be  interpreted  in  the  light  of  an  asser 
tion,  is  an  extract  from  another  letter,  dated  October 
ist,  1551,  which  is  as  follows: 

"  Martino  Olivarro  J.  U.  D.,  Inquis.  Apost :  .  .  .  Causam  de  bello 
barbarico  .  . .  quam  ego  causam  LIBELLO  persecutus  eram  cui  titulus 
est  Democrates  secundus  sive  de  justis  belli  causis :  longum  esset  praesti- 
gios,  arte  et  machinamenta  commemorare  quibus  me  deprimere  .  .  . 
conatus  est  artifex  ille  versutissimus  ....  cui  prsejudicio  nos  doctorum 
romanorum  consensum  ....  qui  tres  in  EXCUSO  LIBELLO  memorantur, 
ipsius  que  urbis  Romae  ubi  meus  LIBELLUS  ab  his  comprobatur  et  im- 
pressione  vulgatus  erat,  multo  et  graviorem  et  augustiorem  auctoritatem 

et  majestatem   opponebamus Gravissime  tamen  et  efficacissime 

rationes  ...  in  meo  libro  de  justis  belli  causis  jam  pridem  multis  ex 
emplis  vulgato  ....  continentur." 

This  passage  tallies  with  the  assertion  of  Andrew 
Schott,  in  his  edition  of  Sepulveda8,  that  the  Democra 
tes  alter  was  actually  printed.  But  how  can  we  explain 
the  words  of  Sepulveda  himself,  when  speaking  of  the 
same  work:  "a  me  nondum  impressione  edito"9?  And 
in  the  monitum  added  by  the  Madrid  editors  of  the  col 
lected  works,  which  contain  annotations  by  one  Fernan 
dez  Franco,  who  was  a  contemporary  of  Sepulveda,  we 
read10,  concerning  the  Democrates  alter :  "  Este  libro  se 
mando  que  no  se  imprimiese,  y  se  quitaron  los  impresos 
por  mandado  del  rey,  de  que  recibio  gran  ofensa  este 
autor." 

Withal  we  find  a  full  title  in  Freytag",  with  these 
significant  words:  "cura  Antonii  Augustini  impressus, 
Romae,  4to,"  and  in  Bartolozzi12  another  title,  enriched 

8  Cologne,  1602,  410,  p.  42.2.    This  edi-  causis  :  An  liceat  hello  Indos  prosequi  aufe- 
tion  contains  an  interesting  life  of  Sepul-  rendo  ab  Us  dominia  fosscssioncsyuc,  &  '  bona 
veda,  by  Schott.  temfora/ia,  &  occidendo  eos,  si  resistentiam 

9  Letter,  dated  1554,  in  collect,  works,  appotutrint,  -vt  sic  sfoliati  &  subiccti,faci- 
Vol.  iv,  p.  314.  Hus  per  Praedicatores  suadcatur  eh  Jidet ; 

10  Vol.  IT,  p.  390.  Romae ,  in  4." — Analccta,  p.  851. 

11  "Democrates  secundus,  seu  de  iustis  belli          ia  "  De  Justis  Belli  causis  contra  Indos 


454  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1550.    with  a  curious  note.     Nay,  if  our  memory  serves  us 
.  right13  nearly  all  the  translations  of  the  Disputa  entre  B. 
de  las  Casas  y  Gines  de  Sepulveda^  assert  that  the  Demo- 
crates  alter  was  published  at  Rome  against  the  explicit 
orders  of  Charles  V.     Llorente  only  says  that14 : 

"  Sepulveda  demanda  au  supreme  conseil  des  Indes  la  permission  de 
faire  imprimer  son  travail  et  ne  put  1'obtenir.  II  supplia  1'empereur 
de  renvoyer  sa  demande  au  conseil  de  Castille,  qui,  apres  1'avoir 
examinee,  proposa  au  monarque  d'approuver  1'impression  ;  elle  fat 
accordee  par  une  cedule  signee  a  Aranda  de  Duero  en  1543.  Ce  fat 
dans  ce  temps-la  que  Barthelemi  de  Las  Casas  arriva  d'Amerique  en 
Espagne.  II  predit  les  funestes  consequences  qu'aurait  1'ouvrage  de 
Sepulveda,  et  il  1'attaqua.  Ses  efforts  engagerent  le  conseil  de  Cas 
tille  a  consulter  les  universites  d'Alcala  et  de  Salamanque.  Elles 
opinerent  1'une  et  1'autre  centre  la  publication  du  livre,  et  le  conseil 
de  Castille  revoqua  la  permission  de  1'imprimer." 

But  if  we  cannot  find  the  Democrates  alter^  it  may  be 
that  the  substance  can  be  found  in  the  Apologia^  which 
was  written  in  defense  of  the  second  Democrates.  Las 
Casas  himself  says  that  they  were  both  one  and  the 
same  work  with  a  new  title.  At  all  events,  Sepulveda 
was  also  refused  permission  to  print  the  Apologia  in 
Spain,  and  was  compelled  to  resort  to  his  friends  at 
Rome : 

"  Itaque  Antonio  Augustino  aliisque  viris  doctissimis  annitentibus 
excusa  est  Apologia  pro  libra  de  justis  belli  causis  ad  amplissimum  et  doc- 
thsimum  D.  Ant.  Ramirum  Episcopum  Segoviensem.  Ad  cujus  calcem 
legitur  in  primaeva  editione.  Hoc  opus  judicio  doctissimorum  et  gravis- 
simorum  dominorum  Philippi  Archinsi,  Sanctissimi  Domini  nostri  Papa; 
Vicarii,  et  vEgidi  Foscararii,  magistri  sacri  Palatii  ac  Antonii  Augus- 
tini  auditoris  Rotae  examinatum  et  approbatum,  et  multorum  aliorum 
eruditissimorum  virorum  consensu  in  Urbe  commendatum  impressum 
fait  Romae  apud  Valerium  Doricum  et  Ludovicum  fratres  Brixienses  . 
Primer  Maji  anno  a  Christo  nato  M  .  D  .  L  .  8°."  16 


tisy  si-ve  Democrates  alter  ....  Romae         ls  We  can  only  refer  at  present  to  the 

...      Le  premure  che  il  pio  Imperatore  Narratio    Region,    indication  ,•    Frankfort, 

Sovrano  delle  Spagne  si  diede  per  soppri-  1598,  p.  136. 

mere   questo    libro   vergognoso,   lo   hanno          1*  (Eu-vres  de  don  B.  de  Las  Casas;  Paris, 

resotalmente  raro,  che  i  Bibliografi  non  co-  8vo,  1822,  Vol.  I,  p.  334. 
noscono,  che    il    solo    esemplare    esistente          16  Opera  omnia,  Vol.  i.  p.  LXXVI  ;   Vol. 

nell'  una  volta  Gesuitico,  Collegio  di  Gra-  iv,  p.  351. 
nata."     (RicAercAe,  p.  32,  note.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  455 

But  here  again  we  failed  to  find  a  printed  copy  of  a    I 
separate  edition  of  the  Apologia.     We  know  the  work  _ 
only  from  the  reprint  in  the  Cologne  and  Madrid  edi 
tions,  and  a  manuscript  copy16. 


RAMUSIO  (J.  B.}—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

PRIMO  VOLVME  ||  DELLE  NAVIGA- 
TIONI  ||  ET  VIAGGI  ||  NEL  QVAL  si  CON- 

TIENE   ||  LA     DESCRITTIONE     DELI/     AFRICA,     Et 

del  paefe  del  Prete  lanni  con  uiaggi, 
dal  mar  Roffo  a  ||  Calicut,  &  infin  all' 
ifole  Molucche,  doue  nafcono  le  Spetierie,|| 
Et  la  Nauigatione  attorno  il  mondo.  ||  LI 

NOMI    DE    GLI    AVTTORI,    ET    LE    NAVIGATIONI, 
ET  ||  I    VIAGGI    PIV    PARTICOLARMENTE  SI    MOS- 
TRANO  NEL  FOGLIO  SEGVENTE.  || 
Then  vignette,  and  : 

Con  priuilegio  del  Sommo  Pontefice,  & 
dello  ||  Illuftrifs.  Senato  Venetiano.  || 

IN   VENETIA    APPRESSO    GLI     HEREDI  ||  DI    LV- 
CANTONIO   GIVNTI  ||  L?ANNO   MDL.  || 
Colophon  : 

In  Venetia  nella  ftamperia  de  gli  heredi 
di  Luc'  Antonio  Giunti,  ||  1'anno  MDL.  nel 
Mefe  di  Maggio  || 

*„,*  Folio,  title   one   leaf  +  three   unnumbered   prelim,   leaves  + 
leaves  numbered  i  to  405,  for  text. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

18  Fifteen  leaves,  preserved  in  a  private  lacioncs,  also  contained  a  MS.  copy  of  the 
library,  Providence.  The  Hanrott  and  Apologia.  See  Bibliotheca  Hebcriana,  Part 
Heber  copies  of  Las  Casas'  Brcvissima  re-  iv,  No.  164. 


456  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  550.        The  chapters  relating  to  America  are: 


Lettere  di  Amerigo  Vespucci  Fiorentino  drizzata  al  Magni- 
fico  Pietro  Soderini  Gonfaloniere  della  eccelsa  republica 
di  Firenze  di  due  sue  nauigationi  .....  138-140 

— Discorso  sopra  la  nauigatione  fatta  dalli  Spagnuoli  attorno 

'1  Mondo  .  .  373-374- 

— Epistola  di  Massimiliano  transiluano  della  detta  nauiga 
tione  ..........  374-380. 

— La  detta  nauigatione  scritta  per  messer  Antonio  Pigafetta 

Vicentino,  il  qual  ni  siritrouo  in  persona         .          .         .  380-398. 

Giambatista  Ramusio,  Rannusio  or  Rhamusio,  was 
born  at  Trevise,  in  1485,  or  1486  (Nicer  on)  ^  and  died 
at  Padoua,  July  loth,  1557'.  He  held  the  office  of 
Secretary  to  the  dreaded  Venetian  council  of  "  The 
Ten."  The  present  is  the  first  edition  of  his  collection 
of  voyages,  which  was  published  anonymously.  Ra- 
musio's  name  appeared  only  in  the  second  edition.  As 
to  the  merit  of  the  Raccolta^  Camus3  says  : 

"  Elle  est  precieuse,  peu  vantee  par  les  libraires,  peu  recherchee  des 
amateurs  de  beaux  livres,  parcequ'elle  n'est  pas  ornee  d'estampes,  mais 
seulement  de  gravures  en  bois  qui  n'ont  rien  d'agreable ;  elle  est  es- 
timee  par  les  savants,  et  regardee  encore  aujourd'hui  par  les  geogra 
phies  comme  un  des  recueils  les  plus  importans.  Ramusio  avait,  soit 
a  raison  de  ses  grandes  connaissances  dans  1'histoire,  la  geographic, 
les  langues,  soit  enfin  a  raison  de  correspondances  multipliers  avec  les 
personnes  qui  pouvaient  etre  de  quelque  utilite  a  son  enterprise2, 
toutes  les  facilites  necessaires  pour  former  une  excellente  collection. 
II  mourut  laissant  les  materiaux  d'un  quatrieme  volume  ;  mais  son 
manuscrit  perit  dans  1'incendie  de  1'imprimerie  des  Juntes,  arrivee  au 
mois  de  novembre  de  la  meme  annee. 

"  Selon  Fontanini  et  selon  la  Bibliot.  italiana  de  Haym,  citee  par 
Crevenna  (catalogue  de  sa  bibl.  1776,  to.  v.  p.  35),  on  doit  choisir  le 
premier  volume,  de  1'edition  de  1588  [the  above  edition  of  1550 
lacks  several  narrations  which  are  to  be  tound  in  all  the  subsequent 
issues];  le  second  de  1'edition  de  1583,  le  troisieme  de  1'edition  de 
1565.  Mais  on  ajoutera  a  ce  troisieme  volume  un  supplement  qu'on 
detachera  de  1'edition  de  1606  [viz,.  :  Viaggio  di  M.  Cesar e  de'  Fred- 
erici  netf  India  orientale\" 


1  APOSTOLO  ZENO  af.  FONTANINI,  Vol.     8vo,  1565,  p.  654  sq.  for  the  correspond- 
n,  p.  275.  ence  quoted  by  CAMUS. 

a  Lettere  di  xin  Huomini iiluttri  j  Venice,         s  Memoire  sur  De  Bry,  p.  8,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  457 

"  Le  premier  volume  a  etc  imprime  pour  la  premiere  fois  en  1550.     I  C  £JO« 
Le  troisieme  le  fut  par  anticipation  en  1553,  et  le  second,  dont  I'im-  ______ 

pression  avait  etc  retardee,  parcequ'il  manquait  a  1'auteur  quelques 
pieces  necessaires,  fut  reculee  encore  davantage  par  sa  mort,  et  ne 
parut  qu'en  1559." 

(NlCERON4.) 

The  publication  of  Ramusio's  Raccolta  may  be  said 
to  open  an  era  in  the  literary  history  of  Voyages  and 
Navigation.  Instead  of  accounts  carelessly  copied  and 
translated  from  previous  collections,  perpetuating  errors 
and  anachronisms,  we  find  in  this  valuable  work  original 
narrations  judiciously  selected5,  carefully  printed,  and 
enriched  with  notices  which  betray  the  hand  of  a  scholar 
of  great  critical  acumen6.  Nor  should  we  forget  that 
we  are  indebted  to  Ramusio  for  the  preservation  of  ac 
counts  of  voyages  of  the  utmost  importance  to  the 
student  of  American  history  ;  and  did  his  work  con 
tain  only  the  Relatione  d'un  gentilhuomo  del  Sig.  Fernando 
Cortese,  and  the  first  voyage  of  Jacques  Cartier  to 
Canada,  these  two  capital  relations  would  entitle  the 
Raccolta  to  a  prominent  place  in  any  American  library. 

Direct  references  :  C  LENGLET  DUFRESNOY,  M'eth.  la  G'eogr.,  Vol.  I,  Pt.  2,  p.  430. 
-"    ZURLA,  di  Marco  Polo,  Vol.  11,  page  no. 

BANDINI,  de  Florent.  junt.  Typogr.  Vol.  I,  page  22. 
TERNAUX,  page  13,  No.  57. 
BRUNET,  Vol.  iv,  col.  uoo. 
GRAESSE,  Vol.  vi,  page  23. 


The  year  1550  is  the  limit  which  we  assigned  to  our 
selves  in  the  outset  of  this  work.  That  limit  has  now 
been  reached,  and  our  task  is  therefore  accomplished  ! 

4  Memoircs,  Vol.  xxxv,  page  98.  *  HUMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv, 

8  FOSCARINI,  d.  Letter,  Vcnex.,  p.  435,  sj.     p.  149. 


458  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

As  we  cast  a  parting  glance  over  the  long  array  of  dis 
sertations,  notes  and  descriptions  which  precede  this 
concluding  page,  and  notice  the  numerous  errors  it  has 
behooved  us  to  correct  in  the  works  of  others,  the  relief 
we  experience  in  the  completion  of  our  undertaking  is 
mingled  with  feelings  of  doubt  and  apprehension.  The 
consciousness,  however,  of  having  performed  the  task 
honestly  is  our  consolation  and  reward.  Let  those 
who  may  feel  disposed  to  follow  in  our  wake  treat  us  as 
we  have  treated  our  predecessors  ;  and  if  they  can  in 
scribe  on  the  title  of  their  work  Montaigne's  epigraph : 
Cecy  est  un  livre  de  bonne  /0jy,  we  will  cheerfully  abide 
by  the  result. 

Withal,  when  we  recollect  the  nature  of  the  ob 
stacles  we  have  been  called  upon  to  overcome,  and  the 
vexations  which  it  has  been  our  misfortune  to  endure, 
we  must  rejoice  that  our  ordeal  is  over ;  and,  like  the 
scribes  of  old  when  they  had  performed  some  arduous 
and  ungrateful  task,  which,  after  years  of  toil  and 
privations,  oftentimes  left  them  blind,  exhausted  and 
famished,  we  repeat  with  a  fervent  heart : 


optima 
infinite! 


ADDITIONS. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


461 


iy  bis.     DATI  (GIULIANO). 

"  Ifole  trovate  novamente  per  El  Re  di  Spagna,  e  fotto  una  Silo- 
grafia  completamente  diverfa  da  quella  che  orna  1'edizione  in  carat- 
tere  romano  26  ottobre  1493.  II  gruppo  d'Indiani  che  fuggono  alia 
macchia  trovafi  a  finiftra  di  chi  legge,  mentre  nell'  altra  e  a  deftra, 
la  caravella  e  una  fola  in  luogo  di  due,  ne  vi  f'rimarea  a  finiftra  la 
figura  coronata  del  Re  Ferdinando. 

"  Comincia  il  tefto  al  recto  del  fol.  i°  ;  e  continua  fino  al  rovefcio 
del  4°  foglietto,  che  e  1'ultimo  fono  in  tutto  ftanze  68,  10  per  pagina 
(a  due  colonne  in  4°)  meno  la  prima,  e  1'ultima  dove  il  tefto  termina 
afi: 

"  cavaliere  mefler  Giovanfilippo  de  lignamine  ||  domeftico  famigliare 
dello  illuftriffimo  ||  re  di  Spagna  Chriftianiffimo  ||  adi  xxvi  doftobre 
1495  |  Florentie.  || 

"Riproduce  quefta  edizione  il  tefto  &z\\a.feconda  in  caratteri  romani 
(26  ottobre  1493),  ma  con  tipi  femi-gotici  .  Meno  al  titolo  ed  aila 
fottafcrizione  no  fi  troverebbe  un  folo  punto  ne  una  fola  virgola  in 
tutto  il  tefto  ;  non  ha  ngiftro  ni  richiami  ne  fegnature  ne  numerazione 
di  pagine.  La  carta  niolto  foftenuta  non  porta  marea  alcuna  nella 
filigrana.  (In  Bibliotheca  Trivulzio.}" 


This  edition  of  the  Dati  poem  had  been  noticed  by 
Cancellieri*- 

17.    The  passage  in    Zachary   Lillo's  work  is  on 
verso  of  leaf  40,  and  as  follows  : 

"  De  navigatione  oceani  maris  .  -  fed  res  poftulare  videtur  ut  quo 
tempore  navigatus  fit  oceanus,  paucis  exponam  :  ne  quifquam  novum 
aut  inufitatum  credat,  quod  Rex  hifpaniae,  ut  ferunt,  in  dies  ad  ex- 
ploranda  nova  littora  naves  mittat.  Nam  temporibus  Trajani,  ut 
Plinius  refert  ..." 

22  bii.     BERGOMAS  (J.  P.)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


omniu  tepercu^to- 
utter  a  IReuetentrUnmo  patre  Ja  II  coto 
i3ergtimefeiortrtm!S|^e||remitarum  etrtte: 


1  Lettera  in  lingua  Spagnuola  dirctta  da  Hot  heca  Ambrosiana  ;  Milan,  410,  xxxu.  pp. 

Cristoforo  Colombo  a  Luis  de  Santangel  (15  +6  11.,  1866. 

Febbrajo  14  marzo  1493)  riprodotta  afac-          (A  very  well  executed  fac-simile  of  the 

simile   ed  illustrata  per  cura  di   Gerolamo  letter  mentioned,  supra,  page  24,  No.  7.) 

d'Adda    dair    unico   esemplare   a  itampata  Introd.,  p.  xx. 
sinora  conosciuto  che  si  conscr-va  nella  Bib-          a  Dissertation!,  page  153. 


462  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 503.  plementum  ||  fupplementi  <£r0nicarti  nuncupantur.  || 
==  Jneipieniro  at  exorlrfo  muntrii  bftp  inll&nnum  talus 
tig  noftre.  fEeecccij.  II 

Then  vignette  representing  the  arms  of  Cardinal  Antonio  Palla- 
vicini,  followed  by : 

Otum  gratia  r  ^riuiiegfo, 

Colophon  : 

C  iExplicit  Stippi^tnentum  <£f)roniearum  Bilk 
genter  3Bt  II  Accurate  Heuifum  &tpe  (Korrectu. 
l^enettis  Jm  II  prettuf  let  aitettinu  Be  Hiffona 
Uemlle  II  fern.  IRegna.  Hennartro  Haretrano 
netiarum  ^tinctpe.  &  jjiatiui- 1|  tate  (K^ifti . 
mcc .  ||  (it .  Hie  .  iiii .  Jftaii ,  ||  <£u?  Gratia  3Bt 
^riuilegin .  1 1 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 


5og        6i.  _Mo^<fiH0lW0    ttWttM 


See  the  passage  on  the  recto  of  ciii  : 

35ft  infuper  iam  teperta  noua  quetram  infula, 
fibe  parta  or-ll^i^  pats,  ft  fcicere  mabig  ,  tnaior 
ipfa  IButopa  multum  .  nan  tamen  excul  ||  ta  propter 
incognttum  eiug  partis  fttum,  qute  iuxta  europam 
atcp  ||  Efricam  atr  iatug  occtoentale  prtitentiitur  per 
eirculas  omnes  pre-  1|  trictos  tranfberfaliter  .  33e 
qua  ft  quitr  iatius  fcire  trefttrerag  ,  fac  ea  lellgas  . 
quce  prtefenti  iitello  fitre  trigno  fcripta  funt  . 
trempta  ijae  parte  no  ||  biter  inuenta  ,  ©mneiei 
binti^  totiujs  terras  funt  imb  .  S^iiw^  ^  atteftante: 


I  CI  I.  67.     MAFFEI  OF  VOLTERRA—  Above  a  large  vignette: 

—  =    aTDmmentariorum  Urbano  ||  turn  ^apftaelis 
latent  ||  ni  :  oetn  r  trigenta  litri  eum  ||  Irupliei 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  463 

tretn  intriee  feeuntrum  ||  ftotnos  eolieeto.  ||  Jtem  lie^   1511 
eonomicus  Xenopptte  II  at  eatrem  latio  tonatus.  ||  = 
l^enuntrantur  ^arrljifite   in  bia  Ja  ||  eotea  at 
Joanne  paruo  r  Joeoiro  II  iSafcio  Efeenfio.  || 

^<?rj0  o/"^  title  : 

<&x  cf)alcograpf)ia  noftra  :  in 
tetia  :  atr  Bus  Eugufti  .  ffi  .  JB  . 


*„,*  Fol.,  title  one  leaf  -f-  seventeen  unnumbered  leaves-)-  eight  un 
numbered  leaves  for  Xenophon's  (Economics  -\-  leaves  num 
bered  I-CCCCXIIII. 

The  chapter  relating  to  America  begins  on  the  verso 
of  leaf  cxxv. 


69.    STOBNICZA—  "  Introductio 


"  Ein   Pohle,   war    Profeflbr   Philofophia   zu    Cracau,    begab    fich  = 
hernach  in  den  Orden  der  Minorum  de  Obfervantia,  fchrieb  quef- 
tiones  in  univerfam   pbilofophiam,  und  edirte  feines  Praceptoris  Mi- 
chaelis  Parifienfis,  Profeflbris  zu  Cracau,  fcotiftiche  Philofophie." 

(J6CHER.) 

QO.     MONTALBODDO  (F.  DE}—  Above  a  woodcut  of  Venice  :  1  CI7, 

liaefi  nouamente  ritrouati  per  =  = 

la  Nauigatione  di  Spagna  in  Calicut  Et 
da  Alber  ||  tutio  Vefputio  Fiorentino  in- 
titulato  Mon  ||  do  Nouo  Nouamente  Im- 
prefla.  || 

Colophon  : 

€  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zorzi  de 
Rufconi  milla-  ||  nefe  :  Nel  .  M  .  ccccc  . 
xyii  .  adi  .  xyiii  .  Agofto  . 

*„*  Sm.  8vo  for  size  (sign.  A  in  fours,  b  to  q  in  eights),  title  one 
leaf-}-  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


464  Bibliotheca  Americana, 

1C  2O.          1 08  bis.    ANONYMOUS— "A.  new  interlude  and  a  mery 

-  of  the   nature   of   the    iiij    elements,    declarynge  many 

proper  poynts  of  phylofophy  naturall,  and  of  dyvers 

ftraunge   landys,    and    of  dyvers    ftraunge   effects   and 

caufes." 

"  It  treats,  according  to  the  introduction,  among  other  things,  'Of 
certeyn  poynts  of  cofmography,  as  how  and  where  the  fee  covereth 
the  yerth,  and  of  dyvers  ftraunge  regyons  and  landys,  and  whiche 
wey  they  lye,  and  of  the  new  found  landys,  and  the  maner  of  the 
people," 

Mr.  Collier  quotes  this  passage  : 

"  But  this  newe  lands  founde  lately 
Ben  callyd  America,  by  caufe  only 
Americus  dyd  furft  them  fynde." 

"First  impression  dated  25  Oct.,  II  Henry  VIII." — MS.  note  on 
the  Garrick  copy.  The  interlude  will  be  found  described  in  Col 
lier's  Annals  of  the  British  Stage,  ii,  319  ;  Ames's  Typographical  An 
tiquities  (Dibdin),  iii,  105;  Beloe's  Anecdotes,  i,  338-341'. 


189  bis.     RADIAN  (J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

EPITOME   ||  TRIVM    TERRAE    PAR   ||  TIVM,    ASIAE,    AFRICAE 

ET  EV  ||  ropts  compendiariam  locorum  defcriptionem  conti-  ||  nens, 
pracipue  autem  quorum  in  Atlis  Lucas,  \\paffim  autem  Euangeliftce 
y  ||  Apoftoli  meminere  ||  CVM  ADDITO  IN  FINE  ELENCHO  ||  regi- 
onum,  urbium,  omnium,  infularum,  quorum  No- 1|  uo  tejlamento  Jit 
mentio,  quo  expedites  plus  Leffor  ||  quoe  uelit,  inuenire  queat,  ||  PER 
IOACHIM  VADIA-  ||  NVM  MEDicvM.  ||  TiGVRi  apud  Chrijtopborum 
Frofcboue-  ||  rum,  An  .  M  .  D  .  xxxim  .  || 

*„.*  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  five  hundred  and  sixty-two  pages  + 
six  unnumbered  leaves. 

1  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Oct.  21,  1865,  p.  28,  sq. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  465 

29O.     ALBERINO  (N.}— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  549' 

WMflwto  g   f0  II  piofa  relacion :  totro  lo 

nueuamen||te  fufcetritro  en  log  l&egnog  g  probinll 
cia  trel  pern  trentre  la  gtra  a  ellos||trel  Wreg  ISlafco 
nune{  bela  f)afta||el  treflbarato  g  muerte  tre  (Bon^ 
palo  pt-||parro:  fegu  qlo  bio  g  efcrtbio  ^ticoiao  tre  || 
Eltentno  [sic]  jflorenttn  al  fcenefidatro  Jfernall 
ruaref  be{tno  tre  g?eutlla :  tririgitra  al  II  excellent* 
Mor  tio  Hugs  d&tiftoual  ||  ponce  tre  leo  trupe  tre 
Etcois  JEarqueg  tre  ||  ^aijara  contre  tre  la  fatef  ak 
eatre  magor  trellS^uilla  feftor  tre  la  billa  tr 
cftena  &c,  || 

Colophon  : 

Ecato^e  la  ptefente  otra  enla  mug  nofcle  g 
moratle  ciutratr  6  g?niilla  a  trojs  triag  trel  meg  tre 
IBnero  trel  afto  tre  (ttfjrtfto  tre .  IB .  2B  .  xlix  .  35n 
cafa  tre  Juan  tre  Heon.  Si^o  prtmeto  mantra  tra 
ber  g  earaminar  pot  log  mug  reueretros  g  mug  mag^ 
nificog  Scores  inpintrores :  g  con  fu  licecia  man- 
tratra  imprimir. 


We  mention  in  our  list  of  works  printed  on  this  con-     I  57  I 

tinent  in  the  sixteenth  century  (page  375)  what  would  -•. 

seem  to  be  two  different  editions  of  the  Vocabulario  of 
Molina,  published  in  1571,  whereas  those  two  numbers 
are  only  the  two  parts  of  the  same  work,  viz. :  the 
Spanish  &  Mexican,  and  Mexican  &  Spanish,  dic 
tionaries,  both  of  which  have  a  distinct  pagination,  and 
are  sometimes  bound  in  two  separate  volumes. 

59 


466  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I571-  VOCABVLARIO 

EN    LENGVA    CASTELLANA    Y    MEXICANA,   COM- 

puefto  por  el  muy  Reuerendo  Padre  Fray  Alonfo  de  Molina,  dela 
Orden  del  bienauenturado  nueftro  Padre  Sant  Francifco. 

DIRIGIDO    AL    MUY    EXCELENTE    SENOR 

Don  Martin  Enriquez,  Viforrey  deftanueua  Efpana 

Then  the  arms  of  the  Viceroy  Enriquez,  and: 

EN  MEXICO, 
en  Cafa  de  Antonio  de  Spinofa. 


*„,*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  leaves  +  leaves  numbered  1-121 
+  one  leaf  containing  a  large  woodcut  of  a  man  kneeling,  with 
printer's  mark  on  the  verso,  and  the  first  device  used  by  a 
Mexican  printer,  viz.  :  VIRTUS  IN  INFIRMITATE  PERFICITUR  ; 
+  one  leaf  for  another  title-page  like  the  above,  except  the 
second  line,  which  reads:  EN  LENGUA  MEXICANA  Y  CASTELLANA, 
and  a  woodcut  of  St.  Francis  instead  of  the  escutcheon  ;  then 
one  leaf-}-  leaves  numbered  1-162  ;  colophon  in  Mexican, 
on  the  verso. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX. 


When  describing  the  Paesi  nouamente  retrovati  of  1521 
(supra,  page  186),  we  endeavored  to  give  the  reasons 
which  had  led  us  to  ascribe  the  work  to  Alessandro  Zorzi, 
on  the  authority  of  Humboldt.  M.  D'Avezac  having 
called  our  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  word  compilatore, 
in  the  note  of  Baldelli,  did  not  mean  that  Zorzi  was  the 
compiler  of  the  printed  work  known  as  the  Paesi,  but 
only  the  collector,  so  to  speak,  of  the  manuscript  addi 
tions  to  the  Magliabechi  copy  of  the  Paesi,  we  requested 
Mr.  James  Lenox,  of  this  city,  to  write  to  one  of  his 
correspondents  in  Italy,  and  secure  a  transcript  of  these 
manuscript  notes,  which  had  not  escaped  the  researches 
of  M.  de  Varnhagen1. 

Mr.  Lenox's  correspondent  reported  that  there  had 
actually  been  in  the  Magliabechi  library  a  set  composed 
of  two  volumes  ;  one  lettered  "  Conti,"  the  other,  "Al- 
berico"  The  Conti  had  been  removed  to  the  Lauren- 
tian  library ;  but,  as  according  to  Baldelli's  account1  it 
contained  only  notes  relating  to  the  East,  its  removal, 
so  far  as  we  are  concerned,  was  of  no  moment. 

As  to  the  Alberico,  it  was  found  to  be  composed  of 
two  parts,  one  containing  printed  matter  exclusively3,  the 

1  "  Nous  reservons  pour  une   meilleure  *  Storia    del  Milione   in   //  Milione    di 

occasion  de  traiter   de  deux  volumes   [cl.  Marco  Polo,  Vol.  I,  pp.  xxxn-iu,  note   r. 

Xin,  No.  8 1  (non  pas  21)  84]  que  Baldelli  3  The  correspondent  did  not  state  what 

a  fait  connaitre,  dans  lesquels  se  trouvent  this    printed   matter    is,    but    the   note   of 

des  feuilles  de  1'edition  vicentine  de  1507,  M.   de  Varnhagen  shows  that  it  consists 

avec    des   additions    manuscrites."      {Bui-  of   an    original    edition    or   parts   of  the 

Itt.  de  la  Soc.  de  Geogr.,  Vol.  xv,  p.  252.)  Paesi  of  1507. 


470  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

other  only  manuscript  additions.  This  contained,  on 
the  first  page,  the  following  note  in  the  handwriting  (the 
keeper  said)  of  the  Abbate  Follini,  who  was  librarian 
of  the  Magliabechi  in  1820:  "81.  xin.  Alberlco.  8.  A 
pag.  32  si  vede  che  Yautore  'e  un  Alessandro  [one  word 
erased]  Zorzi  [one  word  erased]  che  e  Cancellato  [three 
words  erased]  V.  Foscarini  />•  3 1 5  della  Letterat.  Vene- 
ziana" 

The  first  word  erased  reads,  under  the  erasure  in  the 
manuscript  sent  to  us,  "forse";  the  second,  "perche"; 
the  third,  fourth  and  fifth,  "  o  forse  Strozzi." 

To  this  description  was  added  a  very  legible  copy  of 
the  manuscript  notes  which,  in  the  original,  covered 
thirty-five  small  I2mo  pages.  These  having  never  been 
printed,  and  seeming  to  us  of  a  very  interesting  character, 
we  republish,  literally,  herewith,  the  entire  manuscript, 
such  as  it  was  kindly  furnished  us  by  Mr.  James  Lenox. 


COPIA  DE  UNA  LETTERA  SCRIVE    SIMONE  DEL  VERDE  FIORENTINO 

IN     CADEZ,     LA     QUAL     SCRIVE    A    MATEO    CINI    FIORENTINO 

,49g.  MERCATANTE  IN  VINESIA  I    DI  2  GIENNARO    1498. C.    113. 

Non  mi  pare  di  reftar  di  fcrivervi  dille  cofe  di  qua  et  prima 

Zucari,    Cana-  circa  alia  quantita  di  Zuchari  che  di  Canaria  am.  300.     Et  di 

ria.  Madera  non  ciene  ne  funo.     Arete  intefo  de  Navilii  di  Ginea  in 

i °  Ethiopia' °  Lifbona  con  il  governo  in  Girolameo  Sernigi  dio  lo  dia  il  bene 

Infult  Indie,      a  fame.    Et  piu  vi  avifo  efler  venuto  e  navilii  delle  Infule  de  In- 

I4  dia  havendo  gia  con  lo  Admirante  che  gia  parti  di  qui  8  mefi 

fono  et  di  dil  fi  partirono  di  la  in  40  di  fi  condufceno  e  efendo  5 

Schia-vi,  300    anno  arecati  circa  a  300  fchiavi  et  alcuno  oro  :  et  molto  ver- 

oro  -vergino.      g}no  il  quale  e  di  tuta  perfc&ione  dicono  efTervi  felve  grandiffime. 

o.  in  medo       Alia  volta  di  la  difcoperfeno  nove  terre,  tenendofi  verfo  il  megio 

Poncntc.  ^i  °  piu  al  ponente  verfo  megio  di  dove  hanno  trovato  et  dicono 

Terra  ferma.     in  terra  ferma  natione  di  piu  conditione  che  le  altre  trovate  per 

Alhationt.        fino  a  hora :  hanno  buone  et  comoda  abitatione  et  afai  vivande 

Vini.  bianchi.    cne  hanno  vini  bianchi  et  vermigli  ma  non  di  uve  di  vite  han- 

Frufii  quad™-  no  animali  di  quatro  pie  quello   che    non  hanno  li  altri  lochi 

ftdl.  per  inanti  trovati :  furono  da  loro  Re  beniffimo  ricevuti  et  pre- 


Appendix.  47  1 

fentati  delle  loro  cofe  :   Dicono  eflervi  oro  aflai  ma  che  glie  baflb  o™  ba/ 
et  oltra  di  quefto  vi  fi  trovano  delle  perle  et  dicono  grofle  et  aflai  per/e. 
buone  non  vene  pofo  dare  apieno  notitia  dove  le  pefcano  et  in 
che  modo  et  la  quantita.     Hanno  belliflimo  paefe  molto   verde  paefe. 
et  fertile  di  abondantiflime  aque  dolce  fituate  :  fono  giente  belli-  fertile. 
cofe  ufano  rotelle  et  archi  :  Navicano  con  grande  legni  voti  d'un    '  '// 

i  r  •          /"»>i  •         u  L  » 

pecio  cavati  et  nanone  alai.     CJ  loto  una  copia  d  una  lettera  che  Zopoii. 

fcrive  lo  Admirante  al  Re  dandoli  della  imprefa  grande  fperancia. 

Et  e  grande  maraviglia  havere  delle  moltitudine  et  fortia  delle  aque  Aque.  dolce. 

dolce  che  ha  trovate  :   Dice  come  quelle  harene  fono  molto  alte  Granfuima 

Et  hanno  trovato  gran  feche  nelle  focie  del  fiume  in  modo  che  li 

navilii  non  potevono  refiftere  alia  abondantie  delle  aque  dolce  : 

Tale  che  ditte  nave  da  20.  leg.  in  uno  golfo  fempre  trovando  el  Mar  dol"e- 

mar  dolcie.     Che  diconvi  quello  che  dice  li  philofophi  che  la  O're^°n  Je' 

terra  ha  forma  fpherica.      Et  che  cierto  lo  admirante  ha  havuto  Mondo. 

grande  animo  et  ingiegnio  havere  difcoperto  1'altro  mondo  oppo- 

fito  al  noftro  con  tante  fatiche  et  fudori  et  vifto  la  mutatione  che 

fa  la  Tramontana  per  efler  ito  di  la  dalla  linea  del  equinoctiale 

che  mai  lo  harei  creduto  che  ci  potefe  habitare  gli  homeni  che 

ftimavo  fufli  tuta  aqua  et  non  terra  di  giorno  andrano  fcoprendo 

et  harafi  di  tuto  perfe&a  cognitione  di  che  di  tuto  quello  fe  in- 

tendera  vi  faro  con  mia  lettere  avifato. 


INFORMATIONS   DI  BARTOLOMEO    COLOMBO    DELLA  NAVIGATIONS 
DI    PONENTE    ET    GARBIN    DI    BERAGUA    NEL    MONDO    NOVO. 


"" 


Del  1505  eflendo  Bartolamio  Colombo  fratello  di  Chrifto-  1505. 
phoro  Colombo  da  poi  la  fua  morte  andato  a  Roma  per  haver 
lettere  del  pontifice  al  Re  di  Spagna  chel  volefe  efler  contento  di 
darli  caravelle  in  ordine  di  quel  bifognava  et  fpecialmente  di  frati 
do6ti  in  philofophia  et  Theologia  et  in  la  facra  fcriptura  et  quefto 
perche  fi  oferiva  ritornare  alle  terre  dil  mondo  novo  dove  infieme 
con  ditto  fuo  fratel  havea  del  1503  difcoperte  per  ponente  a  1503. 
Garbin  di  la  dalla  Spagnolo  da  miglia  3000  et  trovato  le  mine 
del  Oro  in  Beragua  et  altri  lochi  dove  con  facilita  fi  converteria 
con  facilita  tanti  popoli  alia  fede  criftiana  con  honor  et  utile. 
Di  che  ditto  Bartolomeo  confefato  da  uno  frate  Hieronimo  de 
1'ordine  di  frati  canonici  regulari  in  S.  Joanni  Laterano  li  dete 
di  fuo  mano  uno  difegnio  de  litti  di  tal  terre  dove  eron  difcripte  i 
lochi  la  conditione  et  natura  et  coftumi  et  abiti  di  quelli  popoli 
et  efendo  ditto  frate  Hieronimo  qui  in  Venetia  nel  monafterio 


472  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

loro  della  carita  eflendo  mio  amico  mi  dette  el  tal  difegno  et  el 
fimile  mi  dette  in  fcripto  la  conditione  et  popoli  di  tal  paefi  li  quali 

*  [Word  erased  m  brieve  lo  Alex0.*  .  .  .  li  notero  et  prima  cominciando  da  Gar- 

and  illegible.]  ^  veneanc|o  verfo  lo  Tropico  di  Cancro  dove  e  il  golfo  di  Denol 

fino  dove  non  poteno  cosi  bene  haver  notitia  di  tal  terre  per 

difeto  delle  lor  nave  che  eflendo  abifate  facevano  tanta  aqua  in 

modo  che  fe  afretorono  il  partirfi  et  navicaron  verfo  Spagna  che 

Ma.  -jm.  v'era  una  gran  via  da  farfi  miglia.  7000.  quefto  tal  mare  di 
Denol  in  molti  lochi  haveva  poco  fondo  et  havea  gran  corentia 

PO.  Retrete.  di  aque  portito  di  tal  loco  venono  a  uno  loco  ditto  RETRETE  nel 
qual  porto  et  per  tuta  tal  coftiera  maritima  trovoron  gran  copia 

Or0.  de  Oro  et  afai  lavorato  optimamente  et  habitata  di  giente  afai 

molto  apti  et  ben  difpofti  i  quali  baratavano  il  fuo  Oro  tentuono 
per  cofe  picole  et  di  poco  precio  et  di  li  fcorendo  per  tal  coftiera 

Porto  Bastimen-  da  uno  porto    de    BASTIMENTOS    et    per    EL    BEL    PORTO  et  a  portO 

tos,Bcpcrro,  GROSSO  nelle  qual  lochi  bafi  fono  habitate  da  giente  rufticana  et 

porto    Grosso.  /•  •      i  i       '  •       J    l       •  i  11  ^       ^          r  r 

hano  alai  abondantia  del  vivere  al  qual  hanno  tuta  la  lor  rantaha. 

Et  le  loro  cafe  et  abitationi  fono  in  cima  a  grandi  Arbori  altiilimi 

Dormono,  fu  li  dove  dormono  et  quefto  fano  per  dubito  che  egli  hanno  de  nemici. 

Arbon.         Dipoi  feguitando  pur  verfo  lo  Tropico  dil  Cancro  in  el  loco  di 

Beragua.  BERAGA  el  quale  e  apreflo  a  uno  flume  in  una  gran  Valle  per  le 

Oro.  concavita  dille  quale  fon  molte  cave  de  Oro  nove  in  le  quale  i 

ditti  Spagnoli  ne  (ricolfono)  afunorono.  Et  quelli  Indiani  del  paefe 
Ma.  60.  riferirono  che  in  fra  terra  da  ckca  a  miglia  60  verfo  la  provintia 

Sur>  „  ditta  SVR.  efler  altre  cave  de  Oro  et  magior  molto  :  in  le  qual  uno 

I.  aujtralt.  T     i         •  vr  r     i  j      /-v         •         i 

Oro  certo  Judeo  in  uno  di  aluno  uno  lacheto  de  Oro  in  el  quale  era 

marche  do  di  pefo  et  riferi  molte  altre  cofe  admirante  Dichon  per 
efler  ftato  di  li  nella  vernato  quando  navicorono  in  nello  ebono  di 
gran  piogie  continue  con  molte  fortune  :  Partendo  di  qui  fegui- 

Careba.  tando  ditta  Cofta  trovorono  uno  loco  ditto  CAREBA  dove  e  uno 

flume  che  ha  oro  in  quello  fecondo  difle  tal  Indi  eron  con  loro  in 
li  navilii :  et  cosi  vedemo  ditti  popoli  che  ne  portavono  al  collo 
per  colana.  Seguitando  piu  oltre  trovarono  il  moir  et  magior 

Cammbaru.  porto  che  fia  in  tal  Cofta  il  qual  fi  chiama  CARAMBARV  :  ma  li 
habitant!  fon  molti  filveftri  et  vano  nudi  et  fon  copiofi  di  cofe  et 

Oro.  cibi  da  vivere  et  de  Oro  et  per  il  gran  caligo  et  bruma  vi  trovamo 

in  ditto  porto  per  efler  il  verno  per  tal  paura  non  volleno  dimor- 

CaHai.  arvi.  Seguitando  piu  oltre  in  fino  a  una  terra  chiamata  CARIAI 

in  la  quale  habita  gente  de  bona  forte  che  vivono  de  induftria  et 

Mala.  mercantia  come  fi  fa  in  la  provincia  la  qual  chiamon  MAIA.  Sono 

grandi  incantatori  i  quali  come  ci  vidono  difmontare  a  terra  molti 
di  loro  ci  veneno  in  contre  et  ci  recetorono  con  uno  pie  tenendo 

Scpukro  inanzi  che  e  tra  lor  fegno  di  pace  :   In  quefto  loco  vidono  uno 

Sculpito.  Sepulcro  con  fue  volte  di  cube  di  sopra  nelle  qual  era  intagliato 


Appendix.  473 

diverfi  animali  di  varie  nature.     Et  portoronci  porci  vivi  come  i  Pord. 

noftri :  et  altre  cofe  afai  che  fia  cofa  lunga  da  riferire.     In  tal 

loco  fi  trova  gomma  in  gran  copia  perfe&a.     Et  di  qui  parten-  Goma. 

dofi  par  navicando  verfo  il  pol  artico  per  il  Tropio  dil  Cancro 

infino  al  voltar  de  uno  Cao  che  va  al  ponente  che  fi  chiama  porto 

di  CONSVCLA  dove  inanzi  il  ditto  mare  le  aque  hanno  gran  corfo  C°nl^la- 

et  fa  gran  onde  per  eflervi  poco  fondo  in-fino  a  Leghe  20  di  £e  2Q' ay"' 

fpatio  tuto  da  bracia  20  di  fondo  fi  trova  et  non  piu.     Et  cosi  poco  fondo. 

difcorendo  per  ogni  liga  crefce  uno  brazzo  di  fondo  fi  trova  di 

piu  :     La  terra  ferma  e  feconda  et  da  ogni  hora  et  tempo  le  nave 

pol  gitar  le  fue  ancore.     Tal  mar  dura  per  60  Leghe  dove  navi-  60  Le. 

cando  per  60   di   confumorono   cosi   disfcorrendo :     Seguitando 

verfo  ponente  per  tal  liti  pervenuti  a  uno  loco  ditto  TENABAXA  f°nen*e 

dal  R.  di  COBRE  :     Dove  le  gente  che  in  tal  lochi  habitano  fono  p^ceh-"' 

molti  bruti  ma  di  bon  corpo  di  color  lionato  con  capelli  lunghi 

fparti.     Le  lor  femine  hanno    grande    orechie  di   grandecia    di  Onchie  grandi. 

uno  palmo  et  con  forami  tanto  grandi  che  ci  paferia  uno  pugno. 

Vivono  di  carne  humana  come  fa  i  Canibali.    Et  cosi  etiam  man-  Cambalt. 

r  .  ,.  .»  .....  ..  r      -\-  •  Antropo. 

giano  i  pefci  crudi  cosi  come  h  pighano  del  mare  le  li  mangiano  ict-wphagi_ 
sentia    cuocerli :     Et    cosi  li  hano  veduti  mangiar   delle  fpecie  spctiaric 
mangiamo  noi  che  dicono  trovarfi  in  fra  terra  gran  copia.     E 
per  cagion  delle    piogie  grande  v'era  non  poteno  intendere  ne 
cercare  tal  cofe  come  saria  stato  il  loro  difiderio.     Navicando 
piu  oltre  a  tal  ripe  verfo  ponente  in  fin  al  porto  di  CASERMAS.  Porto  dl  Cafcr- 
Dove   in  tal  provincia  e  frequente    habitatione  et  gente  molto  /J!^.'/. 
manfueta   et    vergognofa    con    fue    carte    in    modo    fachi    fentia 
maniche  ma  optimamente  lavorati  et  cuopreno  le  loro  vergogne  Lavori  optimi. 
con  fue  bragefe  et  hanno  coraze  di  bambafo  si  grofe  et  folte  che  Brag*fe>  'oraxe. 
una  baleftra  non  le  paferia.     Le  femine  fi  veftono  di  li  panni  can- 
didi  et  mangiano  di  quel  medefimo  grano  come  fi  fa  in  1'infula  di  Banafa  infula. 
BanafTa  in  mar  qui  a  rincontro.     Et  oltra  di  quefto  hanno  molte  Pane  di  grano. 
galine  grande  come  paoni  et  gran  copia  di  fricelli  et  altri  acellami :  Galine,fricelli. 
La  infula  di  BANASSA  qui  dirincontro  ha  giente  molto  robusta  che  Infula  Banafa. 
adorano  li  Idoli.     Et  il  loro  vivere  fi  e  maximamente  di  certo  Itloli- 
grano   biancho  di  grandecia  de  uno  cefare  et  nafce  cosi  come  SorS'  Hancki. 
nafcie  in  le  balleare  nelle  panochie  del  quale  fano  pane  optimo.  Pane- 
Et  cosi  fanno  Ceruofa  perfettiflima :     In  alcune  altre  Infule  fi  e  Ceruofa. 
la  terra  fimile  al  Oro  li  criftiani  li  quali  poteno  tore  di  quella  la  Oro  f'™il, 
ferbavono  con  diligentia  da   8   mefi   1'afcondevono   exiftimando  non  bono- 
chel  fufi  oro  :     In  quefto  loco  pigliorono  una  Nave  loro  carica  Nave  carica. 
di  mercantia  et  merce  la  quale  dicevono  veniva  da  una  cierta  pro-  M***1  *"*&*• 
vintia  chiamata  MAIAM  vel  luncatam  con  molte  veste  di  bam-  yeste  j;  ^am. 
basio  de  le  quale  ne  erono  il  forcio  di  sede  di  diversi  colori.     bafio,  efeda. 

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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Merce. 

Latna,    Infula 
Oaquca. 

Insu/a  Manava. 

Infula  Olava. 

*  "  La  qual  e 
fcripta  da  poi 
che  araivolta- 
to  carte  i  2.  che 
feguita  la 
qual." 

[FOLLINI?] 


Da  poi  ditta  Infula  di  banafla  navicando  verfo  ponente  fine  a  uno 
Cao  de  Lama  trovorono  poco  luntano  da  terra  3  infule  cioe  la 
prima  chiamata  OAQVELOIR.  la  feconda  MANAVA  :  la  terra  OA- 
LAVA.  di  poi  non  navicoron  piu  oltri  et  voltoron  la  proa  per  le- 
vante  verfo  la  Cuba  et  la  Spagnola  per  efler  le  lor  nave  male  in 
afeto  che  eron  abifate  diflbn  molte  altre  cofe  le  quale  non  dico 
perche  per  la  lettera*  che  fcrive  Chriftophoro  Colombo  fuo 
fratel  al  Re  di  Spagnia  come  intenderete. 


1492. 


Bartolomeo    Co 
lombo. 

Li  brodi  coftumi. 

Fantafmate. 
Simulacri. 
Figure. 
Zemtn. 

Jocauna. 

Guamanocon. 

Attabeira. 

Mamonia. 

Guacarapita. 

Jiella. 

Guimazoa. 

Cauti  m. 
Cazibafagaca 

fpclonca. 
Amaiauna. 
Machocael. 


Mirabolani. 


FEDE    ET    SUPERSTITIONE    ET    COSTUMI    DE    L INSULA    SPAGNOLA 
MANDATAMI  DA  FERRARA  PER  MESSER  ZUANE  DE  STROZI. 

Quando  Chriftophoro  Colombo  1492  tiovo  le  infule  Spagnole 
tra  le  altre  cofe  referivan  fi  fu  che  li  popoli  di  ditta  infula  non 
adoravono  altro  che  il  cielo  pianeti  e  ftelle.  Ma  da  poi  che 
1'anno  habitata  et  imparato  la  lingua  1'un  con  1'altro  fi  fono 
dimefticati  hanno  cognofuto  quelli  haver  varie  cirimonie  et  varie 
coftumi  come  per  il  frate  heremita  Romano  che  Bartolomeo 
Colombo  fratello  di  ditto  Chriftophoro  condufe  da  Roma  in  fino 
a  ditta  Infula  per  amaeftrar  et  ridur  ditti  Infulani  alia  fede  noftra 
criftiana  di  che  compofe  uno  libro  di  lor  coftumi.  Delli  quali 
in  quefta  di  alquanti  fi  dira.  Et  prima  dicono  in  ditta  infula  la 
no£te  aparere  alcune  fantafmate  et  vifioni  che  loro  infenfati  con- 
ponono  alcuni  fimulacri  i  quali  vengono  adorare  et  sentando  in 
terra  fu  coltre  di  bambafo  figurono  alcuni  boni  demoni  come  da 
noi  fi  piatrica.  Et  queftri  fimulacri  chiamano  zemen  i  quali 
adorano  per  dii  eterni  che  dicono  effer  dua  cioe  chiamono  i° 
Jocauna  e  1'altro  magior  Guamanocon  :  e  quali  dicono  aver  5 
madre  che  una  a  nome  Attabeira  :  Mamonia  :  Guacarapita  : 
Jiella  :  Guinazoa  :  In  ditta  infula  e  una  Regione  che  fi  chiama 
caunana  dove  per  grote  di  dui  monti  dicono  efler  ufito  la  genera- 
tione  di  homini  cioe  dalla  magior  fpelonca  la  magior  parte :  et  dalla 
minor  fpelonca  ala  minor  Cauta  chiamono  ditti  monti  et  la  magior 
fpelonca  chiamono  Cazibafagaca  la  minor  Amaiauna.  Et  il  pri- 
mo  che  da  ditta  Caverna  ufite  chiamato  Machochael  il  qual  havea 
guardia  di  ditta  bocha  ogni  no£te  ufite  fuori  per  poca  diftantia 
et  vifto  in  1'aurora  il  fole  non  potendo  foporta  di  veder  tal  luce  fi 
transformo  in  Saxo  :  Et  cosi  dimolti  altri  che  di  noclie  ufivono 
di  tal  Caverna  per  andar  a  pefcare  et  non  pofendo  ritornar  inanci 
che  il  fole  fi  levafe  di  che  vifto  tal  luce  per  la  pena  che  non  li  era 
licito  veder  di  fubito  fi  tramutorono  i  li  arbori  che  fano  i  Mira 
bolani  che  in  detta  infula  nafcono  da  lor  pofta  in  quantita  fentia 


Appendix.  47  5 

efler  piantati :  Dicono  ancori  un  principal  chiamato  Vaguoniona 
il  qual  mandate  uno  fuo  famieio  a  pefcar  fuor  di  ditta  Caverna  vagmniona. 
per  non  efler  potato  tornar  ancora  lui  inanci  fi  levafi  il  Sole  fi 
tramuto  in  uno  lufignolo.  II  quali  ulcello  ogni  anno  dipoi  in  la 
no£te  et  in  el  tempo  fu  convertito  di  ucello  canta  et  fi  lumenta  di 
tal  fua  mala  forte  di  che  al  fuo  patrone  chiamato  Vaguonione 
dimanda  aiuto  :  Et  per  quefto  dicono  che  il  lufignuolo  canta  di 
note.  Dipoi  il  ditto  Vaguonione  il  qual  amava  grandemente 
ditto  fuo  famiglio  fi  partite  di  tal  fpelonca  et  condufe  fora  fola- 
mente  le  femine  con  fui  fancielli  li  quali  lactavano  et  andoron  a 
una  Infula  di  li  poco  diftante  la  quale  e  chiamata  MATHININA.  If°la  Matheni- 
dove  lafcio  ditte  femine  et  riporto  feco  e  fanculini  dipoi  lafati  na 
aprefo  a  uno  fiumicello  comincior  a  pianger  dicendo  :  toa  toa.  I.  Toa  Toa. 
mama  mama  in  modo  furo  convertiti  in  Ranochi  et  per  quefto 
dico  in  la  primavera  tal  ranochi  cominciono  a  cantar :  Et  in 
quefto  modo  dicono  li  homini  efler  ufiti  da  ditte  Caverne  et  fparfi 
per  tuta  ditta  Infula  Spagnola  fenci  lor  femine.  Et  cosi  dico 
ditto  Vaguoniona  vagando  per  diverfi  lochi  et  per  gratia  fpecial 
mai  efler  ftato  transformato  fe  non  da  una  formofa  femina  la  qua' 
vide  in  mare  dove  difefe  et  da  lei  have  cierti  quagoleti  marmorei 
i  quali  chiamano  Cibas  et  ancor  certe  taolete  auree  li  qual  chia- 
mon  Guaniones.  Quefte  tal  gieme  legate  in  fino  a  quefto  giorno 
aprefo  e  loro  Re  fono  tenute  e  reverite  come  cofe  facre.  Li 
homeni  che  fencia  le  lor  femine  rimafeno  in  la  fpelonca  di&a  di 
fopra  la  nofte  lavadi  tuti  in  cierti  fofle  dove  era  adunato  aqua 
afai  piovana  fe  ne  ufirono  et  in  fino  a  quefto  tempo  ufano  tal 
bagni :  e  fubito  ufiti  dicono  concorfeno  alii  albori  Mirabolani 
dove  per  fopra  caminavono  infinite  formi  che  adunate  et  loro  Formk 
con  le  mani  come  tante  femine  le  qua'  ftringendo  fcorevono  fuor 
delle  mani  come  fe  fufi  ftate  anguille  :  Vanno  a  dimandar  con- 
figlio  da  vechi  configlieri  et  vano  a  cercar  fe  alcuno  tra  lo  ci  e 
che  fia  rogniofi  e  levrofi  over  che  habino  le  man  callofe  et  afpere 
acio  pofla  ritenere  quelle  con  mani  facilmente  :  et  quefti  tal  ho 
mini  li  chiamono  Caracaracole  :  Et  cosi  vano  a  caciar  et  benche  Caraca 
ne  piglan  molte  niente  dimeno  non  ne  tengon  fe  non  quatro  le 
qual  ufano  per  femine.  Et  dicon  mancar  loro  la  fua  natura.  Et 
por  quefto  dicono  ritornan  dalli  vechi  per  configlio  acio  che  loro 
li  mandino  1'ucello  pico  che  con  fuo  beco  acuto  intri  in  le  cofle  Pico  uc 
loro  oprendo  la  natura  a  dite  femine  dove  da  quelle  e  poi  difefo 
li  altri :  Et  qui  e  da  maravigliare  come  fi  lege  di  Myrmidone  Mirmi 
da  greci  difcripto  in  tanti  volumi  che  dalle  formiche  efler  difefi  e 
myrmidoni :  Siche  in  quefto  modo  i  lor  fapienti  con  gravita  et 
riputation  i  lor  pergoli  et  lochi  eminenti  danno  a  intendere  a  li 
ditti  Infulani  fimplicioti  a  perfuaderli  il  credere  quefte  tal  cofe  per 


476  Eibllotheca  Americana. 

Origint  dil  vere  et  fecre.  Circa  a  1'origine  del  Mare  dicono  efler  ftato  in 
mare.  jaia.  ditta  Infula  uno  potentiffimo  homo  chiamato  Jaia  il  quale  (fie) 
uno  unico  fiolo  il  quale  ufite  di  una  Zucha  in  loco  di  fepulcro 
edificato  dipoi  quefto  Jaia  pafati  alquanti  mefi  inpacienti  per  la 
morte  del  fio  torno  a  ditta  Zucha  la  qual  aperfe  ufite  una  gran 
balena  et  ferata  la  ditta  Zucha  ....  convicini  ai  mari  per  la  qual 
fama  quatro  gioveni  nati  in  uno  portato  cun  fperancia  di  haver 
tal  pefce  in  la  Zucha  la  prefe  con  le  mazi.  Supravenuto  Jaia  il 
quale  havea  incufo  li  ofli  in  tal  Zucha  quelli  Juveni  infpauriti  per 
tal  facrilegio  ne  non  efler  acufati  per  tal  furto  da  Jaia.  Et  vog- 
lando  fuger  la  Zuca  li  caso  in  terra  per  il  gran  pefo  et  fe  rupe  et 
per  tal  fifure  ufite  fora  il  Mare  il  quale  fcorrendo  per  le  valle 
et  per  la  gran  planicie  circoncirca  impiendo  etieto  che  le  cime  de' 
monti  et  lochi  eminenti  che  rimafeno  fcoperti  et  cauforono  le 
infule  le  qua'  al  prefente  fi  vegono.  Et  ancor  dicono  che  quelli 
fratelli  per  paura  di  Jaia  andoron  fugendo  per  diverfi  lochi  in 
modo  che  da  fame  fi  mancono  per  non  haver  ardimento  di  fer- 
marfi  et  andorono  a  bater  la  porta  de  un  fornaro  ca  zabi  uno 
pane  dimandando  ditto  fornaro  nel  intrar  feceno  in  cafa  loro  li 
fputorono  adofo  in  tal  fputo  perniciofo  per  il  qual  morite  ditto 
fornaro.  Configlatofi  i  ditti  fratelli  con  una  prieta  agucia  lo 
aperfono  per  la  qual  ferita  nafete  una  femina  et  i  ditti  fratelli  la 
uforono  infieme  da  la  qual  nafete  et  mafchi  et  femine.  Oltra  a 
ja-vanaboina.  quefto  dicono  chi  fi  trova  una  fpelonca  che  fi  chiama  Javanaboina 
Machlnnech.  dal  nome  de  uno  Re  di  quel  paefe  il  quale  fi  chiama  Machinnech 
il  quale  e  uno  loco  piu  religiofo  tra  loro  che  non  e  S.  Jacopa  di 
PiEiurt.  Galitia.  El  quale  e  ornato  di  molte  picture  varie  et  ha  due  porte 

Porte  fculpte.     fcujpte  di  quelli  fuo  demones  che  chiamon  Zemes  dille  qual  una 
BiMaltalU.        chiamon  Bintaitalle  1'altra  Marochum  et  dimandato  loro  perche 
Marocho.          con   tanta  divotione  adoron   ditta  fpelonca  dico  che  il  fole  e  la 
luna  ufiron  fuor  di  li  per  inluminar  il  mondo  :  et  con  gran  gravita 
Spclonca.          quefti  infenfati  dicono  quefte  cofe.     El  tal  Spelonca  ha  tanto  con- 
corfo   di   perfone   che   vano  et  vengono  come  fa  in  nelli  noftri 
tempi!  in  li  gran  perdoni.     Et   un  altro  modo   di   fuperftitione 
dicono  che  da  poi  la  morte  vano  vagabondi  et  che  fi  pafono  de 
uno  fru&o  de  uno  Arboro  che  nafce  tra  loro  fimile  a  uno  Co- 
0  og"°-     togno  a  nui  igcognito.     Et  converfare  tra  i  vivi  piglando  forma 
de  homeni  dormire  con  le  fue  femine  et  inganarle  et  come  ven- 
gono  in  ful  compir  del  foticio  vano  in  vefibile.     Et  fe  per  ventura 
alcuni  fufpetano  di  giafer  con  i  morti  fentendo  qualche  nova  cofa 
in  leto  ufando  alcun  mormorar.     Et  fi  dicon  che  li  Morti  pof- 
fono  pigliar  ogni  membro  humano  ecieto  che  lo  imbeligo  et  cosi 
al  obelico  fi  cognofce  fe  fon  morti  ho  vivi :     Et  cosi  credono  che 
fpefo  di  nocte  per  le  vie  publice  fe  incontrano  morti  afai  et  fe  quel 


Appendix.  477 

che  camina  non  fi  metera  paura  dicono  che  la  fantafma  fe  rifolve : 

Et  fe  1'ara  paura  perfevererano  in  modo  che  quelli  tali  rimarano 

lefi  et  ftupidi :   Dimandati  dalli  noftri  dove  inparano  tal  coftumi 

vani  che  e  una  pefte  fra  loro  dicono  haver  per  heredita  dai  fuoi 

magiori.     Et  che  non  e  licito  infegnar  tal  cofe  et  canti  fe  non 

alii  fioli  delli  Re  et  dicono  mai  haver  lettere  fra  loro  e  tuto  con  No"  hanno  let- 

la  memoria  prefervano.     Et  i  li  di  feftivi  cantano  et  fonano  i  ^rf'ar  Sonar 

pupoli  come  fi  fa  a  li  di  facri  et  hanno  uno  folo  infturmento  di  inturmento. 

legno    concavo    dito    Reboans    in    modo    uno    timpano  :    et    li 

fui  facerdoti  auguri  i  quali  fi  chiamon  Boviite  che  li  acoftumano  Boviite. 

di   tal  fuperftitione.      Et  cosi  fono   i   Medici   che    infegnono   a 

mile  donne  vechie  infenfate  plebee  di  mile  fraude.     Item  i  ditti 

auguri  conftringono    i   ditti   plebei    a    credere  il   tuto  per   efler 

di    grande  au6torita  aprefo  d'efi  che    dicon   parlar    con   Zemes 

et  che  tuto  fano  :     Li  Boviti  li  conftringono  a  degunar  et  pur- 

garfe  :    Pignano  una  cierta  polvere  di  una  herba  la  qua  bevono  Pol™"  ^ 

et  fubito  fi  convertono  in  uno  furor  a  modo  obriache  gemendo  et 

per  rifanarfe  piglano  qualche  calculo  di  prieta  o  peco  di  carte  in 

bocha.     Et  fo  circondati  atorno  da  quelli  Boviiti  da  3.  ho  4  volte 

torcando  la  fatia  le  labra  con  bruti  gefti  fufiando  li  amalai  el  colo 

le  tempie  e  la  fronte  piglando  aiere  e  dicono  tirar  via  tuto  il  mal 

che  hanno  in  le  vene  che  li  tengono  in  malatia  fregando  ditti  Medicamenti. 

amalati  si  le  cofe  come  et  le  gambe  et  petignone  et  con  le  man 

coniunte  infieme  corono  verfa  la  punta  aperta  lavandofi  ( ? )  le 

mani  et  a  quefto  modo  perfuadena  haver  caciato  il  morbo :  quello 

che  dirietro  tiene  in  bocha  uno  pezo  di  carne  verfo  come  prefti- 

giatore   crida  dicendo  cio  chel  mangera  ultra  alia  fua  necefita. 

Tu  ftarai  fano  perche  ho  ritrato  il  mal.     Et  fe  el  vede  che 

1'amalado  ftia  mal  li  da  ad  intender  che  el  fuo  Zemen  e  corociato 

con  lui  per  non  lo  haver  honorato  come  el  dovea  ne  fabricatoli 

qualche  loco.     Et  fe  lo  amalato  moriva  li  fui  parenti  eron   con- 

ftreti  di  confefare  efler  con  fui  venefitii  morto  et  fi  per  non  haver 

re&amente  iciunato  ne  eciam  dandoli  buone  medecine.      Et  fi  i 

medici  Boiiti  fufen  fta  caufa  di  fua  morte  facevono  vendita   di 

ditto  Boiito.     De  le  prietuze  over  ofli  che  ditto  Boiito  portafe 

in  bocha.      Se  ditti  prietuze  et  ofli  fono  legate  et  pofte  invoke 

in  panni  fervate  con  fede  giovono  afai  alii  fuoi  fanculli  et  ditte 

femine  tengon   ditte  priete  et  ofli  come  zemii :   I  ditti  Infulani 

vogliono  che  fia  varii  zemes  i  quali  adorano  alcuni  che  vengono 

di  note  in  vifione  tra  li  arbori  li  fculpifcono  di  legno  :  Altri  che  Sculpture. 

daran  rifpofta  tra  i  faxi  li  fcolpifcono  di  marmoro  :  Alcuni  che 

intra  le  radice  di  erbe  che  mangiono  in  loco  di  pane  chiamate 

Dies   che   ditte  zenes  hano  cura  di  tal  pane  per  efler  lor  cibo.  £^W«. 

Come  apreflb  delli  antiqui  le  Driades  Amadryades  et  Satyri  et 


478  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Satiri,  Panni.    pani  et  Nereide  de  fonti  Selve  et  mari  hovevon  cura  :   Et  cosi 

Nereide.  (jjtti  Infulani  a  ciachedun  il  fuo  zemes  il  quale  lo  chiamano  in 

ogni  lor  bifogni :  Et  cosi  nello  evenimento  dilla  guerra  et  in  la 
careftia  et  abondantia  il  fuo  (fee)  che  i  fui.  Re  vogliono  con- 
figlio  dimandono  a  ditto  Zemes  :  et  vanno  in  la  caxa  dedicata  a 

Herba  Chokob-  Zemes  e  forbendo  per  le  nave  di  quello  polvere  dell'  herba  dita 
ba-  Chohobba  la  quale  i  Boviiti  fabito  convertife  in  furor  che  li  par 

Infant.  che  tuta  la  caxa  il  volta  a  roverfo  da  fondamenti  e  por  che  li 

homeni  caminino  alia  roverfa.  Tanta  forcia  ha  in  fi  ditta  Cha- 
hobba  che  fubito  toglie  i  fenfi  a  chi  la  piglia  che  diventon  pazi 
et  dormentano  e  brazi  e  ginochi  et  elevato  i  fumi  alia  tefta  li  fa 
lor  venir  una  lente  fonolentia  torcendo  li  ochi  verfo  il  cielo  et  par- 
lando  cofe  confufe  et  quelli  primarii  della  cafa  che  foli  con  voce 
grande  cridano  dimandando  gratia  (Ma  non  voiono  che  niuno 
de'populari  entrano  a  tal  facrifitio)  di  che  dicono  che  el  Zemis  e 
venuto  loro  a  parlare  et  ridicono  quello  hanno  vifto  dicendo  che 
quando  quel  inebriate  apriva  la  bocha  che  il  Zemes  li  parlava  : 

Spiritati.  Et  che  fe  fera  fame  o  pefte  o  ricever  alcuna  victoria  a  abondantia 
over  tuto  quello  ha  intraveni  et  efTer  che  il  fuo  Zemes  tuto  li  dice. 
Come  etiam  dicono  li  antiqui  del  fpirito  Apollineo  che  par  che 
quella  fuperftitione  che  erano  aprefo  li  antiqui  non  fia  perfa  come 
generalmente  di  fopra  di  tal  Zemes  fe  e  ditto.  Circa  alle  partic 
ular  delli  qual  dicano  ditti  Infulani  diremo  di  alcuni.  Uno  Re 

Guaccanariilo.    ditto  Guamareto  dicono  havea  un  Zemes  che  havea  come  Coro- 

Corochotus.  chotus  il  qual  tegniva  aligato  di  fopra  al  colmo  della  cafa  el  qua' 
fecurava  (Jtc)  il  quale  per  cafon  di  coito  over  per  mangiar  rom- 
peva  i  ligani  et  fe  andava  a  fcondere  in  cierte  rupe  de  moni  et 
cosi  cruciato  per  alcuni  di  fi  fcondeva  :  et  quefto  perche  ditto 
Re  Guamareto  havea  mancato  dil  fuo  orar  ne'  facri.  Item  dicon 
che  in  ditta  regio  in  una  Villa  di  Guamareto  fi  fie  uno  fanciullo 
che  havea  due  corone  ftimando  efler  fiol  di  Corochoto  Zemis  Di 
che  dico  quefto  Re  Guamareto  fu  vinto  in  bataia  dal  fonimico  et 
fuli  ruiana  la  caxa  et  guafto  ditta  fua  Villa  fi  con  fogo  e  ferro 

Miracoi.  dice  quefto  Corochoto  brufando  la  cafa  ufci  de  fui  ligami  et  poi 

fu  trovato  luntano  p;u  de  uno  miglio.  Un  altro  Zemen  chia- 
mato  Epileguarita  di  legno  di  quatro  pie  il  quale  fpefo  fugiva  alle 
felve  dal  loco  dove  era  adorato  et  con  fupliche  piatofe  fabricatoli 
uno  tempiuzo  1'axportorono.  Et  di  poi  gionto  i  criftiani  Spag- 
noli  a  ditta  infula  quefto  fe  ne  fugi  et  mai  piu  dipoi  e  ftato  tro- 

Statua  Mar-  vato  et  quefto  fu  auguno  de  la  lor  perdita  dilla  patria  loro. 
Quefto  fe  aintefo  dai  vechi.  Un  altro  Zemen  Marmoreo  i 
quali  quefti  adoravono  di  Saxo  femineo  al  qua  dui  miniftri  mafculi 
havevono  cura  de  efo  :  uno  di  quefti  havea  1'offitio  di  pcone  et  i 
altri  Zemes  in  aufilio  dilla  femina  inperante  a  concitar  vento 


Appendix.  479 

nebule  et  piogie.     Un  altro  dicono  per  mandate  di  tal  famine 

facendo  difcendere  dai  alti  monti  le  aque  et  congregarle  in  le 

valle  in  modo  di  fiume  fcorrendo  per  li  campi  et  guaftando  il  tuto 

fe  gia  tal  popoli  non  fi  coregiefeno  et  adorafono  con  debiti  modi. 

Un  altra  gran  cofa  diremo  degna  di  memoria  e  quali  dicon  ditti  GuaHonexio. 

Infulani  cioe  che  fono  ftati  duo  Re  dil  qual  uno  ditto  Guarionexio  5  &  dlgiuno 

gia  ditto.     II  quale  per  cinque  di  continui  non  mangio  ne  beve 

et  quefto  per  obtignir  gratia  dal  zemes  di  poter  intendere  le  cofe 

future  di  che  li  fu  concefo  tal  gratia  dal  fuo  zemes  per  tal  deguno  Profctia. 

Che  fu  quefto  che  li  difle  che  non  pafleria  tropi  anni  chel  veria 

una  gente  veft'ta  di  panni  a  ditta  infula  la  qual  ruinerei  la  lor  fede 

et   coftumi  et  cerimonie  i  quali  tuti  tuti  peririano  et  farian  fati 

fervi  et  privi  di  ogni  bene  di  che  la  guventu  ftimorono  fuffi  quefto 

per   caufa  di  canibali  fimavono  (fie]  di  che  come  fentivono  che 

Canibali  arivafe  a  lor  Ripe  tuti  fugivano  per  dubito  di  tal  aveni- 

mento  di  che  temevono  eflere  a  le  mani  con  loro.     Ma  como 

vidono  che  li  hifpani  arivorono  a  la  lor  Infula  fi  congregorono 

tuti  infieme  et  conclufono  quefta  efler  la  gente  che  havea  profe- 

tizata  la  zemes  ditta  (Che  in   vero  non  parlo  indarno)  perche 

intrato  i  criftiani  tuti  fono  fati  criftiani  et  morti  li  oftinati  fi  che 

non   c'e  piu   mentione   di  zemefe  per  efler  ftati  tuti  portati  in 

Spagna  acio  fi  fia  cognofuto  e  fuo  demoni  et  fua  fallacia.     Molte 

altre  cofe  circa  a  quefte  fe  haria  potuto  dir  ma  quefte  per  hor 

bafta. 

DESCRIPTIO  DI  COSE  TROVATE  PER  CASTIGLIANI  IN  UN  DIS- 
CORSO  DAL  1500  INFINO  AL  1510  DA  DIVERSIE  CARAVELLE 
IN  QUESTI  DIECE  ANNI.  -  C. 


I  Litti  della  provincia  Paria  che  nel  Occeano  verfo  Garbin  da  Par\a  fo-vin- 
Chriftophoro  Colombo   del  1498  a  li  Liti  del  mondo  Novo  fa     "g" 
fcoperta  et  cosi  da  Vuntrienne  (sic)  et  da  pincone  in  fin   1500  1500. 
come  nolli  antecedent!  libri  fi  legie  di  poi  per  fino  al  1510  e  ftato  1510. 
fcoperto  in  quefti  diece  anni  non  folum  da  Colombo  dito  ma  da 
molti  altri  i  quali  dicono  per  lungo  tra6to  andando  verfo  ponente 
vogliono  fi  vadi  a  coniungere  con  i  liti  Indici  fono  prima  diven- 
uti  in  due  Regioni  nove  da  poi  di&a  Paria  cioe  Beragua  trovata  BERAGUA. 
per  ditto  Colombo  1502.  et  dipoi  de  una  altra  da  altri  chiamata  1502. 
VRAVA  Le  quale  fono  piene  di  Oro  et  Incenfo  et  dove  fi  ufano  VRAVA- 
Colane  d'oro  le  qual  furono  aprefentate  et  cofi  incenfi  ma  prima  eJ^«  ^v*' 
hebeno  molte  guerre  da  loro  tamen  per  efler  mal  armati  et  quafi 
nudi  ne  furono  morti  afai  ma  in  ogni  modo  fono  homeni  feroci  Frece  "venenate- 
et  ufano  le  frece  avenenate  con  fue  lancete  acute.    Trovafi  molti  Lancete- 


480  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

animali  come  ucelli  varii  da  li  noftri,  e  vefpertilioni  et  Tortore 
•vcncnoft.  grande :  et  in  el  far  della  fera  ditte  notole  ufivon  fuori  le  qual 
hanno  morder  venenofo  che  inducevono  rabia  di  che  li  fu  fortia 
fuger  di  la  come  fe  le  fufin  Arpie  :  Alcuni  che  in  terra  fu  e  liti 

Munflro  marl-  una  no&Q  uno  di  loro  fu  da  uno  monftre  marine  prefo  et  portato 
in  mar  in  confpe£to  di  compagni  et  lui  cridando  focorfo  non  lo 
poteno  aiutare.  In  ditte  terre  edificaro  Roche  e  aui  (j/V).  Regal 
et  non  contentono  ne  confentono  ma  poco  defiderono  tor  tal 
pefo  tamen  fuplicano  al  Re  che  li  mandino  a  tor  tal  provincie. 

Un  altra  Eu-  Quefti  fon  langi  trafti  et  gran  terre  et  abple  come  e  un  altra  Eu- 
ropa  fi  di  terra  firma  come  etiam  de  Infole  e  piu  tofto  la  fupera 
ecieto  che  quelle  che  a  megio  di  a  fcoperte  i  portagalefi  le  quale 
fon  grande.  Siche  e  di  noftri  ai  gran  laude  a  la  Hifpania  haver 

Antipodi.         trovato  quefti  lochi  incogniti  di  tante  miliona  de  Antipodi. 

Li  Infulani  hano  provato  che  il  noftro  pane  di  grano  e  di  piu 
nutrimento  del  loro  et  per  quefta  caufa  molti  fe  amalano  et  il  Re 

formento.  na  fato  cne  m  fatt[  }ochi  fi  femini  per  ditte  Infule  et  ditto  formento 
i  quale  nafe  con  le  fue  gambe  di  paia  grofe  et  piene  et  le  fpiche 

Herbe.  grande  frape  fentia  grano :     Et  cosi  le  herbe  grande  e  molle 

crefon  come  il  formento  ingrafa  i  beftiami  ma  fa  le  carne  fipide 
et  le  ofla  fentia  medola  opur  fe  le  fon  piene  fon  anguofe  :  et 
cosi  fono  i  porci  ma  falubri  et  fipidi  f'ingrafano  di  certi  fruti 
filveftri  che  mangiono  volentieri :  Molti  fono  fugiti  per  1'infula 
et  fati  felvatici  non  hano  animali  quadrupedi  fe  non  vi  fon 
portati.  Galine  et  altre  volatilli  ucelli  vi  fonoafai  et  grandi 
per  le  bone  herbe  che  con  quelle  fientia  altro  grauo  f'ingra- 

CVBA  Ifola.  fano.  La  Infula  CVBA  che  e  viuna  a  ditta  Spagnola  la  quale 
in  el  principio  per  la  fua  lungetia  ftimorono  fuffi  terra  con- 
tingente  et  hano  la  poi  trovata  efier  Infula :  di  che  non  e  da 
marayiare  fe  li  habitant!  quando  i  noftri  la  navicorono  dicevono 
efler  fentia  fine :  e  quefto  perche  tal  gente  e  nuda  et  non  fono 
infatiabili  et  ftano  contenti  dil  loco  dove  nafcono,  et  poco  curano 
di  quel  fano  lor  vicini :  et  non  vano  cercando  fe  foto  il  cielo  v'  e 
altra  habitatione  fe  non  di  quella  che  hanno  fi  contentono.  La 
ditta  Cuba  da  levante  a  ponente  e  piu  lunga  afai  della  Spagnola 
ma  da  Septentrione  a  megio  di  non  e  fi  larga  :  Et  e  terra  ferace 
et  molto  amena  ma  non  habonda  Oro.  Non  tropo  diftante 

°ro-  da  Oriente  dalla  Spagnoli  fi  trova  un  altra  Infula  grande  la  meta 

Ifola  S.  lo-vani.  manco  d'efla  che  li  Spagnola  e  chiamata  dai  noftri  S°.  IOVANI 
quafi  quadrata.  In  la  quale  fon  richie  minere  d'oro  :  ma  pero 
atendono  a  cavar  in  la  Spagnola  et  per  ancori  non  hano  pofto 
maeftri  a  cavar :  ma  tutavia  fi  comincia  aparechiare.  In  la 
Spagnola  fe  atende  con  ogni  folicitudine  a  cavar  Oro  et  hanno 
pofto  tal  ordine  :  Cioe  che  tuti  quelli  (cacichi)  Reguli  che  hanno 


Appendix.  48 1 

homini  afai  apti  a  far  tal  exertitio  hano  configato  che  prima  quelli 
popoli  a  uno  cierto  tempo  di  1'anno  vengono  ciafcuno  a  trovare 
quelli  fui  Reguli  et  qui  vengono  alle  minere  con  fui  Inftrumenti 
da  cavar  che  li  vien  loro  da  maeftri  confignati :  et  dal  fo  cacichio 
li  e  ftatuito  per  fua  merce  di  cavar  oltra  alle  fpefe  di  bocha  una 
certa  portione  :  Di  poi  che  hanno  lavorato  fi  partano  a  uno  certo 
tempo  quando    e    il  tempo  dil  feminar  che  per  vivere  bifognia 
vadino  a  foi  lochi  con  fui  ftrumenti  et  vano  nudi  et  in  quefto 
modo  atendono  a  1'agricultura  et  alle  minere  et  mal  volentieri 
foportano  tal  fatiche  :   Et  quando  coftoro  vano  ai  fuoi  Cacichi  o 
Regali  vano  come  fa  i  militi  ai  fuo'  Cenrurioni :  o  come  i  lavor- 
anti  dal  fuo  patrone  :   Et  fe  fono  sforciati  fpefo  fugono  alii  monti 
et  felve :   Et   fono  piu  content!  di  vivere  di   cofe  filveftre   che 
durare  tal  fatiche.     Hanno  lafato  in  tuto  e  lor  coftumi  et  reli- 
gioni  antique  :   Sono  boni  criftiani  et  piamente  predicano  de  efla  :  c>  ijliani  optimi . 
I  noftri  acuftumano  et  infeguano  a  li  fioli  di  quelli  Reguli  in 
caxa :   Et  cosi  facilmente  li  puti  imparano  la  lingua  noftra  et  cof 
tumi  :   Et  come  fon  grandi  li   mandano  a  cafa  loro  :   Sono  fati 
do&i  in  la  fede  criftiana  et  tra  loro  fi  amano  et  cosi  con  aliegre 
et  bone  perfuafion  li  conducano  alle  minere  a  lavorar.     Le  quale 
in  ditta  Infula  ne  fono  due  delle  qual  una  e  diftante  dalla  cita  c  Dominica. 
ditta   Dominica  meia   13  chiamata    Mina   di    S.    Chriftophoro.  Ma.  13,  Mina 
L'altra  la  qual  e  dita  CIABAVA  e  diftante  19  meia  del  PORTO  RE-     <*'£•  Chrifto- 
GAL  et  fono  2  gran  Regioni.     Dove  piu  volte  fi  trova  in  fuper-     t,ava'  Porto 
fitie  Oro  et  intro  i  faxi  mafe  over  lamine  alcuna  volta  minute  :      Regale,   ma. 
et  piu  volte  in  piu  luochi  di  gran  pefo  :  alcuni  fe  trova  di  trefento      I9>  Oro- 
pondi  mafe  alcune  magior.    Una  fu  trovata  di  3310  pondi  di  pefo  $00  pondi,  3310 

10  qual  mafa  fu  caricata  in  la  nave  di  Boadilla  patrone  per  con-     fondt- 
dur  al  Re  in  Spagna  et  per  efler  ditta  nave  carga  di  gente  et  oro 

fi  fumerfe  et  perdefi  1'oro  et  perfone  la  qual  mafa  d'oro  fu  vifta  x  pondo  *  -  1 
prima  da  molte  perfone.     La  quantita  dil  pefo  dil  pondo  fi  e  et      Cajligiiana 
pefa  3  ducati  d'oro  et  li  hifpani  chiamono  tal  pefo  uno  caftigliano     da  duca»  3- 
d'oro.     Tuto  1'oro  che  i  cava  dei  monti  CIBANI  et   del  porto  %***'?**"/ 

_..,  ,,  in/".  •  i  x  1-1      rorto  Regal. 

Regal  lo  portano  alia  ca.  della  Conceptione  dove  e  parechiate  le  c.  conceptione. 
oficine  e  li  lo  fondono.     Et  prima  dano  della   parte  quinta  a  -J-. 
ciafchedun  la  fua  portione  per  le  fo  fatiche :  Quel  oro  che  fi 
toglie  dal  Officina  di  S.  Chriftophano  lo  portano  alia  ca.  di  bona-  Mina  S.  CArif- 
ventura.     Siche  ogni  anno  tragano  da  ditte  2  officine  Trefento-  _  toPh™°- 

...  ,.     ,.    /~°  r        i  c         i      M  T    r  r   oona  Ventura. 

miha   pondi  di  Uro.  et  ie  alcun  con  rraude   1  ne  toglieiono  h  30o»».  pondi. 
che  e  non  lo  confegnafi  al  Regal  magiftrato  lo  caftigeriono  con 
le  lege  :  et  quando  interviene  coftione  tra  loro  fe  li  magiftrati  non 

11  adatano  :  Vanno  poi  tal  fententie  alle  Apellatione  al  palazo  di 
Senatori  la  qual  la  difinife.     In  quefta  eta  fono  fenatori  di  excel- 

61 


482  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

end  et  nobili  di  noto  fangue  i  quale  fentano  per  iudicar  come 

Primo  confediarii  in  tal  fenato.     La  prima  fedia  fi  v'e  eleto  Jos.  a  Silva 

comes    cifontes    Regius   magnus   Vexillifer    parente    dil    Re    di 

Spagna  el  quale  fi  e  uno  altro  Catone  di  grande  ingiegno  di  in- 

tegerima  vita  et  litterato  et  amator  di  Vertu.  e  il  principe   del 

fenato  che  a  Roma  fi  chiamo  lo  prefidente.     Li  altri  che  per  or- 

dine  fentano  che  primi  fecondo  1'ordine  d'il  tempo  fono  priori 

fentono.     Li  Do&ori  i  quale  fono  defignati  overo  ornadi  infig- 

niti   perche   in  lingua  Spagnola  li  defignati   chiamon  quelli  che 

<  dicon  licentiati :  che  de  jure  vengono  eleti  dal  Confulti  dil  Regno. 

i°,  2°.  Et  tra  i  prefidenti  Senta  Petro  di  Oropefa  Veterano  dapoi  queftto 

3°.  fenta  Lodovico  Zapata  :   Dipo  Fernando  Tellus  :  il  quarto  fenta 

4°>  S°-  Garfia  Moxica.     El  quinto  fenta  Lorencio  Caravaial:  dipoi  ftaTo- 

6°,  7°,  8°.        ribio  Santiago  dipoi  fente  Joanni  Lopez :  dipoi  Lodovico  Polanco : 

9°.  dipoi  Francefco  Varga  el  quale  e  ancori  Thefaurier  dil  Re.     Le 

ultime  ftatione  fono  ocupate  dai  facri  conftituiti  cioe  Sofa  et  Cabreo 

iuris  pontifici  periti  che   per  non  efler  Ifcito  in  caufa  criminali 

aiutar.     Siche  tuti  atendeno  a  miniftrar  Juftitia  fecondo  il  bif- 

ogno  di  chi  domanda  Rafone  :  et  quefto  bafta  per  hora  tornemo 

alle  Varie  fortunate  Non  Saturno  non  Hercole  non  alcuno  an- 

tiquo  che  habia  cercato  nove  terre  et  rido  al  Culto  Tuti  infieme 

hora  darano  loco  a  li  Hifpani  noftri.     O  Dio  quanto  ampliato 

vederano  queli  che  dapoi  noi  verano  ampliata  la  Religion  crifti- 

ana :   Et  a  ogniuno  per  1'avenir  li  fia  licito  andare  per  il  mondo 

vagando  ficuramente.     Et  non  e  poflibile  dire  quanto  per  Pav- 

enir  habia  a  efle  gran  cofe  da  penfar  a  ogni  fublime  ingegno. 

(Copia  delle  carte  numerate  29-46  *  del  codice  Magliabechiano  con- 
trajegnato  Clqffe  xm,  No.  8 1,  efeguita  da  FILIPPO  RICCI, 
Diftributore  Capo  della  Biblioteca  Nazionale,  efeguita  fecondo  Forto- 
grafia  del  codice  fteffb?) 


Appendix.  483 


THE  BOOKS  AND  MANUSCRIPTS  DESCRIBED  IN  THE 
FOREGOING  PAGES,  ARE,  AT  THE  PRESENT 

TIME  (MAY  4-TH,  1866),  IN  THE 

FOLLOWING  LIBRARIES,  VIZ.  I 

In  the  library  of  JAMES  LENOX,  Esq., 
No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  Tork : 

Nos.  2,  3,  4,  n,  15,  1 6,  1 8,  19,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26,. 
2?'>  28,  29,  31,  38,  39,  4o,  45,  46,  47,  48,  51,  55,  57, 
58,  60,  62,  63,  70,  80,  81,  83,  84,  86,  88,  90,  92,  94, 

97>  98>  99>  I00>  IOI>  I02>  I09>  IIO>  JI3>  IJ4>  IJ5> 
121,  122,  123,  124,  125%  126,  129,  133,  135,  137,  139, 

142,  145,  150,  152,  153,  154,  158,  1 60,  167,  168,  171, 
172,  173,  175,  176,  177,  187,  188,  190,  191,  193,  195, 

197,  198,  199,  200,  205,  2O6,  2O7,  215,  2l8,  221,  223, 
227,  230,  239,  242,  245,  247,  258,  260,  264,  272,  275, 
277,  278,  28l,  283,  286,  289,  290,  297,  298,  304, 

Also :  The  Mexican  books  on  pages  374,  375,  376 
and  377,  marked  "Private  Library,  New  York,"  the  Bay 
Psalm  Book  on  page  377,  the  Jesuits'  Relations  cited  in 
the  Introduction,  and  MSS.  mentioned  in  the  first  col 
umn  of  notes  on  page  213,  in  note  21,  and  on  page  320, 
and  the  manuscript  LAS  CASAS. 


In  the  library  of  JOHN  CARTER  BROWN,  Esq., 
Benefit  Street,  Providence,  Rhode  Island : 

Nos.  3',  4,  5,  6,   15,  19,  26,  31,  38,  39,  42,  45,  46, 
57>  58>  6o>  66>  86>  88>  88  ^'A  94>  97 >  99>  IO2> 


1  This  is  apparently  the  Roce  fespuccius  a  Two  copies,  one  with  the  portrait,  the 

sold  by  the  British  Museum  as  a  duplicate,  other  with  the  genuine  plan  of  Mexico, 

on  the  late  discovery  of  a  complete  copy  in  3  Two  copies, 

the  Grenville  collection.     The  remaining  *  Two  copies, 

leaves  have  been  added  in  fac-simile.  6  Two  copies,  one  of  which  on  vellum. 


484  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

105,  no,  115,  1 1 8,  1 20,  121,  122,  123,  125,  126,  129, 

i34>  i35>  J38»  J39>  !45>  T54,  1 60,  162,  167,  168,  171, 

172,  175,  176,  178,  187,  188,  190,  191,  200,  206,  207, 

215,  218,  233,  238,  244,  247,  251,  264,  266,  2676,  272, 

275>  277>  278>  297- 

Also  the  Molinas  on  page  375,  and  Lima  books  on 
page  376. 

In  the  library  of  SAMUEL  L.  M.  BARLOW,  Esq., 

No.  i  Madison  Avenue,  New  Tork  : 

Nos.  i,  4,  13,  14,  427,  51,  57,  58,  60,  63,  64,  74,  88, 
88  bis,  109,  112,  126,  127,  131,  142,  145,  150,  157, 
168,  171,  172,  176,  186,  188,  191,  197,  202,  218,  223, 
23'>  233>  M,  252,  253,  269,  279,  285,  287,  297,  298. 

Also  MOLINA'S  Vocabulario. 


In  the  library  of  Colonel  PETER  FORCE, 

Seventh  Street,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia : 

Nos.  11,  15,  39,   51,   56,  58,  60,  81,  125,  126,  133, 

139,  176,  187,  188,  207. 

Also    the  Biblioteca    of   BERISTAIN,   and   manuscript 
LAS    CASAS. 


In  the  library  of  J.  CARSON   BREVOORT,  Esq., 

Bedford  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  Tork  : 

Nos.  56,  57,  58,  60,  80,  88,  127,  137,  218,  223,  240. 


In  the  library  of  the  Honorable  HENRY  C.   MURPHY, 
Owl's  Head,  Fort  Hamilton,  New  Tork  : 

Nos.  45,  74,  88,  186,  240. 

*  Reprint  on  vellum.          T  Two  copies. 


Appendix.  485 

In  the  library  of  ALMON  W.  GRISWOLD,  Esq., 
No.  415  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York: 

Nos.  57,  no,  125,  176,  190,  200. 


In  the  library  of  Mr.  GEORGE  TICKNOR, 
Boston,  Massachusetts  : 

No.  10. 


In  the  library  of  CHARLES   DEANE,  Esq., 

Cambridge,  Massachusetts : 

No.  46. 

In  the  library  of  JAMES  LAWRENCE,  Esq., 
Boston,  Massachusetts : 

The  manuscripts  mentioned  in  the  second  column  of 
notes  on  page  213,  sequitur ;  and  in  the  first  column  of 
notes  on  page  320,  seq. 


In  the  library  of  BUCKINGHAM  SMITH,  Esq., 


Nos.  165  and  268. 


NO  TA  BENE :  Our  intention  was  to  add  to  the  present  work 
a  CARTOGRAPHIA  AMERICANA,  or  list  and  description  of  all  the 
maps,  whether  published  or  still  in  manuscript,  relating  to  the  New 
World,  and  drawn  before  1550.  We  likewise  intended  to  give  the 
passages  of  works  in  which  occur  mentions  of  charts  of  this  descrip 
tion  which  are  now  lost  or  mislaid.  The  notes  which  we  had  collected 
to  that  effect  were  so  numerous,  and  the  BIBLIOTHECA  AMERICANA 
VETUSTISSIMA  had  already  become  so  bulky,  that  we  were  compelled 
to  forego  our  intention.  As  this  is  our  first  and  last  attempt  in  the 
field  of  bibliography  and  cartography,  we  leave  it  to  those  of  our 
friends  who  take  an  interest  in  such  matters,  to  carry  out  a  project, 
which,  under  the  circumstances,  we  are  unable  to  perfect. 


a.  a. 


CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, 
May  qth,  1866. 


INDEX. 

9 


INDEX. 


A 


Ablijn  (Cornelius),  219,  296. 
Acevedo  (R.  Antunez  y),  xii. 
Acostd  (Joaquin),  xxxiv. 

"       (Josef  de),  204,  257,  319. 
Adam  (Melchior),  238^  271. 
Adam  (of  Bremen),  261. 
Adda  (Marquis  d'),  461. 
Adolphus,  118. 
Agia  (Miguel  de),  372  ». 
Agostini  (Giov.  dugli),  219. 
Agricola  (Georg.),  vi. 

"         junior  (Rudolphus),  147  /;. 

"         (Rudolph.),     128,    129;;.,    147, 

160,  161,  192,  277. 
Aguiar  (Rodrigo  de),  xv,  394. 
Aguilar  (Francisco  de),  322 n. 
Aguirre  (J.  Sanchez  de),  206. 
Agurto  (Fr.  P.  de),  375. 
Aittinger  (Wolfgang),  101. 
Alaman  (Lucas),  206,  219 «. 
Alantse  (Leonhard  and  Lucas),  138,  140, 

161. 

Alberino  (Nicholas  de),  320/1.,  436,  465. 
Albert!  (L.),  66,  450. 
Albertinis   (Francesco  de),  78,   104,   120, 

121,  140,  166,  177. 
Albo  (Francisco),  229. 
Albuquerque,  225. 
Alcedo  (Antonio  de),   xxiv,   58  ».,   61  »., 

123,  124,  249  «.,  316,  332,  447. 
Aldus,  49,  159,  293. 
Alegambe  (Philip),  xli. 
Alegre  (F.  J.),  210. 
Alexander  VI  (Pope),  I,  16,  18,  19,  20, 

«,  33.  34,  36>  44- 

Alhaja  (Martin),  382. 

Aliares  (Pedro),  98. 

Allegretti  (Allegretto  degli),  3. 

Allegrini  (P.),  67  n. 

Almagro  (Diego  de),  245,  318,  321  n. 


Almeida  (Ferdinand  de),  36. 
Almeida  (Francisco  de),  225,  283". 
Alonso  tiie  Black,  see  Nino. 
Alphonsus  (King), '408,  409. 
!  Alsop  (Richard?),  218. 
Alt  (Georgius),  42,  43. 
Alvarado  (Franc,  de),  376. 
Alvarado  (Pedro  de),  252.,  254. 
Alwoerden  (Henr.  ab),  344. 
Amandus  (Zierixceiiois),  308,  309  n. 
Amati  (Giacinto),  14. 
Ambrosio  da  Borsano  (Jo.),  332. 
Amoretti  (Carlo),  229,  250,  251,  349. 
Ampere  (A.  M.),  vii. 
Andre  (Valerius). 
vel : 

Andreas,  xxvi,  244. 

Desselius. 

Taxander. 

Angelo  (Jacob.),  107,  135,  253. 
Anghiera,  see  Martyr. 
Angiolelo  (J.  M.),  163. 
Angleria  (John  of),  177. 
Annali  de  la  Rep.  dl  Genoa,  157. 
Anonym.,    51,    75,    117,    172,    174,    176, 

179,  193. 

Anselmus,  166. 

vel : 

Polonia,  166. 

Antiquarius  (Jacobus),  155. 
Antonio  de  Lebrixa,  151,  152. 
Antonio  (Nic.),  xiii,  xli,   33,   35,  36,  45, 
123,   125,    126,    153,   168,   169,    177, 
282,  446,  452. 
Antunez,  see  Acevedo. 
Anunciacion  (Fr.  J.  de  la),  375. 
Anunciacion  (Fr.  Dominga  de  la),  375  n. 
Apianus  (Peter),  91,  237,  270,  271,  305. 

333>  36z>  379.  4°*»  4°7,  4*9>  44-3- 
•vel : 

Bienevitz. 

Apollonius  (Levinius),  319. 
Archinsus  (Philip),  454. 

62 


49° 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Arcos  (Christoval  de),  171. 

Argelati   (Phil.),  283. 

Arch'rv  (R/ieiniscAcr),  50. 

Ardoino  (A.),  383  «. 

Argcnsola  (B.  L.),  205,  225/7. 

Argenteus,  see  Silber. 

Argyrios,  see  Silber. 

Arias,  see  Davila. 

Aristotile   (Nicolo  d'),  266. 

Aristotle,  vii. 

Arnold  (Gottf.),  326. 

Arnold  (Richard),  199/7. 

Arriaga  (J.  de),  319. 

Arthemesius  (Frederic.),  236. 

Arthus  (Gothard),  xxvi. 

Ascensius,  see  Radius. 

Asher  (A.),  xxvi. 

Asher,  see  Catalogue. 

Asher  (G.  M.),  xxxiv,  xxxvi. 

Aspinwall  (Col.  Thomas),  xxx,  15. 

Athcnteum,  5  n. 

Atienza  (Lope  de),  322  n. 

Aubert  (Thomas),  132. 

Aucuparius  (Thomas),  201. 

Audiffredi  (J.  B.),  ix,  xlix,  9,  26,  27,  28, 

34,  3>  36,  43..4S,  48,  158,  244. 
Augustine  (Antonio),  453. 
Augustus  (Hieronymus  O.),  429. 
Avagour  (Du  Pare  d'),  xxxiv. 
Avendano  (D.  de),  168. 
Avila  (Caspar  de),  252. 


B 


Bachiler     y     Moiales    (Antonio),     xxxiv, 

xxxviii. 

Backer  (Alois  and  Augustin  de),  xli. 
Bacon  (Francis),  vii,  4. 
Bacon  (Roger),  xlvi. 
Badius  Ascensius  (Jodocus),  115,  126,  131, 

132. 

Baduarius  (Sebast.),  48,  49. 
Baena  (J.  A.),  xvi,  256,  322,  339. 
Baffin  (William),  x. 

Baillet  (Adr.),  xiii,  88,  161,  245,  263,  293. 
Balboa  (Miguel  Cavello),  319,  320/7. 
Balboa,  see  Nunez. 
Balbuena  (Bernardino  de),  212. 
Baldaya  (Alonzo  Gonzales),  107. 
Baldelli  Boni  (J.  B.),  64,  96,  99,  186,  469. 
Baligault  (Felix),  70. 
Balli  (Pedro),  372. 
Bandini  (Ang.  Ma.),  56,  57,  58,   59,  60, 

61,  62,  64,  66,  92,  276,  444. 


Barbadicus  (Augustinus),  52. 

Barben  (Jehan),  410. 

Barberini  (F.),  282. 

Barbosa  (Duarte),  229. 

Barcia    (Andres    Gonzales    de),    xvi,    66, 

218,  258,  318;;.,  383. 
Barcia-Pinelo,  see  Pinelo-Barcia. 
Barlaeus  (Caspar),  67  n. 
Barlow  (S.  L.  M.),  xxx,  484. 
Baronius  (Cses.),  226/1. 
Barreiros  (Caspar),  295. 

vel  s 

Varrerius. 

Barrionuevo  (Francisco  de),  321  n. 
Barro  (Johannes),  12,  26. 
Barros  (Jean  de),  3,  6,  61,  226  «.,  228,  295. 
Barthema,  see  Varthema. 
Bartlett  (John  Russell),  xxx,  xxxix. 
Bartolomei  (Jerome),  66. 
Bartolozzi  (Fr.),  57,  61,  64,  67,  453. 
Bascarini  (Nicolo),  430. 
Basler  Buchdruckcrgcschichte,  45. 
Bastidas  (Rodrigo  de),  168. 
Bauer  (J.  J.),  128,  351. 
Baumgarten  (Sigm.  Jac.),  388. 
Bautista,  229. 
Bautista  (Fr.  J.),  376. 
Bayle  (Pierre),  ix,  86,  156,  180,  326. 
Bayuera  (Constantio),  78. 
Beaufort  (L.  de),  263. 
Beaupre  (de  Nancy),  95,  96,  136,  341. 
Bebelius  (Joannes),  302. 
Becharia  (Antonio),  322. 
Becher  (Capt.),  5. 
Becket  (Thomas  a),  vi. 
Behaim   (Martin),  38,    39,  43,   60,   141, 
158,  226. 

•vel : 

Bohemus  (Martinus),  39. 
Belalcazar,  321  n. 
Bellefbrest  (F.  de),  405,  439. 
Bellono  (Antonio),  354. 
Belloro  (Tommaso),  67,  317  n. 
Bellouacensis  (D.  Joan),  334. 
Beltran  (Vintura),  321  n. 
Bembo  (P.),  2,  49,  104. 
Benaduci,  see  Boturini. 
Bendinelli  (Cardinal),  137. 
Benedetti,  49. 

•vel : 

Benedict  (Alexander),  48,  49. 
Beneventanus,  see  Marcus. 
Benevcnte  (Torribio),  see  Motolinia. 
Benham  (H.  S.),  346. 
Benito    (Alonso    Martin     de     Don),    see 

Martin. 
Benito,  see  Fernandez. 


Index. 


491 


Benvenuti,  see  Marcus. 

Benson  (G.),  344. 

Benzoni  (Girol.),  xvi,  4,   38,    258,   319, 

383. 

Berardi  (Juanoto),  57. 
Berckmann  (Arnold),  362. 
Berendt  (Dr.),  xl,  214. 
Bergmann  de  Olpe,  44. 
<vel : 

Bernardinus  de  Olpe,  17. 
Bergomas  (Jac.    Phil.),    14,    53,    54,    85, 
103,  132,  240,  334,  461. 
vel : 

Foresti,  86. 

Bergomensis,  see  Bergomas. 
Beristain  y  Souza  (Jose  Mariano),  xx,  212, 

278,  433.  447- 

Beristain  (Jose  Rafael  E.  T.;,  xxi. 
Bernaldez  (Andres),  2,  3,  6,  21. 
Bernard  (Desbarreaux),  see  Desbarreaux. 
Bernardus  (Hieronymus),  48. 
Bernuz  (P.),  317. 
Berra  (Orozco  y),  see  Orozco. 
Besicken  (Johannes),  9,  13,  34,  36,  43, 

78,  88. 
•vel : 

Besichen,  78. 
Betanzos  (Path.),  450. 
Betanzos  (Juan  de),  322. 
Berthelet  (Thomas),  437. 
Betuleius,  see  Birck. 
Bianchi,  3. 
Bibliophile  Beige,  73. 
Biblioteca  Pinel/ania,  185. 
Bibliotheca  Anonym.,   178. 

Barloiuiana,    102,    1 1 2,     115, 

117,  120,  121,  158,  193,  245. 
Bibliotheca  Brc-uoortiana,   no,   112,    142, 

158. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,    17,    1 8,    19,    21, 

*3.  45.  5°.  68,  73,  82,  84,  87,  95,  99, 

112,     115,     117,     126,     148,    153,     158, 

163,  169,  174,  177,  188. 
Bibliotheca  Buna-v.,  87,  1 12,  312. 

"          Columbiana,  444. 

"  Grenvilliana,  15,  17,  18,  19, 
35'  45-  49-  5°.  68»  69»  7°,  73.  8z>  84, 
87.  95>  99.  I05.  Iia>  JI5>  JI7>  II8 

120,     146,     147,     150,     153,     174,    187,   ! 
199. 

Bibliotheca  Hcberiana,  19,  33,  45,  48,  83,  \ 

85.  95»  99.  II2>  Ir5>  llTi  I2°.  I2*>.  j 
128,   137,   148,   150,   153,   163,    169. 
179,  184,  188. 
Bibliotheca  Aist.  Stru-vio-Budcr,  87. 

"  Hohendorfiana,  128. 

"          Mcnkeniana,  104. 


Bibliotheca  Sarraxxiana,  178. 

"  Spenceriana,  41. 

"          Sussexiana,  158. 

"  TAeresiana,  312. 

"  TAottiana,  45,  47,  87,  95,  102, 
115,  117,  121,  126,  128,  144,  193, 
263. 

Bibliotheca   J^ilenbroukiana,  124. 
Bibliotheque  curieuse,  see  Clement. 
Biddle  (R.),  60,  148,  291. 
Bielefeld  (J.  F.  V.),  38. 
Bienevitz  (Peter),  see  Apianus. 
Billy  (Abbe  de),  150. 
Bindonc  (Francesco  di  Alessandro),  335. 
Bindoni  (Augustino  di),  264. 

"        (Bernardo),  104. 
Biographic  Uni-vcrscllc,  88. 
Biondo  (Michaele  Angelo),  403,  421. 
Birclc  (Sixtus),  -v el  Betuleiua,  442. 
Birckman  (Arnoldus),  288,  305. 
Biretta  (Giovanni  Antonio),  46. 
Blount  (T.  P.),  88,  181. 
Blondus,  see  Biondo. 
Bocanegra  (Matias  de),  210. 
Boccacio,  219. 
Botchi  (Franc.),  66,  67. 
Bock  (F.  S.),  344. 
Boeder  (Jo.  Henr.),  351. 
Bohemus,  see  Behaim. 
Bohn,  see  Catalogue. 
Bollaert  (Roland),  243,  270. 
Bolduanus  (P.),  xiii,  xv. 
Bonaccursius  (Franciscus),  47. 
Bonneau  (Alexandre),  xxxv. 
Bononia  (Bern,  a),  166. 
Bontius  (Gregorius),  276,  305,  408,  429, 

443- 
vel : 

Bonte,   144. 
Boonc,  see  Catalogue. 
Bordone  (Benedict),  266,  268,   284,  310, 

3S5,  4". 

Borgia  (Alexander),  10,  295  see  also  Alex 
ander  VI. 

Borromeo  (Fred.),  7. 

"         (Joseph),  177,  280. 

Boss!  (L.),  3,  4,  5,  7,  8,  9,  15,  17,  80. 

Bottrigari,  153. 

Boturini  Benaduci  (L.),  208. 

Bouchard  (Alain),  148. 

Bourbourg  (B.  de),  see  Brasseur. 

Bovero  (Zach.),  166. 

Boysen,  344. 

Bragadeno  (Francesco),  78. 

Bramereav  (Jacques),  xxviii. 

Brasseur  de  Bourbourg  (Abbe),  209. 

Bravo  (Francisco),  435. 


49  2 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Brebeuf  (Path.),  xxviii. 
Brevoort   (J.  Carson),  484. 
Brito  (Antonio),  229. 
Brocar  (Juan  de),  359,  392. 
Brocard,  125,  188,  351. 
•vel : 

Brochard,  Brocardus. 
Brockhaus  (F.  A.),  xxxiii. 
Brosses,  see  Des  Brosses. 
Brown  (John  Carter),  xxx,  483. 

"       (Rawdon),  4. 
Brubachius  (Petrus),  347. 
Brucioli  (Antonio),  390. 

"         (Francesco),  390. 
Brunei  (Jacques-Charles),  see  Bibliotheca, 

passim. 

Brunet  (Gustave,  of  Bordeaux),  43,  370. 
Bruno  (Giordano),  vi. 

"      (Jacobus),  83. 
Buckinck  (Arnold),  no. 
Buenaventura  (S.  J.  E.),  375,  376. 
Bulletin  du  Bibliophile,  269. 
Burgmaier  (Hans),  loz. 
Burgoa  (F.  de),  211,  445. 

"        (Andreas  de),  420. 
Burrough  (Stephen),  60. 
Bury  (Richard  de),  i,  ix. 
Bustamente  (C.  M.),  209,  210,  211. 
Butsch,  see  Catalogue. 
Bynneman  (H.),  416. 
Bzovius  (Abraham),  226. 


Caballero(R.  D.),  33,   124. 

Cabot  (Sebastian),  59,  124,  148  238. 

Cabral  (Pedro  Alvarez),   6l,  97,  98,  108, 

136. 
Cabrera  (Melchor  de),  12,  211. 

"        (Christopher),  365. 
Ca  da  Mosto,  or  Cadamostus,  4,  75,  97, 

107,   112,   114,  131,  246. 

Caesar  (Martinus),  243. 

Calancha  (A.  di),  66. 

Calle  (Diaz  de  la),  171,  205,  210,  420. 

"     (Juan  Diez  de  la),  xv. 
Calphurnius  (Jo.),  334. 
Calvi  (Donato),  86. 
Calvin  (John),  344. 
Calvo  (Andrea),  221. 
Calvus  (Minitius),  231. 
Cam  (Diego),  107. 
Camanor,  98. 
Camerino  (John  de),  147. 


Gamers,  95. 

•vel : 

Camertus  (Joannes),  182,  191,  277. 
Camoens,  viii,  97. 
Campi  (P.  M.),  2. 
Campomanes  (P.  R.  de),  xii. 
Camus  (Armand  Gaston),  xxiii,  63,  70, 

114,  148,  163,  190,  296. 
Cancellieri  (F.  Jer.),  2,   19,  28,   31,   35, 
36,  44,  75,  76,  161,  181,  297,  333, 
444- 

Canisius  (Henr.),  166. 
Canizares  (Josef),  212. 
Cano  (Juan  Sebastian  Del),  228. 
Canovai  (Stanisl.),  57,  58,  59,  60,  61,  62, 

64,  67,  181,  333,  341,  444. 
Capmnani,  xlii. 
Caravaial  (Lorenciu),  482. 
Caravajal  (Bernardin  de),  10,  33,  280,283. 
Carvajal  (Francisco  de),  321. 
"        (Galindez  de),  282. 
Cardan  (Jer.),  vi. 
Cardella  (Lor.),  35. 
Cardenas  y  Cano  (pscudon.  pro  A.  G.   Bar 

cia),  66. 

Careri  (Gcmelli),  211. 
Carione  (Hieron.),   104. 
Carli  (G.  R.),  211. 

Carlo  da  Pavia  (Stephano  di),  150,  151. 
Carninis  (Berardus  or  Leonard  de),  see  Cor- 

baria. 

Carondelet  (Jehan  de),  244. 
Carpin  (Du  Plan  de),  xxiii. 
Carder  (Jacques),  415. 
Casas,  see  Las  Casas. 
Casoni  (Philip),  3,  190. 
Castanheda  (F.  Lopez),  xviii,  97. 
Castro  (Diego  Bermudez  de),  xx. 
"       (Pedro  de),  389. 
"       (Varez  de),  393. 
Catalogue,  Asher,  177. 

"          Aspiniuall,  239,  253. 

"          Bohn,  188. 

"          Boom,  1 8. 

"          Butsch,  xli,  78,  142,  234. 

"          Costabili,  29. 

"          Courtanvaux,  xli. 

"          Cretaine,  103,  131. 

"  Cre"venna,  423. 

"          Croioninshicld,  84. 

"          Floncel,  163. 

"          Franck,  xlix,  2,  77. 

"          Gallarini,  140. 

"          Hanrott,  172,  187. 

"          Hibbert,  xli,  68,  95,  99,   130, 
171,  242,  287. 

"          Kennett,  xv,  160.  409   437. 


Index. 


493 


Catalogue,  Kloss,  $zn.,  85,  87,  no,  112, 
115,  13277.,  133,  13677., 
1397;.,  160,  16677.,  2547;., 
29277.,  311. 

"          Labanoff,  no,  127,  345. 

"  La  fa/Here,  no,  148,  158,  163, 
249,  261. 

"         Libri,  17,  31,  48,  71,  72,  93. 

102,     128,     187,     219,     249, 
263,  438,  442. 
MacCarthy. 

"          Mondidier,  xli. 

"  Paelinck,  73. 

"  Potter,  242. 

"  Raetze!,  xxxiii,  74,  84,  112, 
259,  274. 

"          Reina,  232,  242. 

"          Riva,  130,  172. 

"          RotAc/in,  302. 

"          Solar,  234,  260. 

"          Sykes,  15,  99. 

"  Tross,  19,  137. 

"  Walckcnacr^  242,  419,  431. 

Cataneo  (J.  Maria),  137. 
Catesby  (Mark),  5. 
Cavacio  (Alfonso),  212. 
Cavellat  (Guillaume),  440  n. 
Cavo  (Andres),  205. 
Caxton  (William),  27. 
Cazal  (A.  de),  62,  65. 
Cellarius  (Christ.),  38. 
Cepeda  (F.  Antonio  de),  278  «. 

"       (Fernando  de),  211. 
Cerezo  (Maria),  57. 
Cervantes  Saavedra  (Miguel),  viii. 
Cervicornus  (Eucharius),  225. 
C.  (Francisco),  see  Sansovino. 
Champlain  (Samuel),  xiii,  xviii. 
Chanca  (Dr.),  46. 
Charles  V  (of  Spain),   12,  73,   152,   168, 

179,  187,  202,  273. 
Charles  VIII  (of  France),  9,  10,  49. 
Charlevoix   (P.   F.  X.   de),  xvii,    3,  58, 

5977.,  65,  132,  383. 
Charnay  (Desire),  211. 
Charton   (Edward),  220. 
Chaudon  et  Delandine,  48. 
Chauffepie  (J.  G.),  282/7.,  344. 
Chauveton  (Urb.),  38,  226  77.,  230,  258. 
Chaves  (Gabriel  de),  213  77. 
Cherubini  (Lae'rz),  273  77. 
Chevillier  (Andre),  II  ». 
Chiabrera  (Gabr.),  2. 
Chiericato  (Francesco),  248. 
Chimalpain  (J.  B.  de  S.  Anton  Munon), 

xix. 
Christian  Examiner,  158. 


Ciacconius  (Alph.),  35  n. 
Cie9a  de  Leon  (Pedro  de),  318. 
Cigala  (Baptista),  157". 
Ciglerus,  see  Ziegler. 
Cilio  (Junius),  54. 
Cinellius  (Americi),  66. 
Cini  (Mateo),  470. 
Cisneros  (Diego  de),  211. 
"        (Luis),  210  n. 
"        (Ximenes  de),  368. 
Cladera  (Christof.),  3,  39. 
Clavigero  (F.  X.),  xviii,  I'jon.,  208. 
Clemencin  (Diego  de),  259. 
Clement    (David),    41,    42,  43,   49,    86, 

87,  103,  104,  121,  140,  178,  182. 
Clement  VII  (Pope),  234,  249,  273,  286. 
Climaco  (Juan),  366. 
Cluver  (Phil.),  66. 
Cocleus  (Joannes),  142.. 
Cocus  (Simon),  308. 
Codice  diplomatico   Colombo- Americano,  i  n., 

21  n. 

Coelho  (Gonzales),  61. 
Coello,  see  Coelho. 

Cogolludo  (D.  Lopez  de),  xl,  170  n.,  205. 
Coignet  (Michel),  414. 
Coleccion  de  documentos  (1864),  57. 
Colines  (Simon  de),  125,  188,  247,  286, 

334- 

Collier  (J.  Payne),  1 ».,  464. 

Colmenares  (Roderick),  153. 

Colombo  (Luigi),  3. 

Colon  (D.  Cristobal),  407. 

Columbus  (Christopher),  xiii,  xlvi,  i,  2, 
3,  4,  5,  6,  8,  13,  16,  18,  19,  20,  22,  24, 
25,  29,  33,  ~38,  43,  46,  47,  5°,  52>  53, 
56,  57,58,  59,75,78,  79,  80,  87,88, 

98,   102,   108,   112,  114,  Il8,  121,    124, 
136,  137,  158,  256,  265,  28l,  284,  300, 

352,  388,  413,  427, 471,  474, 479. 
•vel : 

Colomb,  145. 

Colombo,  i,  2,  1 6,  1 8,  19,  20,  22, 

23,  27,   28,  30,  31. 
Colomo,  2. 
Colon,  2. 
Colonus,  2. 
Columbo,  78,  88. 
Colyns,  2. 
Dawber,  2,  112. 
"  Pedro"  Colon,  2,  24,  25. 
Columbus   (Bartholomew),   3,    4,   79,   97, 

186,  471,  474. 
Columbus  (Diego),  4,  56. 

"          (Fernando),   2,    3,  4  5,   24,  54, 
79,  158,  172,  194. 
Coma  (Guglielmo),  46. 


494 


Bibliotheca    Americana. 


Condestable  (Andres),  227. 

Constantin  (fseudon.  for  L.  A.  C.  Hesse), 

xlix. 

Conti  (Vincenzo  de'),   2. 
Copernick  (N.),  386. 
Coppenius  (/Egidius),  362. 
Coppo  Da  Isola  (Pietro),  264. 
Corbaria  (R.  L.  de),  8,  13. 
vel : 

de  Carninis. 
Cordova  (Francisco  Hernandez  de),  179. 

"         (Fr.  J.  de),  376. 

"        (Gonzalvo  de),  256. 

«         (P.  de),  399. 
Coronado  (Vasquez  de),  x. 
Correa  (Pedro),  4. 
Corsali  (Andrea),  150,  151. 
Cortambert  (Eugene),  314". 
Cortereal  (Caspar),  98. 
Cortes  (J.  Osorio),  212. 
Cortez   (Hernando),  124,   170,   179,  193, 

203,     207,     215,     219,     222,     223,     240, 
252,   254,  286,   287,441. 

Corumberger,  see  Cromberger. 
Corzutu  (V.  Palentino  de),  414. 
Cosa  (Juan  de  la),  xlii,  3,  58,  59  «. 
Cosco  (Aliander,  or  Leander  de),  I,  2,  7, 

8,  13,  16,  18,  19,  20,  22,  44. 
Costa  (Alvaro  da),  227. 
Costabili,  see  Catalogue. 
Costilla  (George),  254. 
Cotta  (Joannes),  105,  107. 
Cotton  (Henry),  373  n. 
Cousin  (Capt.),  173. 
Covilham  (Pedro  de),  107. 
Cramoisy  (Gabriel),  xxviii. 

"         (Sebastien),  xxviii. 
Cratandrum  (Andrew),  191. 
Crenius  (Th.),  326. 
Cretaine,  see  Catalogue. 
Critico,  98. 
Cromberger  (J.),  27,  167,  202,  224,  274, 

S38,    365.  37°,  372>   379>  397>   398» 
399,  402. 
•vel : 

Corumberger,  27,  122. 
Crumberger,  27. 
Kromberger,  27. 
Crowninshield,  see  Catalogue. 
Cullen  (Charles),  xix. 
Cumarraga  (Juan),  see  Zumarraga. 
Cunat  (Charles).  416. 
Curths  (Carl),  205. 
Gushing  (Caleb),  66  n. 
Custodi  (Baron  Pietro),  13,  25. 
Czvittinger  (David),  323,  432  n. 


D 


D'Abano  (Peter),  190  n. 

Da  Cintra  (Pietro),  -v el  Sinzia,  97,   107. 

Daelli  (G.),  80  n. 

D'Ailly  (Pierre),  xlv,  15. 

D'Alembert  (J.  Le  Rond),  vii. 

Dalrymple  (Alexander),  xxxiv,  xxxv. 

D'Anville  (J.  B.  Bourguignon),  351. 

Danza  (Paul),  307. 

Darling  (James),  xv. 

D'Artigny  (A.  G.),  344,  379- 

Da  Silva  (Gaetano),  60  n. 

"         (J.  F.),  xxxiv. 
Dad  (Giuliano),  2,  28,  29,    30,  43,   149, 

461. 

Daunou  (Pierre  Claude  Francois),  vii. 
D'Avezac  (M.  A.   P.),  60  ».,  96,  I3O«., 

176  ».,  185,  238,  341,  416,  469. 
David  (King),  156. 
Davila  (Gil  Gonzales),  209,  366,  367. 

"        (Pedrarias),  169,  227  ».,  245,  256, 

318. 

Dawber,  see  Columbus. 
Daye  (Stephen),  377. 
Deane  (Charles),  485. 
Debrett  (J.),  xxiii. 
De  Bry  (Brothers),  xii,  xv,  38,  63. 
De  Bure  (Guill.  Fr.),  146,  189. 
De  Castro  (Diego),  322  n. 

"  (Lope  Garcia),  322  n. 

De  Courcelles  (J.  B.  P.  Julien),  xxv. 
De   Franckenau   (G.    E.),    xiiin.,    2560., 

382??. 

De  la  Gasca,  320  n. 
De  la  Roquette  (Chardon),  1 68  n. 
De  Launoi  (J.),  xlvi. 
Delaware  (Lord),  xxxviii. 
De  Lewis  (Denys),  402. 
Delignamine  (Giov.  Filippo),  28. 
Delia  Rena,  see  Rena. 
Del  Rio  (Capt.  Antonio),  an. 
Demersey   (L.  Alfred),  xxxv. 
De  Mura,  -vel  Peter  of  Gand,  308,  309. 
Denis  (Ferdinand),  xi,  97  n.,  225  ".,251  «., 

260,  3i4«.,  412. 
Denis    (Michael),    34«.,   35".,  87,    161, 

162. 

Denys  (Jean),  174. 
De  Pauw  (Cornelius),  250,  256. 
De  Payva,  107. 
De  Paz  (M.),  320  n. 
De  Ponte  (Gotardo),  115. 
De  Rothelin  d'Orleans,  xxiv,  see  also  Cata 
logue. 


Index. 


495 


Desbarreaux-Bernard,  370. 

Desborowe  (John),  vel  Ian  van  Doesborch, 

198,  199. 

Des  Brosses  (Charles),  173,  251. 
Desponte  (Peirre),  71. 
Despuchi,  see  Vespuccius. 
Desselius,  see  Andre. 

De  Thou  (Jac.  Aug.),  67  n.,  l^^>n.,  271  n. 
De  Wind,  309  n. 
Diane  de  Poitiers,  114. 
Dias  (Bartholomew),  107. 
Diaz  (Bernal),  170,  205. 

"     (J^n),  170,  194. 
Dibdin  (T.  F.),  70,  349. 
Didot  (Amb.  Firmin),  189  «. 
Diest  (Gillio  de),  401. 
Diether  (Andre),  219,  442. 
Dionysius  Lybicus,  391. 
vel : 

Periegetes,  162. 
D'lvor,  15. 

Docampo  (Florian),  vel  do  Campo,  388. 
Donesmundi  (Ippolito),  2. 
Doppelmair,  38,  39  n.,  142,  305. 
D'Orbigny  (Alcide),  xxxv. 
Doricus  (Valerius),  454. 
Doringk  (Matthias),  41. 
Drake  (G.),  xli. 

Draudius  (Geo.),  xiii,  xv,  245,  313. 
Drummond,  344. 
Dryden  (John),  212. 
Du  Fresnoy  (Lenglet),  xvi,  xxiv,  87,  146, 

268,  457. 

Du  Halde  (J.  B.),  xvii. 
Du  Pare  d'Avagour,  see  Avagour. 
Du  Pre  (Galliot),  146,  147,  148. 
Du  Puys  (Remy),  72  n. 
Duran  (Diego),  204  «.,  21 30. 
Diirer  (Albert),  38. 
Durfort  (Count  de),  67. 


E 


Eandaui,  285. 

Eastman  (S.  C.),  xxxix. 

Ebeling  (C.  D.),  xxv. 

Ebert  (F.  A.),  21,  50,  88,  95,  99,  1 10,  112, 

114,  150,  153,  184,  193,  202,  439. 
Eccard  or  Eckhard  (J.  G.),  49. 
Echard,  see  Quetif  and  Echard. 
Eden  (Richard),  xvi,  2,  10,  24,  75,   125, 

126,  251,  299  n. 
Egenoissen  (Christian),  346. 
Egnatius     (Joan     Baptista),    vel    Egnazio 

Cipelli,  300. 


Eguia  (Michel  d'),  275,  279. 

Eguiara  y  Eguren  (Juan  Jose),  xix,  212, 

a?8,  373.  433- 
Elliot  (John),  397. 
Elliott  (Samuel  E.),  xxv. 
Elssius  (Phil.),  86. 
Emmanuel  (King),  57,  61,  99,  118,  150, 

197,  199. 

Encinas  (Diego  de),  394. 
Enciso  (Martin   Fernando   de),   27,    167, 

1 68,  274,  420. 
Engel  (Sam.),  87. 
Enrique  Pedro,  n. 
Enriquez  (Beatrix),  5. 

"         (Martin),  435,  466. 
Ens,  vel  Ensl  (Gaspard),  67. 
Erasmus  (Desider.),  158,  244,  263,  292. 
Ernesti  (J.  A.),  184. 
Escoiquiz  (J.  de),  212. 
Escoto,  see  Schott. 
Espinar  (Manuel  de)  321  «. 
Espinosa,  vel  de  Spinoza  (Antonio),  367  n., 

372- 

Espinosa  (J.  F.),  206. 
Espoleto  (Andreas  de),  390. 
Espuche,  see  Vespuccius. 
Essler,  1 08  n. 
Estancelin  (L.),  173. 
Estavanico,  383. 

Estrada  (Juan  de),  365,  368,  369. 
Estrella  (J.  C.  C.),  213. 
Eusebius  (Pamphil.),  130,  131. 
Eyries  (J.  B.),  93,  96. 


Faber  (John),  262,  264,  270,  306,  346. 
Fabian  (Robert),  147,  148. 
Fabre  (Jacques  Antoine),  249,  349. 
Fabricius  (J.  A.),  xlii,  41,  48,  49,  87,  88, 
104,    no,    128,  136,    158,    184,    193, 

202,  244,  283,  431. 

Fabrum  (J.),  361. 
Faleiro  (Francisco),  226. 

"        (Ruy),  226. 

Falkenstein  (Dr.   Karl),  303,  3731.,  434. 
Fallopius  (Gabriele),  256. 
Farfan  (Fr.  Ag.),  376. 
Farcy  (Charles),  211. 
Faria  y  Souza,  61,  97;  226  n. 
Faribault  (G.  B.),  xxv,  xxxiv,  xxxvi. 
Faucher,  vel  Ponce  Roffet,  415. 
Faugere  (Prosper),  iii  n. 
Faunstelter  (Georg.),  see  Tannstetter. 


496 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Ferdinand  and  Isabella,   5,  9,  II,  18,   19, 

33,  36,  124,  256. 
Ferdinand  (King),  vel  Fernandas,  I,  7,  1 6, 

17,  19,  20,  22,  43,  44,  57,  108,  118, 

136. 

Fernandez  (Alonzo),  209,  366,  445. 
«         (Benito),  375,  445. 
"         (Denys),  107. 
»         (Diego),  319. 
"          (Francisco),  328,  338,  414. 
Feria  (Fr.  Pedro  de),  375". 
Ferrer  (Jaime),  5,  406. 
Fesch  (Cardinal),  19. 
Festus  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 
Figaniere  (Jorge  Cesar  de),  284. 
Fine  (Orontius),  297,  298  n. 
Flaminius  (John  Anthony),  vel  Zarrabini 

de  Colignola,  350. 
Flavigny  (C.  F.  de),  218. 
Flechier  (Esprit),  282. 
Florio  (John),  41 6  n. 
Focard  (Jacques),  420. 
Foglietta  (Uberto),  190. 
Follini  (Abbate,  470. 
Fontaine  (Charles),  15. 
Fontanelli  read  and  see  Fontanini. 
Fontanini  (G.),  155,  1 8 6,  268,  390. 
Foppens  (J.  F.),  xli,  244,  270,  309. 
Force  (Peter),  xxx,  484. 
Formaleone  (Vincenzio),  65. 
Forster  (J.  R.),  251  n. 
Foscararius  (Aegid.),  454. 
Foscarini  (Marco),    60,   63,   75,    92,    99, 

115,  187. 

Fossi  (Ferdinand),  19,  27,  48. 
Fracanzio   da  Montalboddo   xxii,  xlv,  96, 

130  n.,  145,   162,  184,  185,  187,  189, 

463. 

Franck  (Sebastian),  299,  325,  380. 
Franco  (Fernandez),  453. 
Fran9ois  I  (King),  4».,  155,  189. 
Francis  of  Bologna,  307. 
"       of  Vittoria,  168. 
"       the  Monk,  243. 
Franklin  (Benjamin),  39  n. 
Frampton  (I.),  414. 
Frasch  (Christopher),  312. 
Freherus  (Paul),  88,  270  n.,  271. 
Freytag  (Frid.  Gotth.),  xxvi,  41,  43,   126, 

128,  183,  284,  351  ». 
Fridericus  III,  40  n. 
Fries  (Laurent),  246,  261,  272,  278. 
Frisius,  see  GemmrO 

"       (Laurent),  see  Phrysius. 
Fuerer,  38. 

Fulgosus  (Octavianus),  155. 
Fulvius  (Andreas),  104,  120. 


Funes  (D.  Greg.),  383. 
Furnius  (Jacab),  157. 


G 


Gaddius  (Jacopo),  66  n. 

Galiffe,  344. 

Gallardus  (Germanus),  356,  431. 

Gallo,  2  n.,  3. 

Galvano,  vel  Galvan,  477. 

Galvez  (J.  J.  G.),  208. 

Gama  (A.  Leon  y),  211. 

"       (Vasco  da),  64,  79.  97,  108,   124, 

282  n. 

Gambara,  3  n. 
Gante  (Pedro  de),  374. 
Gaona  (Fr.  J.  de),  376. 
Garces  (Julian),  168. 
Garcia  (Gregorio),  66».,  208,  209. 
Garimberto  (H.),  437. 
Gamier,  xlix  n. 
Gasco  (Andres),  339. 
Gassendi  (Peter),  142  n.,  387. 
Gastaldo  (J.),  430. 
Gaultier  (Pierre),  410. 
Gayangos  (Pascual  de),  329  ». 
Gaztelu  (Dominico  de),  328,  330,  332. 
Gebauer,  40  n. 
Gemma  Frisius,  270,  276,  305,  362,  400, 

401,  407,  425,  443. 
vel : 
Frisius. 
Phrisius. 
Reinier. 

Genebrier,  vel  Genebrard  (Gilbert),  66  n. 
Gentil  (F.  Bernardo),  340. 
Geraldini  (Alexan.),  2«.,  4. 
Gerson  (Joan.),  398. 

Gesner  (Conrad),  vii,  14,  41  n.,  87  n.,  144. 
Ghilini  (Hierome),  271. 
Ghillany(F.  W.),  39  n.,  60  «.,  118,  141  n., 

142,  184,  193. 
Giaccarelli  (Anselmo),  450. 
Giambullari  (P.  F.),  406. 
Gianorini,  7  n.,  8. 
Gibbs,  5  n, 

"        (J.),  226  n. 
Gibbon  (Edward),  344. 
Gilbert!  (Mat.),  374. 
Gilianez,   107. 

Ginguene  (P.  L.),  53".,  360. 
Giocundi,  55,  108. 
Giovio,  see  Jovius. 
Girardhengi  (Francesco),  46. 


Index. 


49" 


Giunti  (Thomas).  63. 

Giuntini  (Fr.).  59*.,  352. 

Giustiniani  (Agostino).  xliv.  2  n..  3.  5.  49. 

'54-  i55<  *56-  *57,  353- 
Giusriniani  (Andreolo).  ifyn. 
(Michael),  156  n. 
Glareanui  (Hen.  Loritus).  1 1 8.  254  »..  262, 

263.   264.   269.    285.   306.    346.   358. 

361.  396.  405. 
•oel: 

Loritc. 

Glover  (/?«>.  Jttse),  377. 
Godefroy  (Theodore),  355. 
Godoy  (Diego).  252.  254. 
Gees  (Damlano  de),  6 1  n. 
Gohory  (Jacques),  409,  411. 
Gomara  (F.  Lopez  dc).  xix.  56  »..  170  «.. 

204,  216.  225  B..  345.  383. 
Gomez  (Alvaro).  282. 

"        (Estevan).  227. 

Gongora  y  Siguenza  (F.  X.  C.),  208.  210. 
Gonzaga  (Fr.).  171. 
Gonzalez  (Ant.),  107. 
Gorricio  (Padre),  xlvi. 
Goujet  (Cl.  P.),  I56». 
Goupyl  (Jac.),  440?!. 
Gourmont  (Gilles  de).  65.  72. 
Graesse  (J.  G.  Th.).  7  a.,  fattim. 
Graevius  (J.  G.),  190*1. 
Granada  (Luis  de).  368. 
Granius  (Joannes),  400. 

•L      (Stephanus  M.),  396. 
Grapheus   (Joan.).   270.   276.    305.    342. 

35^416. 
Gravier  (M.),  341. 

Grer.ville  C'sdex,  5911..  60  n..  62.11..  150. 
Grenville  (Thomas)  xxvii.  62.  82.  293. 
Grijalva  (Juan  de),  169.  170,  171,  172, 

»79>  !94,  *<>9>  393- 
Grimaldi  (Giov.  Ant.).  12. 
Grimano  (Antonio).  194. 
Grimm  (Sigmund),  196. 
Griswold  (Almon  W.),  485. 
Grid  (Andrea).  240.  253. 
Groslier  (read  Grolier),  (J.),  no. 
Griiniger  (Joan.).  57  »..  60  «.,  6l  a..  62  ».. 

64»..  ico,  1 1 6.  117.  1 1 8,  119.  128"., 

144,  201,  246.  253.  261.  278. 
Grynaeus    (Simon).    2 »..    3.    59"..    6o«., 

61  »..  62  B..  63  B..   640..  99.  236.  291. 

298.  311.  357. 
Guamareto,  478. 
Guarionexio,  479. 
Guazzo  (Marc.),  104. 
Guicciardini  (Franc.),  34". 
Guiona  (J.).  3768. 
Gumiel  (Jacob).  26. 


Gurgense  (Matth.),  103. 
Gurierrez  (Felipe).  321  «. 
Guttenberg  (Joan.),  131. 
Guzman  (Nuno  de),  x. 


H 


Haeberlin,  -vel  Belani.  206. 

Hagen  (Von  der).  56  n. 

Hain  (L.),  17.  18,  19,  28  »..  33.  35,  41  »., 

50,  87)1.,  1241.,  1441. 
Halduyt  (Richard),  xii,  iri,4n.,   I25«., 

147.  148,  206.  276,  417. 
Hallam  (Henry),  281. 
Hamel  (Pascal  du),  409. 
Hanrott.  tee  Catalogue. 
Haro  (Christopher    de).  xlix,    173,    176. 

226. 

Haro  (Diego  de  Lopez).  382. 
Harris,  50,  336. 
Haven  (S.  F.),  377*. 
Haym  (Kiccola  F.).  1041..  163. 
Heger,  405,  439. 
Helisabet.  tee  Isabella. 
Heller  (Jai.),  41. 
Helps  (Arthur),  282. 
Henry  II  (King).  114. 
VII  (King),  4  n. 

"       VIII  (King),  156. 
Herbert,  199. 

Herborn  (F.  Nlcolao),  287,  295. 
Hernandez  (Francisco),  257. 

(Pero),  382. 

Herr  (Michael),  296.  311. 
Herrera  (Ant.  de).  xii.  xiv,  x\i.  21..  4, 

5.  24,  38*.,   560..  58,  59,  6511..  168, 

170 ».,  204.  317,  383.  396. 
Hervagius,  xv.  xvi,  236.  292.  357.  358. 
Hibbert,  tee  Catalogue. 
Hiltner  (Joan.).  143. 
Hoffmann  (S.  F.  W.),  136.  162.  178,  202, 

*53- 

Hojeda.  tee  Ojeda. 
Holbein  (Hans),  385. 
Holywood  (John),  tee  Sacro  Basco. 
Hondius  (Josse).  66 
Honter  (Joan.),  322,  419.  432. 
Horner  (Re-v.  Mr.),  rxiii,  49. 
Horriger  (Xic.),  125  »:,  188. 
Houssayes  (Cotton  des),  v  n. 
Hudson  (Hear.),  xxxrii. 
Hueber  (Wolfgang),  77. 
Huet  (Bf.),  292  «. 
Hutrich  vel  Huttichiu;  (Johan).  236.  292. 


64 


498 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


Hulsius  (Levinus),  xii,  xxvi,  38  n.,  230. 

Humboldt  (Alexander  von),  xi ».,  xlii, 
3n.,  5,  z6n.,  50,  s6».,  57,  59,  60,  61, 
62,  64,  67,  73,  75,  82,  85,  91,  92, 
95,  108,  no,  115,  117,  118,  121, 
130,  136,  HOW.,  168,  172,  173,  174, 
175,  180,  182,  186,  193,  202,  211, 

220,    227  B.,    258,    280,   282,   305,  432, 
469. 

Hupfuff  (Matthias),  83. 

Hutten  (Ulrich  von),  xlvii. 

Huttich  (John),  292,  298,  311,  357. 

Huxley  (Prof),  iiin. 

Huysman  (Rolef),  vd  Agricola  (Rudolph), 

I47». 

Hylacomylus,  57".,   58".,   59"-,  60,   6l, 
62,  65,  90,  91,  92,  94,  96,  108,  118, 
128. 
vel : 

Ilacomilus. 
Waldsee-miiller. 
Waltzemuller. 
Waltzmuller. 


I 


lanozki,  166  n. 

Icazbalceta  (Joaquin  Garcia),  xxi,  xli,  171, 
194,   207,   215,   217,   220,    365,    371, 

396»  434,  445- 
Ilacomilus,  see  Hylacomylus. 
Imperator  (Bartholomew),  391. 
Innocent  VIII  (Pt'pe),  45. 
Isabella  (Queen),  7,  9,  10,  II,  14,  24,  79. 
Isidorus  of  Seville,  107,  164. 
Isnardi  (Felice),  3  n. 
Ixtlilxochitl  (Fernando  d'Alva),  208. 


J 


Jacobus  (Joannes),  130,  163. 
Janot  (Denys),  269. 

"     (Jehan),  146,  147. 
Jeune  (Pert  le),  xxviii. 
Joanna  (S^ucen).t  280. 
Job,  163. 
Jocher  (Chr.  Gottl.),  xxvi,  177,  238,  244, 

292,  323  ».,  326,  399,  410,  429,  432. 
Johannes,  of  Burgos,  26. 
John  II  (King),  6,  36,  39,  45  ».,  61. 

"     of  Anjou,  261. 


Johnson  (Rev.  S.  R.),  345  ». 

Jomard  (E.  F.),  6o«.,  239  ». 

Jonson  (Ben),  219  n. 

Joseph,  the  Indian  -vel  Camanor,  98,  115. 

Jovius  (Paul),  53  n.,  88,   104,   137,  156, 

1 80,  248  «. 
•vel : 

Giovio. 
Julius   II  (Pope),   35,  98,  99,  106,    107, 

109,  113,  120. 
Junta  (Juan  de),  424. 
Juste  (Francoys),  324. 


K 


Kamermaister  (Sebast.),  37. 
Keckermann  (Bartholom.),  326. 
Kennett  (Bishop  White),  xv,    1 60,  409, 

437- 

Kerr  (Robert),  64 n. 
Kettel  (Samuel),  21  ». 
Kingsborough  (Lord),  61  n.,  206,  211. 
Kloguen  (K.  de),  97  n. 
Kloss,  see  Catalogue. 
Knoll  (Conrad),  96. 
Koberger  (Ant.),  37,  43. 

"         (Johannis),  253. 
K-oenig  (G.  M.),  429. 
Kromberger,  see  Cromberger. 
Kulb,  97  n. 
Kunstmann  (F.),  129,  144. 


L 


Labanoff,  tee  Catalogue. 
Labbe  (Ph.),  xvii. 
vel  t 

Labbeus. 

La  Croix  du  Maine,  148. 
Laetius  (Pomponius),  123,  280. 
Laet  (Jean  de),  xxxvii. 
Lafitau  (Joseph  Fran.),  61  n. 
Lafuente  y  Alcantara  (Miguel),  22. 
Laguna  (J.  B.  de),  375. 
Laire  (Fr.  Xav.),  35,  48,  244. 
Lalemant  (Hier.),  xxxviii. 
Lambert  (Jehan),  56.  65,  70. 
Lamoignon  (President  de),  282. 
La  Monnoye  (B.  de),  281. 
Lancetti  (Vincenzo),  405. 
Landessbergt  (Mart.),  85. 


Index. 


499 


Lansius  (Th.),  66. 

Lanuza  (Blasco  de),  204. 

La   Place  (Jean   de),    59«.,    60  n.t   61  »., 

62  ».,  119. 

La  Salle  (Ant.  de),  260. 
Lascaris  (Janus),  334. 
Las    Casas    (Earth,    de),    3,    21 ».,    25  »., 

58  «.,  168  n.,  204,  257,  274,  282. 
Las  Casas  (Vincent  de),  449. 
Lasco  (Joan,  a),  346. 
Laud  (Abp.),  131. 
Laudonniere  (Rene  de),  xviii. 
Lauredanus  (Leonardus),  vel  Lovedano.  86, 

133. 

Lawrence  (James),  485. 
Lebrixia  (Antonio  de),  see  Antonio. 
Ledesma  (Fr.  B.  a),  375. 
Leew  (Gerard  de),  xlvi. 
Leewis  (Denys),  see  Rikel  and  De  Lewis. 
Lelewel  (Joachim),  60  n.,  920.,  108,  109, 

no,  127,  128,  129,  136,  141  n.,  142  n., 

178,  202,  227  n.,  268,  271. 
Lelong  (I.),  157,  158. 
Lemandez  (Scftor),  xlvi. 
Leno  (Francisco  di),  355. 
Lenox  (James),  xxx,  xxxiv. 
Le  Noir  (Philippe),  189,  260. 
Leo  X  (Pope),  99,    124,   151,    152,    155. 

I 80,  248. 

Leon  (F.  Ruiz  de),  212. 
"     (Juan  de),  436,  465. 
"     (Juan  Rodriguez  de),  xv. 
"      Pinelo  (Antonio  de),  xiii,  xiv.  79/7., 

1247;.,    125  n.,    163  n.,  169,   259,   318, 

393.  394-  433'  44$. 

vel : 

Pinelo. 

Lerchern  von  Reidlingen  (Laux),  418. 
Lery  (J.  de),  66. 

Lescarbot  (Marc.),  xiii,  xviii,  xxxviii,  416. 
Liburnio  (Nicolo),  241. 
Lilio  (Zachary),  xlvi,  47,  461. 
Lilius  (Greg.),  134. 
Linschotten  (J.  H.),  xii. 
Lipsius  (Justus),  66  n. 
Lissona  (Albertini  de),  87,  462. 
Livy,  292. 

Llorente  (J.  Ant.),  67,  454. 
Lochner,  38. 
Lok  (M.),  126  ». 
Lomellino  (Laurent.),  354. 
Longhena  (Prof.),  25. 
Longolius  (Christ.),  334. 
Lopez  (Joan),  210,  483. 
Lorcher  (Jacob),  102. 
Lorenzana  (F.  Ant.  de),  170  n.,  210,  218. 
Loritz,  let  Glareanus. 


Los  Rios  (J.  D.  Amador  de),  2560.,  257, 

258. 

Louere  (Simon  de),  78,  80. 
Louise  de  Savoy,  249. 
Louveau  (Jean),  438. 
Lovedano,  see  Lauredanus. 
Lubranski  (Joan.),  128. 
Lucchesi  (D.  Fernando),  220. 
Lud  (Walter),  vel  Gualt.  Ludd,  91  n.,  95, 

99>  341- 

Ludewig  (Hermann  E.),  xxxviii. 
Lulli  (read  Raymond  Lully),  vi,  xiii. 
Luppi  de  Faro  (read  Diego  Lopez),  34. 
Luther  (Martin),  280,  292. 
Luque  (Hernando  de),  245. 

"      (Malo  de),  205. 
Lydius  (Balthazar),  295. 
Lyell  (Sir  Charles),  Hi  n. 


M 


Mabillon  (J.),  ix,  liii. 
1  Machado  Barbosa,  xlvi,  227,  284,  357. 

Machin  (Robert  O1),  107. 
;  Machinnech  (King),  476. 

Madrignano  (Archangelo),   56,    112,  114, 

115,  185. 
I  Maffei   of  Volterra.   4,    53,    61,   87,   88, 

122,   126,   147,  283,  403. 

•vel : 

Volateiranus. 
;  Magellan  (Fern,  de),  1 08,  109,  124,  174, 

176,  225,  316,  349. 
Magirus  (Tobias),  88. 
Magnus  (Albertus),  138,  139,  143. 
',  Maimonides,  156. 

Maittaire  (Mich.),  xiii,  12,  48,  54,   87  n., 
115  ».,  121,  131  «.,  147, 158,  1 66,  184, 
432. 
Major  (R.   H.),  5  «.,  II  «.,  15,  31,  46  n., 

80. 

j  Maldonada  (Antonio),  393. 
Malinche,  171. 
Malipiero  (Domenico),  80. 
:  Maneiro  (J.  A.),  xx,  212. 
!  Manzi  (Pietro),  205. 
Marchant  (Guyot),  8,  9,  20,  22,  23. 
vel : 

Mercator. 

Marches!  (Francesco),  12. 
Marcolini  (Francesco),  192. 
:  Marcus  Benevantanus  vel  Benvenuti,  108. 
i  Mariam  (Jo.),  405. 

"        (Petrus),  405. 
'  Mariana  Joh.),  35   «.,  66  n. 


500 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


Marineo  (Luc.),  2».,  204,  278,  284,  306, 

359.417- 

Marquetz  (des),  173. 
Marroquin  (Francesco),  375. 
Martin  (Andres  de  San),  229. 

'•        de  Don  Benito  (Alonso),  228. 

"        de  Valencia,  309  389,  390. 

"       (Felix),  xxviii. 

'•        (Friar),  289. 

"       (G.),  xxiii. 
Martinez  (Hen.),  204. 
Martinus  of  Amsterdam,  9,  78. 
Martyr  (Peter),  vel  d'Anghiera,  xliv,  2,  4, 

5,  14,  27*.,  35,  47,  53,  $6n.,  87,123, 

124,  125, 126.  151,  153, 179,  203,216, 

225  H.,  229,   279,   281,  286,  301,  313, 

348,  351,  442. 
Mather  (Richard),  377. 
Mattiolo  (Pietro  Andrea),  xlviii,  430. 
Maty  (P.  H.),  344. 
Maximilian   (Emperor),    73,    89,    92,    93, 

94>  95»  ^S.  !38>  *4i>  144- 

Maximilian  of  Transylvania,  224,  3 1  6,  349. 
Mazochius  (Jacobus),  120,  137,  140. 
Mazzuchelli  (G.  M.),  121,  123,  124,  188, 

268. 
Medicis  (Julian  de),  150,  151,  243  «.,  274. 

"        (Lorenzo  di  Pierfancesco),  55,  57, 

63,  64,  68,  69,  70,  71,  72,  73,  74,  76, 

82,  83,  84.  112. 
Medina  (Baltazar  de),  209,  367  «. 

"        Cell  (Duke  de),  2. 

"        (Pedro  de),  391,  413,  427. 
Mela,  see  Pomponius. 
Melancthon  (Peter),  292. 
Melendez  (Juan),  210. 
Mellini  (Domenico),  66. 
Melzi  (Gaet.  de'  Conti),  28  n. 
Mencke  (J.  B.),  xvi. 
Mendez  (Fr.),  I2«.,  33,  168  ». 
Mendieta  (Geron.),  209. 
Mendoza  (Antonio  de),  428,  433. 
"         de  Tendilla,  124,  152. 
"         (Quintanilla  y),  281  «. 
"         (Viceroy  Antonio),  367,  393. 
Mercator,  see  Marchant. 
Metellus  (Jo.  Matal.),  38. 
Meteren  (Emanuel  van),  xxxvii. 
Methina  (Joh.),  34. 
Meusel  (J.  G.),  xxii,   15,   36,41,45,49, 

50,  54,  58,  65  «.,  86  n.,  88n.,  112,  115, 

120,   iai,   122,   147,   166,    177.    178, 

259,  281,  292,  420  n. 
Mezzofanti  (Cardinal),  liii. 
Michael  (Petrus),  12. 
Michelant  (H.),  416. 
Millan  (A.),  317  n. 


Mirteus,  137. 

Moerl,  38. 

Molina  (Alonso  de),  xviii,  374,  375,  465, 

466. 

Molina  (Argote  de),  382. 
Molini  (Francis),  180. 
Molloy  (Charles),  3. 
Mommsen  (Joh.  Tycho),  4i6«. 
Monapius  (Jo.  Valdicus),  347. 
Mongitore  (A.),  360  n. 
Montaigne  (Michel  de),  458. 
Montenegro  (Alonzo  de),  319  n. 
Montesinos  (Fernando),   319,  320. 
Montfaucon  (Bern,  de),  27. 
Montisferrati  (Cominus  de  Tridino),  422. 
Montmayor  y  Cordova  (J.  F.),  395. 
Montucla  (J.  F.),  357. 
More  (Thomas),  156. 
Morelli  (Abbate),  2«.,  7  ».,  8,  27,  75,  76, 

79,  80,  126,  265. 

Moreri  (L.),  35».,  137,  256,  291,  326,  410. 
Morhart  (Ulr.),  299,  326. 
Mosheim  (L.),  202,  344. 
Motolinia,i><:/Torribio  Benevente,  xix,  208. 
Moxico  (Garcia),  482. 
Mulicho  (Joan.  Adel.),  116. 
•vel : 

Adolphus. 

Mulich. 

Muller  (F.),  xxxiii,  xxxvi. 
Mulligan   (Rev.  John),  xxxiv. 
Multivallis  (John),  131. 
Munoz  (J.  B.),  2,  4,  5,  6,   7,  14,  18,  24, 

56>  57,  65»  i7*>  J94,  282. 
Munster  (Sebast.),  57,  239,  363,  380,  384, 

404,  430,  438,  444. 
Murphy  (Hon.  Henry  C.),  xxx,  xxxvii. 
Murr  (C.  G.  von),  39,  43,  158,  226  n. 
Musetti  (Juan  Pedro),  381. 
Mutee9uma,  vel  Montezuma,  203,  222. 
Mylius  (J.  C.),  ix,  41. 


N 


Nadler  (Georgius),  101. 

Napione  (Gianfranc.),  2  «.,  3,  5,  67,  76, 
115,  121,  128,  150,  202,  313,  405. 

Narvaez  (Pamp.  de),  383. 

Natalis  de  Comitibus,  66. 

Navarrete  (Mart.  Fernandez  de),  xviii, 
2  n.,  3,  4.  5,  6,  ii,  I4«.,  15,  18,  21,  25, 
32,  46,  56  n.,  57,  58 ».,  64,  66,  74, 
79,  85,  90,  116,  163,  168,  170,  172, 
194,  227,  257. 


Index. 


501 


Nebel  (C.),  211. 

Negri  (G.),  28  n.,  58,  66«.,  121,  406. 

Newton  (5/r  Isaac),  357. 

Niceron  (Jean  Pierre),  54,  86,  87,  104 »., 

123,  180,  188,  282,  289,  451  n. 
Nicholas  de  Donis,  107.  108. 

"        (Thomas),  21.8  n. 
Nicolai  (N.  de),  412. 
Nicolini  (A.  de),  218. 

"        de  Sabio  (Jo.  Ant.),  333,  380. 
Niebuhr  (B.  G.),  263. 
Nieremberg  (J.  Eusebius),  208,  257. 
Nino  (Alonzo),  98,  112. 
•vel : 

Negro. 

Nizza  (Fr.  Marco  de),  319  n.,  383. 
Nodier  (Charles),  96  n.,  105,  185,  269. 
Nolle  (Anthony  and  Barth.  de),  40. 
•'  Nono,"  173. 
Noresianus  (Melchior),  288. 
Noronha  (Leonor  de),  440. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  6,    15,  17,  18,  19,  21, 

*3>  a7,  1-9,  33.  35.  45.  68.  69,  7°,  7*. 

73,  74,  80,  82,  84,  85,  no.  158,  177. 
Nouvion  (Victor  de),  xxxiv. 
Nucio  (Martin),  3i7». 
Nunez  (Alvarez),  see  Vaca. 

"       de  Balboa  (Vasco),  168,  245. 

"       (Pedro),  356. 


o 


Oberlin  (Jeretn.  Ja.),  341. 
O'Callaghan  (E.  B.),  xxvii. 
Ocampo  (Florian  de),  281  n. 
•vel : 

Docampo. 

Ocarriz  (J.  Flores  de),  xiii  n. 
Ocharte  (Melchior),  372. 

"       (Pedro),  372,  435,  447. 
Oeglin  (Erhard),  xlix«.,  101,  175. 
Ojeda  (Alonzo  de),  56  n.,  58,  59,  168.  318, 
Olave  (A.  de),  390. 
Olmedo  (Barthol.  de),  170,  171. 
Olpe,  see  Bergmann. 
Ona  (Pedro  de),  372  ».,  376. 
Onate  (A.  de),  376/2. 
Opilionem  (Petrus),  285,  290. 
Ore  (Geronimo  de),  376  n. 
Orellana  (F.  Pizarro  y),  205. 
Orio  (Hippolito),  156  n. 
Orlandi(P.  A.),  12,  308. 
Orosius  (Paulus),  164. 
Orozco  y  Berra  (Sen.  Man.),  2->6,  213. 


Orsuna  (F.  Bravo  de),  374. 
Ortelius  (Abraham),  6o».,  230,  239. 
Orthega  (Giovanni),  352. 
Ortiz  (Alonso),  26,  32. 

"     de  Zuniga,  5. 

Osorius  (Jerom.),  62  n.,  66  n.,  226  ». 
Ossiander  (Andreas),  387. 
Otmar  (Johannes),  65,  74,  175. 
Otto  (L.  G.  Count  de  Mosloy  ?),  39  n. 
Oudin  (Franc.),  41. 
Oviedo  (Goncalo  Fernandez   de),  xiv,    2. 

5,  27,  170,  204,  255,  257,   313,   319, 

337,  4°9>  4^5,  442- 


Pablos  (Juan),  210  ».,  366,  370,  372,426, 

428,  434. 

Pacini  de  Piscia  (Petrus),  47,  48. 
Padilla   (F.    Augustin    Davila),  xiv,   1 68 , 

209,  365,  369,  445. 
Padouano  (Giovanni),  103. 
Paelinck,  see  Catalogue. 
Pagan  (Matth.),  170. 
Palacio  (Garcio  de),  376. 
Palazzi,  -vel  Palatius  (J.),  35  n. 
Pallavicini  (Antonio),  462. 
Palmerius  (Matt.),  130,  131. 
Palmier  (Pierre),  378. 
Palomino  (Alfonso),  319". 
Pancaldo  de  Saona  (Leon),  229. 
Panizzi  (Mr.  A.),  82. 
Pannartz  (Arnold),  26. 
Panzer  (G.  W.),  xxxi,  passim. 
Paracelsus,  vi. 
Paradisic  (Paolo),  156. 
Paredes  (Julian  de),  395  n. 

Parvus  (Johannes),  115,  126. 
i 

•v  el :  . 

Petit  (Jean),  148.  298. 

Pascal  (Blaise),  iii. 

Pasini  (Mapheo),  335. 

Pasquaglio  (Pietro),  98. 

Patin  (Charles),  282. 

Paul  III  (Pope),  1 68  n. 

Paulus  (Jo.),  433. 
"       (Nic.  J.),  154. 

Pauthier  (M.  G.),  107  ;;. 

Payva,  see  De  Payva. 

Paz  (Augustin  de),  38  i . 

Peck  (J.  M.),  xxxix. 

Pederzani  (Baptista),  241.  242,  430. 
;  Pedrarias,  see  Davila. 
:  Pedro  (Enrique).  1 1  n. 


Bibiiotheca  Americana. 


Pegnizer  (Johannes),  32. 

Peignot  (Gabriel),  xxiv,  I$on. 

Peirce,  (William),  377. 

Pellicer  y  Saforcada  (J.  A.),  368  n. 

Pentius  (Jacobus),  127. 

Perault  (Path.),  xxviiin. 

Pereira  (Juan  de  Solo^ano),  xv,  205,  395. 

Perez  (Barthol.),  327. 

Petrarch  (Franciscus),  27  ».,  219  n. 

Petreius  (Joh.),  386. 

Petri  (Suffride),   271. 

Petrus  (Henricus),   295,   300,    322,    364, 

385,  404,  438,  444. 
Petzholdt  (Dr.  Julius),  x,  xxxv. 
Peypus  (Frederick),  179,  234. 
Philip  I  (King),  58. 

"      II  (King),  12,  73. 
Philipono  (Honorio),  384. 
Phrisius  (Laurent),  200,  201. 
Picardo  (Juan),  381. 
Piccolomini  (Alessandro),  440  «.,  524. 
Piedra-Hita  (L.  Fernand.  de),  66  n. 
Pigafetta  (Francisco  Antonio),  226  n.,  229, 

247,248,249,  316,  349,  456. 
Pighius  (Albertus),  66».,  180,   181,   391, 

4°7'. 

Pilinski,  77. 

Pimentel  (Francisco),  213,  448. 
Pinelo,  see  Leon. 
Pinkerton  (John),  251,  420  n. 
Pintho  (G.  Lopez  de),  58. 
Pinzon  (Vincent-Yanez),    57,    58  «.,  60, 

75,98,  114,  173,  175,  293. 
Pirckeymero   (Bibibald.),  253,    342,  363, 

378. 

Piron  (Alexis),  212. 
Pisani  (Domenico),  80. 
Pizarro  (Francisco),  67  n.,  245,  317,  323, 

.3H,  3*9,  33'- 
Pizarro  (Gonzales),  436,  442. 

"       (Hernando),  329. 

"      (Pedro),  319. 

"      y  Orellana,  317. 
Plannck  (Stephanus),  8,  9,  13,  34. 
Plato,  156. 

Pleydenwurff(Wilhelm),  37,  38. 
Pliny,  107,  126. 
Poccianti  (M.),  28  ».,  64  n. 
Polanco  (Lodovico),  483. 
Poleur  (Jean),  340. 
Pollero,  3  n. 
Polo  (Marco),  xlvi,  107,  126  ».,  185,  186, 

192,  305. 

Polonus  (Stanislaus),  12,  26. 
Pomponius  Mela,  147,  159,  160,  161,  183, 

190,  277. 
Pontanus  (J.  Jov.),  409  n. 


Ponte  (Gotardo  da),  328,  331  n.,  332. 

"      see  De  Ponte. 
Popelliniere  (L.  V.  de  la),  226. 
Porrus  (Petrus  Paulus),  154,  155. 
Porta  (Hugo  a),  378. 
Posa  (Petrus),  12. 
Postel  (Guillaume)  12. 
Praet,  see  Van  Praet. 
Pre,  see  Du  Pre. 
Prescott  (W.   H.),   24  n.,   170    172,   194, 

206,  219,  220,  257,  259  ».,  282,  317. 
Pronotariis  (Andrea  de),  368. 
Ptolemaeus,  78,  92,  105,  116,   119,   126, 

127,    128,    133,   135,    163,   164,   184, 

192,  253,  285,  363,  378,  384,  430. 
vel : 

Ptolemy,  46,  59".,  107,  1 08,  109, 

1 20,  342. 

Puccius  (P.  A.),  350. 
Puente  (Gonzales  de  la),  209. 
Puga  (Vasco  de),  211  ».,  375,  393. 
Pulgar  (Ferdinand),  281  n. 
Purchas  (Samuel), 4«.,  206,  258,  329,  383. 
Puys,  see  Du  Puys. 
Pynson  (Richard),  148. 


e 


Quadrio  (Fran.  Saverio),  31. 

Quaritch  (B.),  xxiv. 

Querard  (J.  M.),  xxxii. 

Quetif  and  Echard,  xvii,  xli,  155,  447. 

Quincy  (Jos.),  xxv. 


R 


Raetzel,  see  Catalogue. 

Rafn  (Christ.),  261. 

Raguenau  (Path.  Paul),  xxviii. 

Raidel  (G.  M.),  no,  128,  136,  202,  345, 

431- 

Raleigh  (Sir  Walter),  125  ». 
Rame  (Alfred),  416  ». 
Ramirez  (Geronimo),  204. 
Ramusio  (Giov.  Bat.),  xv,  xlv,  4/1.,  56/1., 

6o».,  63,   171,   174,  206,  218,  22677., 

*5°>  *58»  3!9,  349.  383>  4*6,  455- 
Ranke  (L.),  56  ». 
Rastall,  vel  Rastell  (William),  148. 


Index. 


5°3 


Rayon  (J.  L.),  206. 

Rea  (Alonso  de  la),  209. 

Redouer  (Mathurin  du),  56  n.,  63  ».,  145, 

146,  148,  269. 
Reichardt  (C.  F.),  xxxv. 
Reid  (Mr.),  xxiii. 
Reina  of  Milan,  see  Catalogue. 
Reisch  (Gregory),  xlviii,  143,  144,  341. 
Remesal  (Antonio  de),  xl,  204,  375,  396. 
Rena  (Cosimo  della),  66. 
Renault  (Jacques),  xxviii. 
Rene  (King),  3,  100,  io8». 
Renouard  (A.  A.),  131  ».,  268. 
Resende  (And.  Falcam  de),  284. 
"        (Angelo  Andr.),  283,  284. 
"•       (Garcia  de),  6,  284,  411,  412. 
Reschius  (Conrad),  341. 
Reuss  (J.  D.),  xlix. 
Revelles  (John  de),  232,  233  n. 
Rey  (Firmin  del),  212. 
Reyes  (Fr.  A.  de  los),  376,  449. 
Rezabal  y  Ugarte  (J.  de),  388. 
Ribas  (A.  Perez  de),  210. 
Ribero  (Diego),  227  n. 
Ricardo  (Antonio),   372. 
Ricci  Filippo,  483. 

"     (Giuliano),  56. 
Riccioli  (Jo.-Bapt.),  38. 
Rich  (Obadirh),  xix,  passim. 

"     (George),  xxx. 
Richard  (Joannes),  400. 
Richarderie  (G.  Boucher  de  la),  xxiv. 
Richelius  (V.),  351. 
Rigaud  (Benoist),  15. 
Rikel  (Dion),  402,  403. 
Rilliet  (Albert  ?),  344. 
Rincon  (A.  del),  376. 
Ring  (F.  D.),  206. 
Ringmannus,  vel  Philesius  (Matthias),  83, 

96,  128. 

Ritheymerus  (Georg.),   522. 
Riva,  see  Catalogue. 
Rive  (Abbe),  v. 
Rizo  (de  Novara  Berno.),  104. 

"      (Juan  Pablo  Martir),  125. 
Robles  (Pedro  de),  427. 
Robert,  vel   Robertas    Monachus,    1 1  «., 

xxii.,  14,  300. 

Robertson  (W.),  xviii,  3,  65,  168,  206. 
Robledo  (Jorge),  321  n. 
Rocha  Pitta  (Sebast.  de),  66  ». 
Roce  (Denis),  71. 
Roche  (Michael  de  la).  344. 
Rodriguez  (J.),  xvii. 
Roman  (A.  de  San),  225  n. 
Romero  (Jose  Guadalupe),  xli. 
Romeu  (Garcia),  382. 


Romey  (C.),  344. 

Ronchini  (Amadio),  47. 

Roquette,  see  De  la  Roquette. 

Roselly  de  Lorgues,  vel  de  Valblette  ?  5, 

no. 

Rosny  (Lucien  de),  15,  21  n. 
Rothelin  d'Orleans,  see  Catalogue. 
Roulin  (F.  D.  ?),  85. 
Roure  (P.),  212. 
Rousseau  (J.  J.),  219  n. 
Roux  de  Rochelle,  212. 
Rubalcava  (J.  Gutierrez  de),  xii. 
Ruchamer  (Jobst),  xxii,  2,   56,   63,  in, 

112. 

Ruffus  (Joannes),  151,  152. 
Rufus,  (Festus),  162. 
Rumohr  (C.  F.  von),  385. 
Rusconi  (Joanne  Antonio),  240. 

"        (Joanne  Francischo),  240. 

"         (Zorzi  de),  159,  463. 
Rusconibus  (Georgius  de),  85,  133. 
Ruysch  (Jean),  108,  109,  no. 


Sabellico  (M.  Ant.),  14,  52,  53,  87,  115, 

*32>  159>44°- 
veil 

(Coccio  Sabellicus),  333,  358. 
Sabio  (Cornelius  de),  405. 
"     (Nicolinis  de),  242,  405. 
"     (Stephano  da),  328,  331. 
Sacro  Bosco  (Giovanni),  352. 
vel : 

Holywood  (John). 
Sagard-Theodat  (Gab.),  xviii. 
Sagra  (Ramon  de  la),  60  n. 
Saint  Gelais  (Jean  de),  355. 
Saisset  (Emile),  344. 
Sahagun  (Bernardino  de),  xix,  204,  208, 

383. 

Saita  (Francis  de  la),  98. 
Salazar  (F.  Cervantes),  211,  374,  435. 
Salengre  (Albert  Henry),  86. 
Salig  (Christ.  Aug.),  41. 
Salinero  (Jul.),  2,  3. 
Salvini  (Ant.  Mar.),  66. 
Sanchez  (Pedro),   320  «. 

"        (Raphael,  vel  Gabriel),   i,  6,   7, 
n,  1 6,  18,  19,  20,  22,  24,  25,  44. 
vel : 

Sanchis. 
Sanxis. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Sandius  (Christopher),  344. 

Sands  (Robert),  218. 

Sansovino  (Francisco),  104. 

Santander  (Ch.  A.  de  la  Serna),   12,  71, 

78,  402. 

Santangel  (Luis  de),  6,  24,  25. 
Santarem    (Manoel-Franc.    de),     66,    67, 

108,  no,  136,  141,  303,  305,  431. 
Santdner  (F.  E.),  205. 
Santiago  (Toribio),  482. 
Santoyo  (Martel),  321  n. 
Sapido  (Sulpicio),  276. 
Saravia  (Bravo  de),  319". 
Sarawolski  (Sim.),  323,  432. 
Sardela  (Juan  Bautista),  321  n. 
Sarmiento  (Juan),  322  n. 
Savigny  (Christolfe  de),  vii. 
Savorganus  (Peter),  219,  233,  236,  241, 

289,  441. 

Saxius  (Christophorus),  54,  66,  88,  244. 
Scaliger  (Julius  Caesar),  268. 
Schade,  344. 

Schedel  (Hartmann),  37,  42. 
Scheffer  (Johan.),  290/1. 
Schelhorn  (J.  G.),  41,  381. 
Scherzer  (Carl),  xxxv. 
Schiffahrt  (Ander),  xxvii. 
Schlozer  (A.  L.  von),  283. 
Schmidel  (Ulrich),  xxvii,  383. 
Schmidius,  vel  Schmid  (Thomas),  41. 
Schoner  (John),   65,  140,  142,  143,  182, 

304,  305,  387,  425. 
Schoolcraft  (H.  R.),  xl. 
Schott  (Andrew),   14,453. 
•vtl : 

Escoto. 

Schott  (Joannes),  135. 
Schreyer  (Sebaldus),  37. 
Schurer  (Matt.),  139. 
Schwartz  (C.  G.),  38. 
Schwindel  (G.  J.),  330. 
Scinzenzeler  (Joan.  Ang.),  105,  163,  171. 
Scotus  (Joannes),  178. 
Seckendorff  (Vit.  Lud.),  326. 
Seelen  (Jo.  Henr.  von),  344. 
Senarega  (Earth.),  2,  3,  12. 
Senior,  see  Alt. 
Sepulveda  (J.  Gines  de),   168,   204,  274, 

45'- 

Serna  (La),  see  Santander. 
Sertenas  (Vincent),  410. 
Servetus  (Michael),  59,  65,  67,  202,  342, 
378. 
•vtl : 

Villanova. 

Sessa  (Melchior),  333,  380,  405. 
Seyler  (Jean),  141. 


Seyssel  (Claude  de),  355  n. 
Sfortia  (Ludov.  Maria),  45. 
Sforza  (Ascanio),  123,  280. 
Shakespeare,  viii  n. 
Shouten  (W.  C.),  x,  xii. 
Sigmond  (G.),  344. 
Silber  (Euch.),  7,  8,  14,  18,  26.  34. 
vtl : 

Argenteus. 

Argyrios. 
Silva,  see  Da  Silva  (Gaetano). 

"      (Jos.  A.),  482. 
Simon  (Fr.  Pedro),  65. 
Singrenius  (Hierony.  &  Joan.),  138. 
Sinzia,  set  Cintra. 
Smith  (Buckingham),  383,  485. 
Soderini  (Pietro),  56. 
Solinus  (Julius),  91,  107,  159,  181. 
Solis  (Antonio  de),  170,  173,  175,  205. 

"    (Juan  Diaz  de),  227/1. 
Solorzano  Pereira  (Johannes  de),  65. 
Soltwedel  (Alexander),  205. 
Soprani  (R.),  156. 
Sora  (Gabriel  de),  xv. 
Soria  (Lope  de),  328. 
Soto  Mayor,  see  Villagutiere. 
Sousa  (Martin  Alfonso  de),  356. 
Southey  (Robert),  61. 
Southwell  (Nathaniel),  xli. 
Souza  (Faria  y),  225  ».,  227  ». 

"      (J.  M.  Beristain  y),  see  Beristain. 
Spencer  (Herbert),  i. 
Spicigelium  -veter.  secul  xv,  i  68 . 
Spinoza  (de),  see  Espinosa. 
Sponde  (Henr.  de),   326. 
Spotorno  (J.  B.),  2,  3,  4,  5. 
Sprengel  (Mat.  Chr.),  97. 
Squiers  (E.  G.),  xl. 
Stamler  (John),  101,  102,  103. 
Steelsius  (Joannes),  351,  425. 
Steinhowell  (Henrich?),  3416. 
Stobnicza  (John  de),  128,  164,  165,  166, 

323  n.,  463. 

Stockier  (F.  de  Borgia-Ga^ao),   357. 
Stoecklein  (Jos.),  xli. 
Stoeffler  (John),  353". 
Stow  (John),  148  n. 
Strabo,  107. 

Strozzi  (Zuane  de),  474, 
Struvius  (Burc.  Gotth.),  344,  405. 
Stuchssen  (Joan),  141,  143. 
Stiichszen  (George),  in. 
Stuvenius  (J.  F.),  38,  65. 
Suarez  (Fernan.),  436. 
Sussex  (Duke  of),  35. 
Swertius  (Franc.),  310. 
Sweynheim  (Conrad),  26,  no. 


Index. 


5°5 


Sykes  (Sir  Mark),  see  Catalogue. 
Syllacio  (Nich.),  2  ».,  45,  46. 
vtl  : 

Scillacio. 
Syllacius. 

Syllacio  (N.   Y.  reprint),    17,    1 8,  19,  21, 
'  *3>  29,  31,  47,  50,  53,  80. 
Sylva  (Innocentio  da),  284,  412. 
Sylvanus  (Bernard.),  126,  127. 
Sylvius  (Aeneas),  xlv,  40,  41,  164. 
•vel : 

Pius  II  (Pope). 


T 


Tacitus  (Cornelius),  2,  53. 
Taillandier  (A.  H.),   23. 
Tamayro  (Thomas),  xv. 
Tapia  (Andres  de),   204. 
Tardif  (Guillaume),  146. 
Tassio  (Abra.),  221. 
Taunstetter  (Georges),  138,  140. 
•vel : 

Taunstelter,  139. 
Taxander,  see  Andre. 
Taylor  (A.  S.),  xxxix. 
Techo  (N.  del),  383. 
Teissier  (Antoine),  123,  238,  312,  357. 
Tellez  (Melchior),  435. 
Tellus  (Fernando),  482. 
Temporal  (Jean),  61,  63. 
Tendilla  (Count),  280. 

"         see  Mendoza  de  Tendilla. 
Teresa  (Dona),   382. 

Ternaux  (Henri),  -vel.  Ternaux-Campans, 
xxxii,   15,   18,   19,  21,45,74,84,   85, 

95>  99»  I05.  II2>  11S>  II7>  i*5>  I26> 
148,    150,   153,  163,   169,    172,  173, 

174,     187,     l88,     206,     210,    212,    316, 

383»  4i7- 

Tezozomoc  (Alvarado),  208. 
Thierry  (Augustin),  vi. 
Thomas,  32. 

"       (Isaiah),  373. 

"      (W.),  4°9  "••>  437- 
Thomassy  (Raymond),  88,  109,  249. 
Thorndike,  xxv. 
Thou,  see  De  Thou. 
Thurmann  (Caspar),  v. 
Ticknor  (George),  xvi,  32,  257,  259,  329, 

340,  368,  388,  485. 
Tiraboschi  (Girolamo),   5,  29,  53,  59,  60, 

65,  88>  99»  IJ5i   J56>  l86>  25°>  268> 
360  n. 


Toresano  (M.  Frederico),  423. 
Torfi,  vtl  Torfaeus  (Thormod.),  261. 
Torquemada  (Juan  de),  xi,  204,  383. 
Torre-Palmo  (Count  de),  339. 
Torres  (F.  Caro  de),  205. 
Toscanelli  (Paolo),  4. 
Totzen  (E.),  65. 
•vel : 

Toze  and  Tosinus,  109,  no. 
Tournes  (Jean  de),  421. 
Trechsel  (Melchior),  343. 

"         (Caspar),  343,  378. 
Trepperel  (Jehan),  145,  146. 

"         (Widow],  146,  147. 
Trigautius  (Nicolaus),  xxviii. 
Tristan  (Nuno),  107. 
Trithemus  (Joannes),  41,  86,  347. 
Trivigiano  (Angelo),  2,  75,  80. 
Trombelli  (J.  C.),  xlvii. 
Tromel  (Paul),  xiii,  xxxiii,  95,  262,  270, 

303,  310. 

Tronus  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 
Triibner  (Nicolas),  xl. 
Trucchi  (Francesco),  67  n. 
Trueba  (Telesforo  de),  205. 
Turner  (Sharon),  2. 

"      (W.  W.),  xl,  214. 


U 


Ubelin,  108  n.,  133,  178. 

Ughelli    (Ferdinando),    8  ».,    28  n.,    155, 

210,438. 

Ulhart  (Philipp),  441. 
Ulricher  (George  von  Andler),  311. 
Ungler  (Florian),  129. 
Ungut  (Mainard.),  12,  26. 
Urano  (C.  M.),  15. 
Urbain  VIII  (Pope),  282. 


V 


Vaca  (Cabe9a  de),  381. 
Vadianus  (Joachim),  91,  147  n.,  160,  161, 
190,  191,  277,  312,  342,  464. 
vel : 

Watt. 

Val  (Raphael  du  Petit),  4160. 
Valayre  (G.    de),  pseudon.   for  Charles  tie 

Bonstetten,  344. 
Valerianus  (Jo.  Pierius),  53». 


66 


506 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Valgrisi  (Vicenzo),  437. 

Valiente  (Ambrosio),  xxxviii. 

Valori  (Baccio),  62. 

Valor i- Banditti,  59".)  6o«.,  61  ».,  62  n. 

Valverde  (Vicente  de),  320  n. 

Van  der  Linden  (J.  A.),  422. 

Van  Praet  (Jos.),  no,  128,  158. 

Vapereau  (G.),  xxxii. 

Varga  (Francesco),  483. 

Vargas  (F.  M.  de),  375. 

Varnhagen  (F.  A.  de),  xlix,   60  n.,   172, 

i?3;  "74,  469- 
Varrerius,  see  Barreiros. 
Varthema   (Ludovico  de).  169,   170,  171, 

194,  253,  335' 
vel : 

Barthema. 

Ludovicus  Patricius  Romanus. 
Varibemo. 
Varomicer. 
Varonmiser. 
Varrommicer. 
Vartomanus. 
Vasaeus  (Job.),  281. 
Vasari  (Giorgio),  66, 
Vasco  da  Gama,  set  Gama. 
Vasconcellos  (Aug.  Manuel),  4«.,  6,  61  n. 

"  (P.  Simon  de),  357. 

Vasquez  (Francisco),  xl. 
Vater  (J.  S.),  xl. 
Vedia  (Enrique  de),  216,  218. 
Vega  (Gabriel  Lasso  de  la),  212. 

"     (Garcilasso  de  la),  245,  317,  383. 
"     (Lope  de),  212. 
"     (Melchior  de  la),   212. 
Vela  (Blasco  Nunez),  436. 
Velasco  (Juan  de),  319. 
"       (Luis  de),  367. 
Velascus  (Ferdinandus),  45  n. 
Velasquez  (Diego),  170,  176. 
Vera  (Pedro  de),  383. 
Veracruce  (Alph.  a),  374, 
Verardus  (Carol.),  9,  14,  17,  43,  300. 
Vercellensis  (Bernardinus),  52. 
Vercellese  (Albertino),  75,  99. 
Verde  (Simone  del),  470. 
Vergara  (Juan  de),  153,  281,  282. 

"        (Margarita  de),  256. 
Vermilli  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 
Verrano  (Paulo),  221. 
Verri  (Pietro),  25. 

Vespuccius  (Americus),  53,  55,  57,  58,  59, 
60,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  69, 
?o,  71,  7^,  73>  74>  75>  76,  77,  81,  83, 
84,  85,  88,  89,  91,  92,  93,  94,  95, 
98,  101,  102,  104,  112,  115,  116,  119, 

121,     124,     138,     142,     149,    150,     l62, 


201,    226,    238,    269,     304,     352,    426, 

45°>  4S6»  463- 
•vel : 

Despuchi,  56. 

Espuche,  56. 

Vespotius,  84,  142. 

Vespucci,  140,  149. 

Vespuccio,  56. 

Vespuce,  109,  145,  146. 

Vespuche,  56. 

Vespucius  (Albericus),  55,  57,   68, 

69,  70,  7i>  72,  73-  74>  76,  96> 
104,  184. 
Vespuchy,   56. 

Vesputius,  77,  130,  159,  165. 
Vetancurt  (A.  de),  205,  375. 
Veterano  (S.  Petro  di  Oropesa),  482. 
Veytia  (Marino),  209. 
Vianello  (Hironymo),  56. 
Viano    de    Lexona    (Bernardino    de),    24, 

218. 

Vibius  (Aug.),  159. 
Vicentinus  (Gabriel),  47. 
Victor  (Hieron.),  138,  165. 

':  (p.),  159- 

Viligas  (Gaspard),  314". 

Villa  (Jacobus  de),  26. 

Villagra  (Caspar  de),  212. 

Villagutierre    Soto-mayor    (Juan    de),    xl, 

205. 

Villalobras  (Arias),  212. 
Villanova,  see  Servetus. 
Villanueva  (Juan  de),  427. 
Villareal  (Marques  de),  440. 
Villiers  (Philippe  de),  250. 
Vitallis  (Ordericus),  261. 
Vivaldi  (Ugolin  di),  190. 
Vizcaino  (Sebastian),  xi. 
Vogt  (Charles),  Hi. 
Voltaire,  219. 
Volterranus,  see  Maffei. 
Vorstermann  (Wm),  II,  12,  73. 
Vossius  (G.  J.),  41,   54,  67  ».,  87  ».,  8.S, 

129,  137,   140,   142,    156,    161,   166, 

238,  263,  281. 


w 


Wadler,  read  and  see  Weidler. 
Wagenseil  (Joh.  Christoph.),  38. 
Walcknaer,  see  Catalogue. 
Waldeck  (Fred,  de),  211. 
Waldseemiiller,  vel  Waltzmiiller,  Waltze- 
miiller,  see  Hylacomylus. 


Index. 


507 


Wale  (Peter  de),  276. 
Warden  (David  B.),  xxv,  211. 
Watt  (Robert),  181,  437. 
Watts  (Thomas),  xv. 
Wechel  (Christianus),  299,  409 
WeidlerQ.  F.),  142*.,  181. 
Weigel  (T.  O.),  xxiv. 
Weissenburg  (Wolfgang),  351. 
Weld  (Thomas),  377. 
Wetherell  (Juan),  211. 
Weyffenburgers  (Joannis),  237. 
Weynssen  (Matthias),  309. 
Widdilove  (Rev.),  xviii. 
Wigand  (Johan.),  344. 
Wilhelm  (Karl),  261. 
Will  (G.  A.).  142. 
Willes  (Richard),  126. 

"       (William),  xxxix. 
Wilson  (R.  A.),  206. 
Winterburger  (Johannes),  162. 
Winthrop  (Go-v.  J.),  377. 
Wolff  (Thomas),  166. 
Wolgemuth  (Michael),  37,  38. 
Woltersdorf  (E.  G.),  439. 
Wright  (Thomas),  xxxiii,  344. 
Wuelfer,  vel  Wiilffer  (Joh.),  38. 
Wytefliet  (Corn.),  xii. 


X 


Xenophon,  156. 

Xerez  (Fr.  de),  245,  318,  327,  330,  424. 

Ximenez  (Francisco).  12,  368. 


Y 


Yeardly  (Go-v.),  xi. 
Yves  d'Evreux  (FatA.), 


Zaccaria  (F.  A.),  17  n. 
Zach  (Baron  de),  xlii,  3  n. 
Zaffenus  (Gregorius),  276. 
"        (Servatius),  283. 
Zamaria,  96. 
Zanetti  (B.),  352. 
Zapata  (Ludovico),  482. 
Zapf  (G.  W.),  74,  102,  174,  175. 
Zarate  (Augustin  de),  318,  321  n. 

"       (Fernando  de),  212. 
Zazzera  (Francesco),  354. 
Zeni  (N.  and  Ant.),  192,  308. 
Zeno  (Apostolo),  155,  186,  268. 
Ziegler  (J.),  60  n.,  290,   350. 
•vel : 

Ciglerus. 

Zierixcensis,  see  Amandus. 
Zorzi  (Alessandro),   2,   63,   96,  97,    104, 

H2,  114,  130,  185,  186,  187,  469. 
Zumarraga  (Fr.  Juan  de),  213  n.,  289,  303. 

396,  398,  402,  419,  423. 
Zuniga.  see  Ortiz. 
Zurita  (A.  de),  208,  213;;. 
Zurla  (D.  Placido),  75,   76,   97,   99,   128, 

192,  457. 


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PAGE  x,  line  4,  read  Petzholdt. 

Page  xxv,  /.  I,  instead  of  "  we  feel,"  read  .      We  feel. 

Page  xxvii,  /.  7,  read  cover. 

Page  xxx,  /.  49,  in  note  91,  read  pp.   249,  including  a  very  good 
index,  and  list  of  MSS.,  1152  numbers,  to  the  year  1700. 

Page  xxxi,  /.  43,  instead  of  "  full,"  read  tall. 
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Page  xxxviii,  instead  of  "  LUDWIG,"  read  LUDEWIG  ;   and  note 
1 14  should  be  in  italics. 

Page  xxxix,  note  1 20,  /.  1 6,  read  March. 

Page  xlv,  transpose  note  139  on  the  next  page  in  the  place  of  note 

140. 
Page  xlvi,  transpose  note  140  on  the  preceding  page  in  the  place 

of  note  139. 
Page  xlix,  note  158,  /.  2,  after  "  1756,"  add  3  parts  in  ;  and  read 

[FRANCK]. 

Page  I,  note  *,  instead  of  "  April  25th,"  read  April  29th. 

Page  2,  /.  7,  add  or  Palombo  (Giglio,  in  Boemus1  Gli  CostumiJ ;  I. 

12,  after  "Cugureo,"  add  (Benzoni) ;  note  2,  /.   2,  instead  of 

"  I2mo,"  read  8vo  ;  and  after  "  1614,"  add  Milan,  8vo ;  note 

3,  instead  of  "  8vo,"  read  4to. 
Page  3,   /.   2,   after  "  Albisola,"    add  (Ph.   Labbeus)  ;    /.   6,  add 

1442  (Alcedo)  ;  I.  8,  instead  of  "  orbus,"  read  ortus  ;   note  33, 

add  1581 
Page  4,  /.  10,  read  the  letter  of  Toscanelli  to  Fernan  Martins  ; 

note  50,  instead  of  "  1603,"  read  1556,  1565,  1606  ;  note  54, 

add  F.  COLOMBO,  Historic,  verso  of  fol.  31. 


510 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


Page  5,  note  59,  add  2  vols.  8vo,  1856. 

Page  6,  /.  12,  instead  of  "  When,"  read  While. 

Page  7,  /.  2,  instead  of  "  in,"  read  into  ;  /.  7,  instead  of  "  when," 
read  in  which. 

Page  8,  /.  8,  instead  of  "  incunabula"  read  incunabula. 

Page  10,  /.  15,  strike  out  "  it." 

Page  II,  note  72,  /.  17,  instead  of  "  duum,"  read  dnum. 

Page  14,  /.  29,  after  "  Amati's,"  add  Ricerche ;  note  8 1,  instead 
of  "  8vo,"  read  410  ;  note  84,  read  Trivulzio. 

Page  15,  /.  3,  add  1 6  pages  of  extracts  have  been  inserted  in  the 
Milan  edition  of  F.  Columbo's  Historie ;  L  21,  add^Nt  find 
a  translation  into  Dutch,  in  the  collection  of  CONRAD  LOEW, 
Cologne,  fol.  1598,  pp.  1-16. 

Page  24,  /.  5,  read\  ftruffimos  ;  note  I,  add  Presto  diez  y  siete 
mil  florines.  ARGENSOLA,  Anales  de  Aragon,  lib.  i,  cap.  10, 
p.  100. 

Page  34,  note  *,  instead  of  "  Didacus  Luppi,"  read  Diego  Lopez  ; 
instead  of  "  Gonzalvo  Ferdinand,"  read  Fernandez. 

Page  35,  note  J,  last  /.,  read  kings. 
Page  37,  note  *,  /.  I,  read  of  this  book. 
Page  38,  note  12,  read  Dutens's. 

Page  39,  /.,  instead  of  "  fultantes,"  read  fulcantes  ;  instead  of 
"ifi,"  read  in  ;  instead  of  "  proiciebat.,"  read  proiciebat' ;  note 
2O,  instead  of  "  1778,"  read  1779. 

Page  40,  /.  8,  instead  of  "  James  Canus,"  read  Diogo  Cam. 

Page  42,  /.  4,  instead  of 


lUtt 


note  f,  /.  i,  read  book  ;  /.  1 1,  instead  of  "  free,"  read  Imperial 
and  Royal ;  /.  12,  instead  of  "  I5th,"  read  5th. 

Page  43,  /.  i,  read  No.  13  ;  note  f,  after  "  Spains,"  read  of 
Bethica  and  Kingdom  of  Granada,  the  siege. 

Page  44,  /.  20,  instead  of  "  8vo,"  read  4to. 

Page  45,  note  *,  after  "  decent  insule"  add  [the  Azores  and  For- 
migas]  ;  col.  2,  instead  of  "  under  the  reign  of  Henry,"  read 
under  the  reign  of  Alonzo  Vth,  King  of  Portugal,  through 
his  uncle  Prince  Henry,  Duke  of  Viseo. 


Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  511 

Page  46,  /.  4,  read  maris. 

Page  47,  /.  19,  read  LILII. 

Page  48,  note  2,  read  Chaudon. 

Page  49,  /.  I,  read  uulgari. 

Page  52,  /.  17,  read  FELICITER  ;  /.  18,  readSV  ||  PERSTITI. 

Page  53,  /.  30,  instead  of  "  Decad,,"  read  Ennead. 

Page  56,  /.  2,  add  or  Emericus  (Vespuccius  himself,  ap.  Bandini, 
p.  xxviij) ;  note  16,  instead  of  "  Great,"  read  Grand. 

Page  58,  note  41,  n?tf^  Biblioteca. 

Page  59,  /.  22,  instead  of  "  1497,"  r^^  X494  (according  to  the 
inscription  on  Cabot's  map.  Cf.  D'AvEZAC,  Bulletin  de  la 
Soci'et'e  de  Geographic,  for  Oct.,  1857,  note  K>) 

Page  60,  /.  3,  after  "  (Humboldt}"  add  or  Diego  de  Lepe  (Bul 
letin  de  la  Soci'et'e  de  Geographic,  Oct.,  1858,  §  xi). 

Page  6 1,  /  2,  after  "probably,"  add  Nuno  Manuel  but  not 
under  Cabral ;  note  79,  instead  of  "  4to,"  read  8vo. 

Page  62,  note,  I.  3,  read  DE  CAZAL,  and  add  id.,  8vo,  1833;  note 
88,  read  Lyons,  1517,  and  strike  out  the  three  lines  following. 

Page  63,  /.  26,  instead  of  "  Zorzi,"  read  Fracanzio  da  Montal- 
boddo. 

Page  64,  note  102,  I.  7,  instead  of  "  Kerr,"  read  Michael  Herr. 
Page  65,  /.  19,  read  Formaleoni,  and  de  Cazal. 

Page  66,  /.  5,  read  Metellus  ;  /.  8,  instead  of  "  Genebrier,"  read 
Genebrard. 

Page  70,  /.  24,  read 

Jttunto  tunuui 

/.    28,  after  u  natura,"  add  et ;  /.  29,  instead  of  "  opa,"   read 

opa. 

Page  71,  /.  I,  Vefputius  ;  /.  4,  add  sine  anno  out  loco;  I.  16, 
add  Direct  reference:  Bright's  Catalogue,  No.  5813. 

Page  75,  /.  10,  after  "Foscarini,"  add  Delia  Lett.  Fenez.,  p.  427  ; 
after  "  Zurla,"  add  Di  Marco  Polo,  &c.,  Vol.  n,  pp.  362-5  ; 
after  u  Morelli,  add  the  learned  librarian  of  the  St.  Mark 
possessed  a  copy  of  the  work  in  1818  (Lettera  rariss.,  p.  44). 
The  Libretto  was  originally  in  the  Canonici  library. 

Page  79,  note  2,  /.  1 1,  read  fourth  voyage. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  84,  read  Von  der  Nuewen  welt. 
Page  86,  /.  2,  read  Loredano. 

Page  89,  /.  9,  strike  out  "  the  Mazarine  Library  contains  a  speci 
men  which,  so  far  as  it  goes,  is  identical  with  the  Eyries." 
(The  Mazarine  copy,  M.  D'Avezac  assures  us,  corresponds 
not  to  our  No.  44,  but  rather  to  our  No.  47.) 

Page  93,  /.  14,  instead  of  "  «  2'«W,"  read  o  r«;\or. 

Page  96b,  after  note  1 1,  insert  the  following  note  from  M.  D'Ave 
zac  : 

"  Les  amalgames  indiques  comme  possibles  le  sont  ea  effet  a 
la  rigueur,  mais  il  ne  sont  par  probables,  faute  de  motif;  tandis 
que  la  reclamation  de  Waltzemuller  contre  la  falsification  qui  se 
produisait  dans-  les  editions  (Nos.  45  et  46)  amena  la  reintegra- 
tion  des  feuillets  retranch.es  (du  No.  44)  et  la  formation  par 
cette  voie  de  1'amalgame  que  nous  avons  (No.  47).  Cette  derniere 
emission,  tout  en  conservant  la  date  du  4  des  Calendes  d?  Sep- 
tembre  1507,  ne  dut  etre  ainsi  etablie  de  fait  qu'apres  la  recla 
mation  publiee  la  veille  des  calendes  d' Avril  1508.*  Ilacomilus 
lui-meme  refit  une  nouvelle  edition  complete  en  1509,  a  Stras 
bourg  [No.  6oj,  chez  ce  meme  Griiniger  qui  avait  publie  sa 
reclamation  [first  in  the  Margarita  of  1508]." 

Page  96°,  /.  I,  instead  of  "  1552,"  read  1522;  /.  16,  instead  of 
"  the  work  is  dedicated  to  Rene  II,"  read  As  to  the  prince 
to  whom  the  letter  ascribed  to  Vespuccius  is  erroneously  ad 
dressed  (as  it  was  in  reality  written  to  Soderini) 

Page  97,  /.  23,  read  da  Cintra. 

Page  103,  /.  19,  after  u  dal,"  add  venerando  del  ordine  heremi- 

tano,  primo  auctore  aggiunte  ed  emendate insino  ;  /. 

21,  add  Georgio  de  Rusconi  ;  /.  22,  read  332  et  333. 

Page  105,  /.  19,  read  GEographia  ;  note  *,  /.  5,  after  "  and,"  add 
with  the  ;  note  i,  /.  6,  read  et  a-u. 

Page  106,  /.  21,  read  AVDEBVNT. 

Page  107,  /.  2,  instead  of  "  de  Donis,"  read  the  German  Nich 
olas  ;  note  I,  read  Bologna  ;  /.  2,  after  "  or,"  add  Vicenza. 

Page  109,  /.  15,  read  protecteur  plus  puissant. 

Page  no,  /.  27,  instead  of  "  Memoires,"  read  Bulletin;  note  9, 
read  by  Warden,  the  continuator  of. 


*  To  form  a  perfect  copy  of  the  original  sets  has  only  to  substitute  in  the  place  of 
edition  of  the  Cn.rographite  Introduct'.o  leaves  I,  a,  5  and  6  of  No.  45,  leaves  I, 
the  fortunate  owner  of  the  three  subsequent  2,  5  and  6  of  No.  47. 


Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  513 

Page  112,  /.  I,  read  Ca  da  Mosto  ;  /.  21,  instead  of  "  Zorzi," 
read  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo  ;  /.  37,  read  Brevoortiana. 

Page  113,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  Recto  of  the  second  leaf"  read,  Recto 
of  the  first  leaf  in  signature  B  ;  /.  14,  strike  out  "  First  recto 
of  signature  B  ;"  last  /.,  read  Clarevallensi  (i.e.  Clairvaux  en 
1'ordre  de  Citeaux). 

Page  115,  /.  27,  add  BIDDLE,  Memoire  of  Seb.  Cabot  (pp.  239, 
251,  corrects  many  mistakes  in  Madrignano's  translation). 

Page  120,  /.  4,  after  "edition,"  assays  Brunet  (Vol.   n,  col. 


Page  125,  note  19,  read  conocido  en  esta. 

Page  1  28,  note  *,  instead  of  "  Instrucio"  read  Introducio  ;  instead 
of  "  manductionum,"  read  manuductionem  ;  instead  of  "  vosi- 
gena,"  read  vogesigena. 

Page  132,  /.  6,  read  Afcenfeum. 
Page  137,  /.  13,  read  Novara. 

Page  138,  /.  5,  read  TC/  ||  fertU. 

Page  143,  /.  20,  instead  of  "  GEORGES,"  read  GREGORY. 

Page  146,  /.  22,  read  ItOUUellemft  J   /.  24,  instead  of  "  xix," 

read  XIX. 
Page  147,  transpose  "  No.  85"  under  the  year  "  1510;"  /.  2,  read 

tap  ||  ttfte. 

Page    152,    note  *,  read  to  thee,   pilot   Tiphys  !    and  instead   of 
"Nebris,"  read  Lebrija. 

Page  154,  call  "  No.  88,"  88  bis. 

Page  155,  note  *,  instead  of  "  Octavius,"  read  Octavianus  ;  in 
stead  of  "  October,"  read  November. 

Page  156,  note  7,  read  Giovio. 

Page  157,  /.  6,  read  auctioribus  ;  note  19,  /.  8,  read  douer  ;  /.  9, 
read  guadagno. 

Page  161,  /.  15,  after  "  Agricola,"  add  (sine  anno  in  this  edition, 
but  dated  1512  in  those  of  1522  and  1540). 

Page  162,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  fljltablif,"  read  fflftbiij. 
Page  163,  /.  13,  add  New  York. 

Page  164,  /.  17,  read  nofcere  ;  /.  24,  read  uifa  ;  /.  25,  read  uidebis. 
Page  165,  /.  17,  read  Christo. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  166,  /.  10,  read  inuentore. 

Page  167,  /.  12,  instead  of  nos,  read  uos  ;  note  *,  strike  out  "  for 

us." 

Page  177,  /.  3,  instead  of  "  ^ttgltftfll,"  read  WUfjltttrtt. 
Page  181,  No.  108,  read  UOATlS'mPA. 
Page  182,  /.  3,  read  Enarrationibus. 
Page  1 86,  /.  25,  instead  of"  Fontanelli,"  read  Fontanini. 

Page  187,  /.  7,  ra7<^  Fracanzio  da  Monte  Alboddo  ;  /.  23,  read 
IOANNI  CATANAEO. 

Page  191,  /.  13,  read  Cautum ;  I.  28,  instead  of  "for,"  read  fort. 
Page  194,  /.  1 6,  read  one  hundred  and  three  +  one  unnumbered 
blank  leaf. 

Page  200,  /.  9,  after  "fez,"  add\\ ;  /.  17,  read  iucudlllime  ; 
/.  26,  instead  of  "  X,"  read  &. 
208,  /.  9,  read  Gongora. 

211,  note  95,  read  Cites  et  Ruines  Am'ericaines,  Paris,   8vo, 
and  Atlas  fol.  1863. 

Page  212,  /.  14,  instead  of  "  J.  L.  Maneiro,"  read  J.  A.  Maneiro. 

Page  218,  /.  12,  instead  of  "  No.  19,"  read  119  ;  note  138,  /.  2, 
instead  of  "  who,"  read  which. 

Page  220,  /.  13,  strike  out  "  with  no  little  emphasis." 

Page  222,  /.  8,  read  fin. 

Page  225,  /.  13,  read  Figueiro. 

Page  227,  /.  II,  read  Estevan  ;  /.  23,  read  Virgenes. 

Page  228,  /.  24,  instead  of  "  was,"  read  were  ;  /.  25,  read  seem. 

Page  229,  /.  3,  after  "the,"  add  tract. 

Page  242,  /.  18,  instead  of"  No.  128,"  read  No.  129. 

Page  243,  /.•  5  and  6,  place  a  contraction  over  the  "  q"  ;  /.  7, 
read  Deditione ;  1.  8,  read  Paradiji^  and  miliarum ;  note  *,  instead 
of  "  Dedicated  to  Pope  John,"  read  Concerning  the  dominions 
of  Prester  John. 

Page  251,  note  13,  /.  2,  after  "  siecle,"  add  [abbe  Pingret  ?] 
Page  255,  /.  14, 


Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  515 

Page  260,  read 


ucllcmct  ^ 
a  flam  |*aj|itdU  fait 


IBt  ce  benfcent  a  partis  pat  TOeltppe  It 

1.  30,  read 

Nortoegfte  eft  une  gratre  region  attife  trettouft 

tre  pol  Ercttque. 

261,  /.  i,  read  cfjanatf  ;  /.  6,  rw  (^rottellent  et 
Unttnarcf)  on  a  grat 

262,  /.  ii,  read  de  suivre. 
Page  269,  transpose  "  No.  147"  after  "  No.  149." 

Page  273,  /.  5,  rw  13alleartu. 

Page  276,  /.  2O,  read  novus  Orbis  ;  note  I,  m?*/  Bulletin  de  la 
Soci'ete  de  Geogr. 

Page  282,  /.  50,  instead  of  "  do  Martir,"  read  de  Martir. 

Page  286,  add  contractions  over  the  last  e  in  "  nouuellemet"  and 
over  the  a  in  "  Fernad"  (We  are  also  inclined  to  think  that 
in  lines  4,  9,  12,  "  ou"  should  read  au.} 

Page  292,  /.  IO,  add  Folio. 

Page  306,  make  two  separate  items  out  of  "No.  180,"  one 
Paris,  the  other  Frib.  Brisg. 

Page  307,  /.  9,  read  ofler  ||  uanza. 

Page  317,  /.  18,  after  "  sow,"  add  (Gomara). 

Page  319,  note  1  6,  instead  of  "  p.  240,"  read  p.  204. 

Page  325,  /.  2,  read 


tmMtocttig 


326,  /.  3,  rw  bre^jfigten 

327,  /.  i,  r^<^  Xerez. 


516  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  328,  /.  37,  instead  of  "  leros,"  read  lexos. 
Page  329,  /.  14,  strike  out  one  of  the  two  g  pt)t 


3,  rv^  EspaHoles. 
Page  330,  r^rf^  Xerez  and  Gaztelu. 
Page  331,  «<?/*  I,  /.  38,  read  otra. 
Page  332,  /.  7,  n?fl^  Contradura. 

333  7-  3°>  read  (M-  A-) 

340,  note  7,  /.  3,  rawf  Siciliano. 

Page  341,  /.  16,  read  VNIVERSALIS  ;  /.  17,  read  MODERNORVM. 

Page  342,  /.  4,  raft/  meminere,  Elencho  ;  /.  5,  ra?^  loachimum  ; 
/.  12,  after  "on,"  ado1  verso  of;  /.  19,  raz;/  tralatione  ;  L  20, 
ra?^  Mi-||chaele  ;  /.  25,  instead  of  varijo,  read  vari  and  ^^ 
the  contraction  for  que. 

Page  343,  /.  5,  read  LECTORI  .  S  .  ||  ;  /.  7,  read  Brixienfi,  Bili- 
baldus  ;  /.  16  read  offira  ;  /.  17,  read  zinciber'  ;  /.  2O,  read 
Accole  loco  panis  vescunt  ;  /.  21,  read  p'referentibus  ;  /.  33, 
read  ijsabella  [}ic~\  ;  I.  24,  read  Canibales. 

Page  344,  /.  2,  read  Villanova  ;  /.  3,  read  Tudela. 

Page  353,  strike  out  note  *.  (Stoeffler's  work  does  not  contain 
anything  relating  to  America.) 

Page  355,  /.  14,  instead  of  "  QVALI.,"  read  QVAL  ;  /.  20,  read 
Con. 

Page  357,  note  *,  /.  6,  instead  of  u  November,"  read  March. 
Page  358,  /.  7,  after  "  New  York,"  add  Brooklyn  ;  and  insert  : 

22^   OlS*     RITHATMERUS  (GEORG.)  —  "  De  Ofbis  ter- 

rarum  situ  compendium.     Norimbergae  [apud  Pe- 
trejum  ;  scripsit  Viennaef]  410.  i  grav.  en  bois. 
"  P.  in.,  de  terris  et  insults  nuper  repertis." 

(Brockhaus  Catalogue,  1866.) 

Page  362,  /.  13,  after  "  page,"  add  305  ;  /.  24,  read  pingui. 

Page  364,  /.  14,  read  fifty-five  ;  /.  21,  add  on  the  Gulf  of  St. 
Lawrence,  we  read  the  curious  inscription,  as  yet  unex 
plained  :  "  Per  hoc  fretum  iter  patet  ad  Molucas" 

Page  366,  /.  31,  read  escrivio  ;  /.  34,  read  RELIGIOSO. 


•j-  Vossius,  de  Mathesi,  page  149. 


Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  517 

Page  370,  /.  25,  after  "  No.  232,"  add  (the  only  copy  known  of 
this  curious  book  exists  only  in  fragments.  These  are  pre 
served  in  the  library  of  Senor  Vera,  at  Madrid). 

Page  374,  /.  4,  strike  out  "  OF." 
Page  375,  make  one  work  of  the  last  two  Molinas. 
Page  378,  /.  27,  read  toto  ;  /.  30,  read  adierit. 
Page  379,  /.  33,  read  GRAESSE*. 

Page  387,  strike  out  lines  5  and  6.  (The  treatise  is  only  ad 
dressed  to  Schoner,  while  the  authorship  is  generally  ascribed 
to  Rheticus,  /'.  *.,  Geo.  Joachimus.) 

Page  400,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  FRISIUS,"  read  GEMMA  or  REYNIER. 
Page  403,  /.  20,  read  Ventis. 
Page  404,  /.  22,  read  Ingelheim. 
Page  427,  No.  281,  read 


|*ibr0  to  (jrmtfrejfl*  t) 


nuebo 

fecjo  g  copilafto  pot  el  fEaeftro  ^etrro  II 
tre  ftletrtna  bettnn  tre  geuilia.  litrtgttro 
ai  Serenittimo  2  mug  efclaredtro 
DON  FILIPE  ^rtncipe  t»e  ISfpana, 


.  rbiij  . 


(Kindly  communicated  by  M.  D'AVEZAC.) 

Page  431,  /.  16,  strike  out  one  of  the  two  Hi's. 
Page  440,  strike  out  note  *.f 

444,  «o/^  2,  /.  6,  r<?^^  Schreckenfuchsii. 


t  We  had  the  work  examined  in  Paris,  picked   up  at  a   book-stall  IOAN.    NICOL. 

and  the  report  is  that  JAC.  GOUPYL'S  French  STUPANO'S  version  of  the  same  work  (Ba- 

version  of  ALEX.  PICCOLOMINI'S  Sfera  del  silat  af>.  Petrum  Pernam,  1568,  410,  1  oil.  + 

Mondo   does  not  contain  anything  relating  150  pp.),  which  gives  on  p.  114  a  descrip- 

to  America.      Yet,  as  late  as  yesterday,  we  tion  of  several  of  the  West-India  islands. 


r  1  8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  446,  /.  30,  read  Scriptores  ;  I.  33,  read  exactis  ;  /.  36,  read 
Linguam;  /.  37,  read  comparavit  ;  /.  41,  read  refert  ;  /.  42, 
read  Evangeliorum. 

Page  447,  /.  24,  instead  of  "  on,"  read  ou. 

Page  452,  /.  28,  instead  of  "  nunc,"  read  num. 

Page  453,  /.  9,  read  Olivano  ;  /.  12,  read  artes  ;  /.  13,  instead  of 

"  cui,"  read  Cui  ;  /.  15,  read  comprabatus  ;  /.  17,  read  Gravis- 

simae,  efficacissimae. 

Page  454  ,  /.  28,  instead  of  "  Archinsi,"  read  Archinti  ;  /.  29, 
read  jEgidii  ;  in  the  note,  read  reso  talmente,  Richerche. 

Page  457,  /.  2,  after  1553,  add  [1556  ?]. 
Page  458,  last  word,  instead  of 


tttjtnitce! 


Page  461,  /.  I,  read  1  6  bis  ;  /.  24,  read  Lilio  ;  note  I,  /.  5,  read 
stampa. 

Page  462,  colophon  of  22  bis  should  be  in  Roman  characters  ;  /. 
15,  instead  of  "  Imperial,"  read  Private  ;  /.  28,  strike  out 
"  above  a  large  vignette."  [The  vignette  is  between  lines  2 
and  3  of  our  p.  463]. 

Page  463,  lines  6  and  7  should  be  in  Roman  characters. 

Page  464,  /.  i,  in  No.  108  bis,  substitute  the  following  title,  just 
received  from  the  British  Museum  : 

Recto  of  A,  i  : 

c  S  wf  w  tntevMe  and  a  wwg  of  itoe  n 

nature  of  tije  .  iiij.  elementr  treclargnge  mang 
pro  ||  per  pmntr  of  pftglofopfjg  natural!  iantr  of 
trguers  ||  ftraunge  lantrgs  i  antr  of  trgueris  ftraunge 
ef  ectr  r  ||  caufte  i  ........ 

Page  465,  instead  of  the  title  in  No.  290,  substitute  the  follow 
ing,  copied  from  the  printed  original  just  discovered  in  the 
reserve  of  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris,  and  kindly  communi 
cated  by  M.  D'Avezac  : 


Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  519 

tv  of  the  firs 
arms  of  the 

relaciotl: 


290.     ALBENINO   (N.)—Rectv  of  the  first  leaf,   within  a 
border,  and  above  a  woodcut  of  the  arms  of  the  Duke  of  Areas  : 


en  los 

e  prmutt-||cias  fll  pmiitrelre  la  g  trail  a 
fit  bi  l&eg  ISlafco  ||  mines  belaifjafta  ei  tress 
tatato  2  muerte  t»e  gon  ||  caio  ^icarro.  («v)  || 

The  title  given  on  page  465,  is  on  the  verso  of  the  original. 


These  are  the  errors  and  omissions  which,  up  to  the 
present  date,  have  come  to  our  knowledge.  Should  some  of 
those  which  have  doubtless  escaped  our  notice  be  discovered  in 
time,  a  supplement  will  be  issued.  Meanwhile,  it  may  prove 
interesting  to  the  reader  to  be  informed  that  the  proof-sheets  of 
the  present  work  have  been  read  by  four  careful  proof-readers. 

We  also  avail  ourselves  of  the  present  opportunity  to  express 
our  thanks  for  the  skill  displayed  by  Mr.  JOHN  N.  SUTHERLAND, 
the  compositor  engaged  in  the  execution  of  this  work. 

Iterium  vale. 


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